Well its me again with yet another question to baffle you all :). I am moving to meduim format and thus I bought a Yashica D for that purpose. I want to be able to get some info for it and its advantages (I know what you are going to say, but I did not have thousands of dollars to spend on a mamiya or the sort). Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Nauman

-- Nauman Saghir (nsaghir@hotmail.com), December 14, 2000

Answers

Stop down to f:8 or f:11 and your lens is as good as the latest Hassleblad Planar (at least near the center). Be gentle with your camera, it cannot stand the hard abuse that Rolleis could. Expect many years of pleasure using it.

-- Bill Mitchell (bmitch@home.com), December 14, 2000.

Great camera. I use a Yashica C all the time. Again, the thing to remember is that you can use the cheapest camera to get the world's greatest photos. It all depends on the photographer.

chris

-- Christian Harkness (chris.harkness@eudoramail.com), December 14, 2000.

Enjoy the camera. At f/8 or f/11, they provide wonderful pictures. Check home.att.net/~j..harper/front.html for more details about the YashicaMats. Cheers, DJ.

-- N Dhananjay (ndhanu@umich.edu), December 14, 2000.

I did the same thing, picked up a nice Yashica D to try medium format.

The biggest thing is to develop a routine. Since film winding and shutter cocking are two different actions, it is easy to advance a blank frame, or double expose a frame.

The routine I use is to always advance the film immediately after releasing the shutter.

Also tape or glue the X - M lever to X. Moving the self timer with the flash sync in M can lock the shutter. Plus unless you have a source of flash bulbs, you will not be using the M position anyway.

-- Terry Carraway (TCarraway@compuserve.com), December 15, 2000.

The focusing screen can be vastly improved with one from Maxwell Precision Optics. (404) 224-0095.

-- Chris Ellinger (ellinger@umich.edu), December 15, 2000.