I some how ended up with a Yashica Electro GSN the other day. Well, it belonged to Ray, he traded it with Dan, and Dan traded it with me. I gave it a tune up, checked the “pad of death”, cleaned it thoroughly, and quickly shot test roll.
Equipment
- Yashica Electro 35 GSN
- Ilford HP5+
- Kodak TMAX developer standard dilution, rotary
unniest photo I’ve took in a while. I can not stop laughing at the Pizza Hut Sign. Click on it make it bigger and see for yourself. “Everything is so expensive nowadays.”
Random girl doing coloring contest at the easter egg hunt.
The Easter bunny got a huge hat.
Someone took my hat and glasses! Probably looks better on her anyways.
Almost looks like I got tilt shift. Probably the neg wasn’t flat on the scanner or the R25 is smudged. Or could it be the DOF of f1.7?
Impression
- Feels very nice in hand
- Modern “On/Off” Switch – the lock and unlock is right at the shutter button
- Bright range finder with parallax correction
- Very Sharp and capable Lens – The Yashinon DX 45mm f1.7, a little bit wider is always a plus
- Accurate meter that goes up to ISO 1000, fairly high ISO for its time
- The over / under expose light are easily read inside the view finder and on top of the camera
- Dependable Copal leaf shutter, up to 1/500 with X Sync at hot shoe and sync plug
- The sensor is not on top of the lens inside the filter thread. When you put a filter on, you will have to adjust the ISO
- The camera is aperture priority, even though it worked flawlessly, It bugs me for not knowing what exact shutter speed I was using
- Originally it uses a weird battery, good thing it came with an adapter, so it uses the same battery as a Nikkormat EL, Mamiya RZ, or an AE1, you can find the adapter separately online for a very reasonable price
- I highly recommend this camera, given if the price is reasonable
Click for more samples form this camera
Straight, No Chaser. 
The school bus shot is interesting. It does look like something was a little off somewhere.
I say it was probably my negative wasn’t flat, but it was quite a pleasant effect for that frame :D. I didn’t mind at all!
love this camera! it take awesome photos!
It sure does, i just have to finish the roll in it.
Nice set of photos.
The Electro is a very nice rangefinder camera to use.
Indeed my friend. Thanks for stopping by.
I got one a month ago, refurbished and all. It is an awesome camera, a little soft wide open though. Very modern in lay-out and indeed over and under exposure is easy to read.
Unfortunately the camera broke down yesterday after having experienced some trouble with the shutter button, some negs superimposed due to incorrect film transport and finally the film advance lever died.
Great loss as it was quickly becoming one of my favourite camera’s. The guy who sold it to me is taking it back for repair.
I am glad that guy takes it back and fix it for you, that’s a good seller right there.
I didn’t think it was soft wide open, however I might have just got too used to it.