 CAMERA INDEX Yashica 44LM There is something I find hugely attractive about TLR:s. Somehow it's like the TLR is how a camera is supposed to look. The twin lenses, the waist-level finder and the knobs (and sometimes crank). Quite often i can feel that a camera is beautiful, and I know that not everyone knows what I mean when I say that. But this Yashica really is a thing of beauty. The Yashica 44 that is unmetered is perhaps a bit more aesthetically appealing, but having a working meter is still more attractive when you use the camera. The Yashica 44LM (LM stands for Light Meter) is a 4x4 TLR, meaning it uses the 127-film format which is 4x4 cm rollfilm with a paper back. So the negatives are smaller compared to the 6x6 cm Rolleiflex for instance, but bigger than the 3,6x2,4 cm "35mm" film format. The format itself is very uncommon today, but film is still manufactured and many people have also converted their cameras to use 35mm film. I am probably going to find some B/W 127-film that I can develop myself and scan, because finding a place in Sweden which develops this format is probably going to be difficult. The meter is a "semi-coupled" selenium meter meaning it shows you what shutter speed to pick based on aperture. The fun thing about this camera is that for once i also got the story behind the camera. The man who sold it to me said that he got it from his father as a gift in the late 1950's. His father was a freelancer for a local newspaper and the owner also had some photos from this camera published in the paper. So this must be an early copy of the camera. Despite it's age and the fact that it's probably been used a lot, it's still in very good condition as you can see in the photos. Camera data
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