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on Jan 18, 2021 14:17:20 GMT
Last Edit: Jan 18, 2021 14:19:59 GMT by biggles3
OK folks - I admit this one has me stumped! I have a couple of meters of this style from the 1950/60s but until this one appeared I had never seen one with a Yashica logo on it so I grabbed it to share with you; does anyone know its Yashica product name? I can't find any reference to it in any of my Yashica literature from this period though I don't have brochures for the YE or YF.  rare light meterIt's pictured here on my YE which appears to be contemporaneous with the meter. Any ideas guys??? One thing I particularly like on the Yashica model is the ability to remove the cold-shoe support and use it simply hanging from one's neck with the lanyard; my others of this type don't share this ergonomic nicety. |
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on Jan 18, 2021 15:24:57 GMT
Posted: Jan 18, 2021 15:24:57 GMT
Is that a CDS meter?  |
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on Jan 18, 2021 15:39:24 GMT
Posted: Jan 18, 2021 15:39:24 GMT
Is that a CDS meter? Yes - it takes a 1.3v battery; thank goodness for an endless supply of Wein Cell replacements for the old mercury ones. |
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on Jan 18, 2021 16:08:57 GMT
Last Edit: Jan 18, 2021 16:09:45 GMT by xkaes
That certainly makes it ahead of its time -- whatever it is. Nice find!!!
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on Jan 18, 2021 18:21:16 GMT
Posted: Jan 18, 2021 18:21:16 GMT
Compared to what I've seen of Yashica's standalone meters, this looks like alien technology. At first glance I'd think it was slightly similar to a Tewe polyfocus viewfinder with it's cylindrical shape, until the needle window shows up to give it's true purpose. Does it have any 'Cine' markings for 8mm use? I've usually seen Yashica's meters with a "YEM-" prefix to a number (i.e., YEM-35), and optionally with "Super" suffixes, as model designators. The only 'named' meters I'm aware of are the 1959ish Automat models, in the traditional rectangular forms. This one breaks all the norms, with only the font set to give any indication of it's slot in the timeline. The text is the early san-serif style that seems to put it somewhere into the mid '60's, and into the '70's era. There's one exception on naming, where one meter had no given name or model number... the "Clip on meter for the Penta J" went without one, presumably because it was only usable on one very specific body. ( 1970 dealer brochure, from yashicatlr.com) |
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on Jan 18, 2021 18:57:36 GMT
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How is it attached? That might indicate what model(s) it was designed for.
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on Jan 18, 2021 21:08:10 GMT
Last Edit: Jan 18, 2021 21:27:39 GMT by biggles3
Hi Guys, There are no cine markings on the meter. It has a mounting leg to attach to the cold/hot shoe, like some of the early Yashica clip-on meters and most flash-guns, which unusually is on a detachable ring. This gives you the option of camera mounting or hand-holding via the long lanyard which is permanently attached at the rear to the battery cover. And when attached to the camera's hot/cold shoe, the ring can be adjusted to use the meter in portrait mode. From both an engineering and an ergonomic perspective, it is very easy to use. I particularly like the fact that there are click-stops at half intervals throughout; the tumblers are incredibly smoooooth. I have a couple of Kopil shoe-mounted barrel light-meters which operate in much the same way but the engineering quality of this larger, Yashica-branded meter is far superior.  Kopil and YashicaThe piccie shows the respective Kopil (left) and Yashica (right) barrel meters and their mounting legs. |
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on Jan 18, 2021 23:32:10 GMT
Last Edit: Jan 18, 2021 23:40:46 GMT by ridgeblue99
This is the first time I've seen a Yashica meter like that, though I've seen the Kopil one many years ago. It sure is a nice looking piece. Does it seem accurate, and can you figure out what it's field of view is? Looking on eBay I see a Yashica Cine meter that is about the same size as your Kopil but has heavily knurled rings.
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on Jan 19, 2021 1:30:49 GMT
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This is the first time I've seen a Yashica meter like that, though I've seen the Kopil one many years ago. It sure is a nice looking piece. Does it seem accurate, and can you figure out what it's field of view is? Looking on eBay I see a Yashica Cine meter that is about the same size as your Kopil but has heavily knurled rings. PF Hi. It's about half a stop off consistently but I haven't tried to re-calibrate it yet. As for its field of view, I'll have to devise a few home-made tests and will get back to you... I wonder when another will turn up? |
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on Jan 19, 2021 1:44:36 GMT
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40-45° would be a good guess. I would also guess it is from the mid 60's.
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on Apr 15, 2021 16:39:13 GMT
Last Edit: Apr 15, 2021 16:55:59 GMT by lumiworx
Here's one that might be shaped the same, but has a different purpose.  ... and it's considerably smaller too.The front screw-in cap to the left is 27mm in diameter, or slightly larger than a US Quarter-dollar. It uses a selenium cell, and has a black and clear plastic honeycomb divided lens over it that doesn't match the simpler 'bubble front' cells used on the other Yashica meters that were similarly powered. This one is fully working, and seems to be accurate. As far as the maker goes, I hit a dead end of sorts. Underneath the black rear cap that unscrews (it's meant to optionally screw into a turret hole), there's a printed sticker that has both the Japanese and US patent numbers. I found the US patents for it (applied, 1958 - granted, 1960), but the searchable Japanese database only goes back to 1974/75. I suspect there might have been an 'assigment' in the Japanese data that could have lead to a manufacturer, but there wasn't anything from the US data to lead to one. Japanese Patent # 136278, US Patent # 2,959,093, granted to Mamoru Harada  |
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