Hi, Ken and all,
From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>I had gotten out my old Yashica GS (sold the GSNs)
Oh, I have a GSN and a (black!) GTN... really sharp optics! And nice for
long auto-exposure, too.
BTW, I have a parts-donor GS -- I have in mind the experiment of taking its
45/1.7 lens away, removing the shutter and fitting a LTM or M-bayonet...
However, I figure making it rangefinder-coupled would be a nightmare :-(
>No battery and it's no longer usable
If there isn't anything broken, a battery-less GS/GSN/GTN will shot
mechanically at 1/500 -- regardless of shutter controls. I made a perfectly
exposed Superia 400 that way! And there's no need for the exact 5.6 v
Mercury battery -- anything up to 6.5 V is OK, like 4x LR44.
>Years later, I've been through a
>couple of medium and large-format cameras with rangefinders.
I took away the (already malfunctioning) rangefinder on my Crown Graphic...
I intend to use it thru the ground glass.
>Unfortunately,
>they didn't work the same as a decent little 35mm RF. The spots were not
>large, clear or bright. And the base was too short, as in the XA.
I had recently a "trouble" with the rangefinder of my Bessa-T (whose base is
the longest of all Bessas) and my new, shiny Skopar 21mm F4. It seemed to be
somewhat miscalibrated... but according to the DOF scale, it only would
matter at f/0.3 or so!!! ;-)
In SLRs, the split-image automatically "loses" accuracy when fitting a
superwide, but that doesn't happen in rangefinders -- with that lens, I'll
have to learn to focus "approximately" and shoot faster, instead of wasting
time doing an unnecessarily accurate focusing.
Cheers,
--
Carlos J. Santisteban Salinas
IES Turaniana (Roquetas de Mar, Almeria)
<http://cjss.sytes.net/>
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