This is why Medium Format film is so amazing.

I recently got myself an Epson V500 scanner to scan my film. No more half-ass rigs with my digital camera. What a difference. I was scanning some of my 120 medium format film and started to blow them up a bit to see how good they came out and found this. A picture inside a picture, pretty cool. The negative was scanned at 2400 dpi and it was shot with a Yashica A on Fuji Acros 100 film.

Picture of a Vintage Chevy at a car show taken with a Yashica A.

Look closer.

Here's me taking the shot with the Yashica A and a fill flash. Pretty amazing.

Thanks for watching.

Gerry :)

My Yashica A, a review.

I've been wanting a Yashica TLR for a long time and I recently found a sweet deal. The A is the most basic of the Yashica TLRs but also the cheapest. I got my hands on mine for $70 and everything seems to work fine.

It is really basic, it has no light meter and a cold shoe (That's an anchor for a flash but isn't powered, you need a cable.) The viewfinder is pretty dim compared to my Voigtlander but it has a nice grid for composition. The camera is flawless and operates smoothly. I love the focusing mechanism where the entire front of the camera moves instead of flimsy gears that connect the taking and viewing lens. The worry with those is that they might come out of sync. No such problem with the Yashica as both move in unison.

I tossed in a roll of Kodak Tmax 100 120 film and came up with these. Not great photography but good examples of what it can do. Stay tuned for more in the near future.

Thanks for watching.

Gerry :)