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on Jan 23, 2014 2:22:10 GMT
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Lesson learned, I hope! Usually this is one of the mistakes you only make once. Enjoy the camera and hopefully you can post some pics soon.
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on Mar 12, 2014 13:28:13 GMT
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I have several and I bet I have bought and sold 20 or so.
If there are any doubts about one of these working correctly, send it to b1bmsgt.
We assume that newbies know what we learned in the 60's. "I wondered what the little button on the bottom was for?"
I remember my grandfather saying "any fool can learn by experience, if he lives."
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on Mar 12, 2014 17:03:25 GMT
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Did did the same thing with my first roll on my Minister II last weekend. I took it to the guy in my local Jessops lab and he said "No problem, happens every so often" then stuck the camera in a changing bag and got it out into what he called and "intermediate" cartridge. Job done! Congrats on the Electro - I love my "G"
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on Apr 5, 2014 20:46:25 GMT
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In the era of film, the most fun feature of my Yashica Electro 35 GSN was the no fuss auto exposure in low light that is optimized for hand held snaps. Here are friends in Grand Rapids on New Year's in 2001. And LV 2 light in the Studio 28 parking lot in 1997 was no obstacle to me. Attachments:
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on Apr 27, 2014 4:59:08 GMT
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Look what the Master Sergeant at CameraRefurb did for me! I am so glad to have this camera back in condition like this. Attachments:
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on May 4, 2014 4:33:01 GMT
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I put Fuji 200 in this GSN and went for a walk in the sunset and twilight. The entire roll is now done and ready for mailing to North Coast Photo. The experience is just so pleasant; I do need to check the settings more though.
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on May 4, 2014 14:10:07 GMT
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Yeah, one can get wrapped up in the moment, and completely ignore the settings. Like, "I wonder how long the yellow light has been on?" Been there before with a GX. Luckily, film latitude, and camera metering will save most mistakes.
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on May 4, 2014 21:37:44 GMT
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Not with this GSN, but I could play with a Canon FT and use up the film without realizing it.
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on May 7, 2014 2:09:40 GMT
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The film advance is smooth and rather quiet now. I can hold the shutter release to mute the thunk that these cameras ought to be famous for. There is no mistaking when there is film in this; the feel and even the heft is different. I decided on stylistic integrity by not using a soft button or black ring for the lens.
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on May 16, 2014 10:26:05 GMT
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I have scans and prints back from North Coast Photo. 18 inch prints are a bit impressive if I may say so myself. The 17 million pixels from the Electro 35 GSN frames of film have good pixel to pixel contrast. (Due to the anti-alias filter and Bayer interpolation, most digital cameras do not naturally have this level of contrast pixel to pixel, only about 10 percent.) This camera is just well mannered. That walk in the sunset inspired me to snap a photo every 150 feet or so. They're on Fujifilm 200. I adjusted the black level on the sunset picture; but this is easy to do.
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on May 19, 2014 2:43:11 GMT
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You've got it working good now.
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on May 20, 2014 13:30:37 GMT
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Yes indeed, I think it is competing very well for a chance at the film in my freezer.
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on Jul 10, 2014 18:38:32 GMT
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This is Lake Michigan at Kirk Park. It's less powerful than the great North Atlantic Ocean to be sure - actually a relaxing place in good weather. My refurbished Yashica Electro 35 GSN enabled these, with Kodak Ektar 100 film and scanning at 17 million pixels by North Coast Photo.
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on Jul 11, 2014 4:59:06 GMT
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It's possible to underexpose in the shade with this Electro 35 camera, as I did on a few shots, by setting the ISO compensation incorrectly to 200 from 100; no compensation here is necessary with this camera. For exposure guidance, the red arrow lights up as soon as the automatic shutter hits the maximum speed of 1/500th of a second. And the yellow arrow lights as a caution at 1/45th of a second and below. I took some strongly backlit pictures while reducing the ISO rating to 50 from 100 in order to compensate. The (automatic) scans were really dark though. Is it possible to scan such a negative? I tried to save this scan in GIMP with reduced saturation and a very nonlinear contrast curve. Attachments:
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on Jul 12, 2014 3:54:36 GMT
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I think you will find that a hood will help immensely when doing those medium sun angle shots. It all depends too on what you are exposing for, the highlights, or shadow.
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