Πέμπτη 16 Απριλίου 2015

Yashica TL-Electro, a simple and efficient SLR

The Yashica TL-Electro is a simple SLR with manual metering. You decide of the aperture and the speed to use and the camera shows an up or down arrow in the viewfinder for overexposure or underexposure.
When two arrows are visible the exposure is right. The light metering is done with a lever that stops down the lens for the exposure. There are plenty of shutter speeds, from 1/1000th to 1 second plus B. There is also a self timer lever.


The camera uses the Pentax/Praktica M42 screw mount, which means you can use a wide variety of lenses.
The battery cap was missing in this one so I placed a button cell with some scotch tape. I also stuffed two 1.55 LR44 button cells with some foam and 1 cent coins into the battery compartement. The voltage seems right, as I got very well exposed photos.
I used some of my M42 lenses to test the camera together with Fujifilm 200 ASA.

Here are some samples:

with a 50s Twin Tele Tamron 135mm/f2.8
The Soviet Jupiter 85mm/f2 that is nice for portraits and candids



 and a Hokunar 35mm/f2.8 that has a very low quality


 The pictures are well exposed but the quality of the lens used governs the quality of the photo.





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