Milsurp After Hours

Over 8 millions sold 1971 to 1977. Aperture priority with three shutter speeds with the fastest at 1/500. Yashica GSN can be found on ebay any day for any price you want to pay. So.. I got one some time back and got around to trying it out yesterday and developed the film this morning.

One draw back is you have to use a substitute battery in this hefty 1 pound 9 ounce range finder. The other is that you never know what shutter speed the camera is choosing and sometimes you can get some pretty blurry snaps.

Mine turned out to have a bit of debris floating around on the internal side of the lense which I didn't notice until after I had the negatives developed and scanned. Managed to fix that now.

Some minor failures. The camera was not always showing when the aperture wouldn't suit the possible shutter speeds. It also somehow managed a few double exposures...although the shutter wouldn't fire without working the film advance. Haven't figured out how that happened. And when not shooting with the sun to your back it picked up lots of flare and adjusted the shutter speed to the point the negative exposure ended up more than a bit too dark.

The lense is 45mm and does a pretty good job. I own worse rangefinder film cameras ...but I own some other rangefinders I think are a little better.

Anyway....fun adventure for not much money.

Looks like a nice little camera. I have, as you may remember, a Yashica MAT124 medium format camera and it is an excellent performer.
I just looked it up on ebay - some are going for $350 I paid about $30 for mine.

Are those prints 'as is' or have you worked on them before you posted them?

The first one I think I hit the sharpen once using Irfanview. They are as scanned. However there were some that were not up to snuff. Too dark. Some were not in focus because of camera movement etc.

Plenty of detail lurking in here Robert.........