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07-03-2009, 11:53 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Here & Now
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| Yashica Minister III
I just got this camera. Anybody with any experience on this camera?
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07-03-2009, 12:50 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Turkey (West Midlands, UK)
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| Yes, I have one. They are quite good cameras, decent sharp lenses, capable of high quality images. First time I saw one was when I was about 12 someone in my class had one, I was very jealous as all I had was my mothers old Brownie 127 
Yashica always made decent cameras mechanically sound, reliable but not always the sleekest looking.
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07-03-2009, 02:55 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Eastern Canada
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| Does the Minister-III require a mercury battery (1.35 V)? My Minister-D is powered by a 675 hearing aid battery (with a bit of tin foil).Works just fine.I purchase them at my local pharmacy for $5.00 (pack of 8).
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07-04-2009, 09:36 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Here & Now
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| No; this one has Selenium Cells around the lens which still work. I don trust it though. I'm using my LunaPro. I'm in the middle of a roll now. One reads the camera meter; and according to the number (8, 9, 10); one translates this to the most anterior ring. This makes the speed and the opening of the diafragm arrange themselves. 8 gives you 1/125 con f/4 if pointed at a light bulb with ASA 100
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07-04-2009, 12:45 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Michigan
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| I have one I carry in the car. The meter works fine - gives me proper exposures. Great little camera. The numbers are Exposure Index 'EI', and were popular in the 60's. | |
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07-04-2009, 02:46 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Here & Now
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| I have an Electro 35 GSN, an MG-1 and a Lynx 14 e IC, but this is the most strange yet. I agree; they are all excellent cameras, with great glass.
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"The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... . In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.".-Henri Cartier Bresson
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07-06-2009, 09:38 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Shropshire, UK
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| I've got one of these... I bought it off ebargumay.
It is lovely and clean, it looks great, but alas the shutter won't fire 
So I haven't been able to use it, yet... which is a shame because it does look like a very well designed and equiped camera.
Hopefully it will just need a good CLA and I've just taken delivery of an ultrasonic cleaner which I hope will help me do just that.
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"No, I've got to have a digital camera - all my stuff will go straight onto the computer. Nobody prints anymore, NOBODY!!!- My Nephew, when I suggested he considered film.
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07-06-2009, 06:38 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Here & Now
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| Hope you get it fixed.
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07-09-2009, 01:22 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Here & Now
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| Some pictures. The camera might have a light leak:   
Definitely prone to flare
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07-16-2009, 07:28 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Here & Now
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| New lightseals: 
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