More from the Yashica Electro with expired film.

Some more samples with the expired Agfa 100XRG film rated at 25 ASA on camera.

The large aperture allows for a nice bokeh.

It is a beautiful camera and the aperture priority exposure allows for some control, but it is bulky, the size of an SLR, and lacks the viewfinder control and exchangeable lenses found in SLR cameras.

 Plato's statue

 old and new

a sunset

feeding pigeons

 red train

An underexposed picture saved by the scanner.

Yashica Electro 35 GSN with expired film.

I've loaded the Yashica Electro 35 GSN with a roll from my stock of long ago expired Agfa 100XRG film and rated the camera to 25 ASA.

I know the camera takes sharp and well exposed pictures, but it is a big and bulky camera to take it out for shooting.

The scanned photos from the lab needed some adjustment of blacks and exposure.

Yashica Electro 35 GSN 1st roll

Fujicolor 200 ASA
There were light leaks from the back cover so I converted some photos to B/W.

 

Yashica Electro 35 GSN

Yashica Electro 35 GSN. Bought from a street seller for 15 euros. I had to fabricate a new battery, made out of 4 LR pieces taped together with some foam to fit in the diameter of the camera's inlet and put some  stuffed aluminum foil to lengthen the pile to make contact. The shutter did fire after the electrics had been restored but the "pad of death" needed replacement. After a surgical operation I managed to glue a new pad into the camera without opening the lens assembly.

Put a test roll of Fujicolor 200 ASA. The f1.7 lens delivers sharp pics with a nice bokeh. I did find some light leaks and repaired the back cover later.

some samples