YashicaMat EM One of my favorite Yashicas to use. This on… Flickr

Yashica Mat Em. YashicaMat EM Chasing Classic Cameras with Chris You are correct, the Yashica-Mat is an excellent camera and well worth the time and money finding a good one if you were to own just one TLR It's an all-mechanical camera with no batteries needed

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Jumping ahead 30 years I borrowed a Y-M EM and found out what I had been missing in negative quality and detail Yashica MAT EM The next page contains information on this camera

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Another inexpensive (now) TLR is the Yashica EM (another with a super simple built-in exposure meter). Everything works on this camera… the built-in exposure meter works like a charm (no batteries required) and the shutter is spot on. It's clearly an evolution in the line of the 1957 Yashica-Mat and the 1958 Yashica-Mat LM

YashicaMat EM... At one time these were easy to see... no… Flickr. Jumping ahead 30 years I borrowed a Y-M EM and found out what I had been missing in negative quality and detail When Mark Hama did the CLA he replaced the Yashikor (3 element lens) with the Yashinon (4 element) Tessar clone

Vintage 1964 1967 Yashicamat EM Dual Lens Reflex Camera Etsy. The Yashica-mat from Japan was introduced in 1957 as Yashica's premium TLR entry, and was closely modeled after the contemporary Rolleicord. Released in 1964, the Yashica-Mat EM features an uncoupled light meter and a Yashinon shooting lens