I've just purchased a Yashica Mat and having difficulties setting the ISO of the film. In the instruction book it shows the control to set the ISO on the focus dial. On my Yashica it has a dial with a window that changes through Empty, Tung R, Day R, Day N, B+W. Can anyone help with this one. Cheers.

-- Steve Whittaker (whittaker@free-internet.co.uk), June 29, 2001

Answers

Unless your Yashicamat has a meter, there is no need to (and no way to) change the ISO setting. The dial you describe is simply a memo display so that you always know what type of film you have loaded in the camera, or whether it's empty.

-- Matthew M Smith (matthewmsmith@yahoo.com), July 20, 2001.

>Unless your Yashicamat has a meter, there is no need to (and no way to) change the ISO setting. The dial you describe is simply a memo display so that you always know what type of film you have loaded in the camera, or whether it's empty.

-- Matthew M Smith (matthewmsmith@yahoo.com), July 20, 2001. >

Mathew wrote the above, this is nonsense. If you could not set the ISO on a camera, why would we need more than one film speed?

The Yashica Mat124G has a small dial on the front of the view finder next to the exposure meter on the right hand side. It goes from ASA 25 to ASA 400. A good reliable camera with a great lens, too bad it is so hard to find lens adapters for this camera.

Cheers

-- Richard Ullakko (ully@nwlink.com), July 22, 2002.