Yashica Mat 124 G Street Photography

I couldn t find a group dedicated to this camera so i made my a group so people could post pictures and ask questions regarding this model.

Yashica mat 124 g street photography. The hefty metal body makes this camera feel like a small film holding tank. Image quality the yashica 124 and 124g are on the same level as the rolleiflex cameras with tessar or xenar lenses the planar and xenotar enses are a touch sharper edges and corners at wider apertures but i m happy with the tessar type lenses. While not nearly as large as the 4 5 equipment i often use the medium format yashica mat still records an image 3 6x larger than 35mm. June 18 2014 july 16 2014 jcstreetwolf tagged 120film blackandwhite format lomo medium mediumformat streetphotography yashica 124g yashicamat leave a comment leave a reply cancel reply enter your comment here.

The last version the 124g was essentially the same as the 124 except that it had gold plated contacts in the meter hence the g suffix. 140m pentax p30t power lines pushed rangefinder reflection rikenon 50mm f 2 rokkor 50mm f 1 7 seaside sheffield slide film snow street photography tlr tree trees tri x winter yashica mat 124 g zeiss mess ikonta 524 16 zenzanon 75mm f 2 8 pe zuiko 28mm f 3 5. So i made a compromise by making my yashica mat 124g my main night photography camera and used it for that purpose from 2007 2009. The yashicamat 124 is based on the rolleiflex camera and nearly as good for a fraction of the cost.

The viewing lens on the yashicamat is an f2 8 but the taking lens is f3 5 whereas some. Photography yashica mat 124 g. Ilford hp5 medium format 120 6x6 thefind lab dreamy tlr twin lens reflex on aug 17 2016 so i ve been wanting to shoot the 120 square format of the ilford hp5 ever since i ve developed the 35mm version of it shot with the nikon f100 last year there is something that draws me to it a mystery. The yashica mat 124g is one of those cameras that has just always caught my attention.

I had to shoot this episode very quickly before the sun disapperead and in. It s a beautiful camera even without knowing what it can do photographically. This group is for anyone who shoots with the yashica mat 124 or yashica mat 124g. Posted by gabi in film ilford hp5 tagged with film bokeh yashica mat 124.