Meet my newest acquisition, a Yashica 12 TLR. I just gave it a thorough cleaning and plan on running some film through it in the next day or two; hopefully there are no major problems!
Above Beijing Mist
9 hours ago
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Yashica 12
Meet my newest acquisition, a Yashica 12 TLR. I just gave it a thorough cleaning and plan on running some film through it in the next day or two; hopefully there are no major problems!
6 comments:
This is absolutely beautiful. Looks to be in remarkably good shape too! Congrats!
I loved those old TLRs. Uses 120 film, right. Big negatives!
Stacey,
It is in good shape, cosmetically anyway, especially for a 51 year old camera. (I don't know exactly when this one was made, but they only made the 12 model from 1967-68.)
Sal,
Yep, 120. That was pretty much my main reason for getting it; other than horrible Chinese plastic toys this is one of the cheaper routes to big beautiful negs. :)
Thanks for the comments!
Brent
And a beautiful shot!
Thanks Wes. :)
Update for those interested:
I ran some film through this bad boy today. They were pretty good, but there was a halo/glow effect around highlights and a general fogginess across the negative.
I took a closer look at the taking lens and saw a ton of oil deposits from the shutter (apparently a common problem with Yashica TLRs).
I removed the front bezel and the front element of the taking lens, opened up the aperture, held the shutter open with a duct-taped release cable, and swabbed the gunk off the front of the rear element with some Q-tips and naphtha.
It looks like this crud has been building up awhile and has etched the lens element a bit, but it is still far clearer than it was before (I couldn't get all the oil off the outer edge of the lens, but I can't imagine a little bit out there would hurt too much). I'll run some more film through tomorrow.
How exactly did u clean the rear lense? If i open mine there is a glass in front of the shutter. I can't get past that....
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