Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Yashica 12

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!
Posted by Brent at Wednesday, June 10, 2009
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10 comments:

  1. Stacey6/10/09, 12:14 PM

    This is absolutely beautiful. Looks to be in remarkably good shape too! Congrats!

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  2. Salsero6/10/09, 1:46 PM

    I loved those old TLRs. Uses 120 film, right. Big negatives!

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  3. Brent6/10/09, 2:05 PM

    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

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  4. Wes Crosswhite6/10/09, 7:42 PM

    And a beautiful shot!

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  5. Brent6/11/09, 12:50 AM

    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.

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  6. Anonymous10/15/11, 7:20 AM

    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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  7. Zta4/21/12, 1:51 PM

    That brown neckstrap look really good! Where did you get it? I'd like one similar for my Yashica 635.

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  8. Anonymous4/25/12, 5:35 AM

    i've got one.. given to me by my mom from her grandfather.. hope its still running..
    -mark

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  9. Anonymous4/25/12, 5:41 AM

    is the battery still available?
    -mark

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  10. lovinglife3/15/13, 8:57 PM

    Well good news is I got the batery for this camera , just bought last 6 piece from local battery shop

    Bad news is : i live in indonesia

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