Contax / Yashica

Hi folks,

I am a Yashica Electro 35 GSN user, and a soon-to-be Contax G1 user!!!

I have been using the GSN since the 80s (it was my father's camera), but lately it hasn't gotten much use due to battery issues. How do other users of these wonderful cameras solve the battery problem? The original mercury battery recommended for these cameras is not available any longer. Do you use an adapter, a substitute battery, or some other method? I would appreciate your thoughts on this.


Best wishes,
Sanjay

hello, I would like to join this group. I shoot predominately with 4X5 and my hasselblad, but i still use my trusty yashica g and have my students shoot with about 3 different versions of yashica in their photo three class.
look forward to joining in.

Just returned from a trip in Italy with 2 Aria's (1 of them rigged to take Kodak IR) and 3 lenses 50/1.4, 28/2.8 and 85/2.8. This seems to be my favorite travelkit at the moment....

Pleased would I be to join this group. I have the following equipment: RTSIII, 21mm Distagon, 28mm 2.8 Distagon, 28mm Super Angulon PC from a Leica R that I changed to a Contax adapter, 35mm 2.8 Distagon, 35mm 2.8 PC Distagon, 50mm 1.4 Planar, 60mm 1:1 version Makro Planar, 100mm 2.0 Planar, 200mm 2.0 Apo Sonnar, Mutar 2, a non Contax bellows unit, 4 inch Goerz Red Dot Artar, set of tubes.

I might add that I really like Contax cameras. The RTSIII is nicer for what I wish to do these days than any other camera I have used.

thanks, Rob...it has been a busy month. The Lynx 14 (I call her Cyclops) is exactly what I have.

I just snagged a Lynx 14 to add to the Contax horde (RX, G1). Which battery does it take again? What's most folks' take on the mercury-free-substitute vs adjust the voltage of the meter solution to the battery situation with these cameras?

Welcome Luke.
Those look like two interesting rangefinders. Do you have the Lynx 14?

Luke here. I am a Yashica Lynx and GSN user.

Thank very much Rob, I got it

I have never seen a free downloadable manual for the RX. You can buy them from http://www.oldtimercameras.com/stock...ModelPage=true