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on Feb 24, 2017 14:24:46 GMT
Posted: Feb 24, 2017 14:24:46 GMT
Today I received the most perfect Yashica Reflex 35 camera kit I have ever seen - it is mint. It's late owner evidently took great care of it and I've not come across anything like it with not a scratch to be found. Even the lens hood and filter are immaculate. But what really surprised me was the least significant object in the camera case - a very old piece of tissue paper!
It is the first time I have come across the original Yashica filter guide, printed at the end of the 1950s, on a single side of a sheet of sub-A4 tissue paper. Any amount of normal handling tended to destroy them so to find one in apple-pie order is a real surprise; also pleasing is the quality of the guide and the English language in which it's presented.
Anyhow, I've attached a scan of the sheet so feel free to print it if you wish...
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on Feb 25, 2017 1:53:14 GMT
Posted: Feb 25, 2017 1:53:14 GMT
I found it much easier to change shutter speed, thus keeping the Sunny-16 conventions in order. This sheet having been written before the advent of the G line of cameras (and their Aperture Priority metering systems), it gives no adjustment of ASA figures. I may have one of those sheets around here in a file folder. I know I have gotten some with other brands of filters.
PF
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on Feb 25, 2017 4:49:32 GMT
Posted: Feb 25, 2017 4:49:32 GMT
I found it much easier to change shutter speed, thus keeping the Sunny-16 conventions in order. This sheet having been written before the advent of the G line of cameras (and their Aperture Priority metering systems), it gives no adjustment of ASA figures. I may have one of those sheets around here in a file folder. I know I have gotten some with other brands of filters. PF As always, you make a good point. My joy with this sheet of tissue paper is just that - tissue paper surviving in near perfect condition after more than 50 years. I have lots of thin paper sheets with filter data on them from the 60s and 70s including almost all of the Contax ones from the 1970s but even those which have only been opened once have worse fold-marks than the thin, semi-transparent Yashica sheet of 1958 vintage. Sometimes, it's the little things that can bring unexpected pleasure... OK - maybe I should get a life.... |
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on Feb 26, 2017 3:22:28 GMT
Posted: Feb 26, 2017 3:22:28 GMT
It's good to find joy in the little things. Those old sheets in pristine condition are rare to come by these days.
PF
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on Nov 17, 2018 22:43:08 GMT
Posted: Nov 17, 2018 22:43:08 GMT
Talking about filter, can someone please tell me if a yellow Y2 filter has any effect on a colour film.
Thanks
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on Nov 18, 2018 3:22:13 GMT
Last Edit: Nov 18, 2018 3:23:00 GMT by lumiworx
Color filters will have a distinct effect on every standard color or b&w film ever made. They can also have a similar effect in a digital workflow when the camera has been set to use any of its preset or custom-set color balance profiles. It might be from the 1950s, but the Kodak reference guide can be helpful for some of the details... archive.org/details/KodakReferenceHandbook/page/n139 |
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