Yashica Mat Focus Repair

None of the information provided here will be found in yashica s repair manual.

Yashica mat focus repair. Be sure to set the focus ring to infinity. A single bolt holds the focus shaft in place. 2 that enables focus in the 36. The focus wheel side has a mirror image of this.

The original focusing screen on yashica mat 124 is very dim and doesn t have any assisting features so i felt lucky and ordered a chinese replacement with a. Also for yashica mat owners. Roman owns a newer yashica mat. Get your yashica mat serviced and back to factory specs.

In this part you see how to open up the chamber where the light meter s wire is. Remove the strap holder on top. I opened the right plate and found that the problem is in the gears and spring circled in red. Now we need to open the other side up.

Yashica s tend to have comparatively bright viewfinders which also makes them nice as you get older and your own optics get harder to focus. The right side of the yashica mat has the folding advance crank lever and frame counter. It requires the use of a flat blade. Follow me to see sneak previews.

Use thin pliers or a thin socket. These days 80 for a repair seems quite reasonable. If you intend to buy a junker for parts there is an outside chance that even within a specific model that some parts may appear as slightly different or do not interchange. He was kind enough to share this information edited lightly and a high res image.

And now let s get to the part where the yashica mat 124g starts to be system camera with its different add ons. There are two original close up lenses available. Unscrew the plastic cover in the middle of the focus wheel. Starting in 1971 the yashinon viewing lenses opened up to f 2 8.

The standard yashica mat 124g lens focuses down to 1 meter. The earlier yashica mats had f 3 5 viewing lenses though some yashica mats in the late 1960s had f 3 2 viewing lenses. I bought a yashica mat with a rewind knob that was sometimes stuck. Pshinkaw nov 26 2001.

This is an illustration from a yashica mat 124 service manual showing the two focus cams.