Camera Talk

A recently shuttered Appalachian Power Company generating plant on the Virginia-West Virginia border.


Glen Lyn by P F McFarland, on Flickr

I need to relearn how to load my Yashica 635. I get it confused with the Rolleiflex, and get the start point wrong. I took four photos of this plant, and the first two wound up on the paper backing. The third wasn't as good as this one. Two blanks at the end of the roll. It just means I'm not taking enough photos to keep in practice. I'll have to remedy that.

PF

Well, as your photo shows, that Yashica is a fine instrument. I bet that the next outing with it will be smoother. Maybe the Fall colors will call out for a medium format treatment?

Bill D.

What a pity about loading, you have my full simpathy, as I do these errors all the time!

Back when these cameras were new, we were not expected to switch cameras and operating modes so often. Photography books recommended one to simulate shooting several rolls, without film, in order to get acquainted with the new instrument.

The lens looks very sharp at that aperture. I also look forward to fall colors in MF in your area.

What a pity about loading, you have my full simpathy, as I do these errors all the time!

bunch of bloody amateurs.........

mind you i once loaded my Mamiya 645 with roll reversed.a whole roll with the backing paper 'exposed'

had a real nice clean strip of film though.......