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Archive 2010 · Yashica Lens Thread

Jim Schemel
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p.2 #1 · p.2 #1 · Yashica Lens Thread

Yashica 50ML @1.9
-Jim

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/4373994923_dbf7ccd37e_b.jpg

Feb 22, 2010 at 02:12 PM

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p.2 #2 · p.2 #2 · Yashica Lens Thread

Nice, Jim. That chair in your first post pops out of the screen btw. Let's try to keep this bad boy goin'.

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s188/fat_mat_labatt/FM%20Forum/_MG_1210.jpg

Feb 22, 2010 at 07:45 PM

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p.2 #3 · p.2 #3 · Yashica Lens Thread

Helimat,
I am trying to keep it going.What lens did you use in your post?
-Jim

Feb 22, 2010 at 08:49 PM

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p.2 #4 · p.2 #4 · Yashica Lens Thread

Ooops, sorry. Yash 55/1.2

Here's another:

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s188/fat_mat_labatt/FM%20Forum/_MG_1111.jpg

Feb 22, 2010 at 09:11 PM

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p.2 #5 · p.2 #5 · Yashica Lens Thread

No offense to the posters here, but-

All the example pics in this thread pretty much prove my point, above.

Seriously, is there anything here that makes someone want to buy a Yaschica lens? I don't see it at all.

Feb 22, 2010 at 10:39 PM

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p.2 #6 · p.2 #6 · Yashica Lens Thread

The samples look pretty good in my opinion. Indeed I am looking to add a ML 50/1.4 to my collection.
We are so diverse in this forum. One man's trash is another man's treasure.
By the way, here's my contribution to the thread:

DSB 50/1.9:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4045/4370712406_7730ebf379_b.jpg

Feb 22, 2010 at 10:57 PM

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p.2 #7 · p.2 #7 · Yashica Lens Thread

Cableaddict wrote:
No offense to the posters here, but-

All the example pics in this thread pretty much prove my point, above.

Seriously, is there anything here that makes someone want to buy a Yaschica lens? I don't see it at all.

It is pretty easy to jump into someone else's thread and trash a lens you have never tried, as it is also easy to bash other people's images when you never post your own.
We get it, you don't like Yashica.

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Feb 23, 2010 at 12:03 AM

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p.2 #8 · p.2 #8 · Yashica Lens Thread

How very polite of you.

My apologies for having an opinion. Go enjoy your blurry lens.

-and BTW, as I mentioned earlier, I HAVE owned Yaschica lenses. Several, in fact. I sold them all rather quickly.

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Feb 23, 2010 at 01:14 AM

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p.2 #9 · p.2 #9 · Yashica Lens Thread

My 55/2.8 ML macro just arrived today, so I have no detailed optical report. The build quality is classic Yashica, and the size is petite (unlike my CZ SP60). With deeply recessed front element, no hood is needed. Below is a studio test, two lights, f/11, mounted on Canon 1Ds. Me like!
http://www.patternassociates.com/rico/contax/misc/fruit1.jpg

Feb 23, 2010 at 07:30 AM

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p.2 #10 · p.2 #10 · Yashica Lens Thread

Nice, Rico. I was eyeballing one of these myself...

Cableaddict wrote:
How very polite of you.

My apologies for having an opinion. Go enjoy your blurry lens.

Again, beat it.

Feb 23, 2010 at 10:29 AM

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p.2 #11 · p.2 #11 · Yashica Lens Thread

another one with strong sunlight behind the couple.In this case i was wanting it to flare as much as it could.
-Jim

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2683/4374748316_2dcb42c1c0_b.jpg

Feb 23, 2010 at 03:49 PM

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p.2 #12 · p.2 #12 · Yashica Lens Thread

Beautiful photo Jim and I dig the flare!

Here's two from a Yashica ML 1.4/50. It is very similar to the Zeiss/Contax 1.4/50. Of all the manual 1.4 standard lenses I've tried, it is these two which stand out for open aperture performance.

full open Yashica ML 1.4/50 on K100D, all sliders neutral out-of-the cam daylight jpg

f/5.6 Yashica ML 1.4/50 on K100D

The second pic was pp'd somehow but I can tell you that I tried to soften the original pic. The Yashica is as brutal in contrast as the Zeiss if not more. You gotta pay for it in terms of 'too sharp' sometimes and 'not-so-nice bokeh' sometimes too. All in all I'd say this Yashica lens is a raw version of the Zeiss and definitely worth a try if you can get it for a reasonable price - this means the old Contax version should cost you no more than the Yashica. The Yash has 8 blades and no Ninja star so that's a little plus.

Keep' em coming,
Georg

Feb 28, 2010 at 11:33 AM

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p.2 #13 · p.2 #13 · Yashica Lens Thread

Nice George! I need to get out more with my Yashica's, and help keep this thread going.

Feb 28, 2010 at 11:39 AM

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p.2 #14 · p.2 #14 · Yashica Lens Thread

Here are a few more from the ML 21/3.5, clearly not sharp at all:

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s188/fat_mat_labatt/FM%20Forum/_MG_6537.jpg
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s188/fat_mat_labatt/FM%20Forum/_MG_8148.jpg
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s188/fat_mat_labatt/FM%20Forum/_MG_6163.jpg

And here is a panorama I had printed 2'x8' and is hanging on our bedroom wall:

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s188/fat_mat_labatt/FM%20Forum/CathedralGrove.jpg

Feb 28, 2010 at 12:46 PM

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p.2 #15 · p.2 #15 · Yashica Lens Thread

And here are a few from the 55/1.2, certainly a little dreamy wo and up close, but sharp when stopped down only just a little.

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s188/fat_mat_labatt/FM%20Forum/_MG_0848.jpg
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s188/fat_mat_labatt/FM%20Forum/_MG_1104.jpg
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s188/fat_mat_labatt/FM%20Forum/_MG_1161.jpg
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s188/fat_mat_labatt/FM%20Forum/_MG_1429.jpg
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s188/fat_mat_labatt/FM%20Forum/_MG_1451.jpg

Feb 28, 2010 at 12:48 PM

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p.2 #16 · p.2 #16 · Yashica Lens Thread

Good samples of possible use for the respective focal lengths helimat! The 21 looks good imo but I am not a wide angle freak.

Here's one from an M42 Yashinon DX (silver front ring) 1.7/50. This lens again is similar to the Zeiss brother, the predecessor to the Contax 1.7/50. Very contrasty already at wide open and it'll bite some more. Some say it is already too much contrast but, likewise to the 1.4/50, a matter of taste.

I gotta search for the other ML lens pics I've done,
keep it up, Georg

Mar 01, 2010 at 10:42 AM

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p.2 #17 · p.2 #17 · Yashica Lens Thread

I have a Yashinon DS-M 55/1.2 I haven't used in a long time. I have no camera to use it on so it just sits there.

Any suggestions for a nice inexpensive m42 mount metered body to use this lens again? The pin is bent and stuck in the body if that means anything.

Nice photos folks.

Mar 01, 2010 at 12:58 PM

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p.2 #18 · p.2 #18 · Yashica Lens Thread

wjlapier wrote:
I have a Yashinon DS-M 55/1.2 I haven't used in a long time. I have no camera to use it on so it just sits there.

Any suggestions for a nice inexpensive m42 mount metered body to use this lens again? The pin is bent and stuck in the body if that means anything.

Nice photos folks.

Any Canon SLR with an adapter would do... What do you shoot?

Mar 01, 2010 at 08:31 PM

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p.2 #19 · p.2 #19 · Yashica Lens Thread

Yeah, nice landscapes, helimat! Great colors on the first one, did you process much on it?

Mar 01, 2010 at 10:28 PM

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p.2 #20 · p.2 #20 · Yashica Lens Thread

drhee39 wrote:
Yeah, nice landscapes, helimat! Great colors on the first one, did you process much on it?

Thanks! Not much PP, just ran it through my usual minor adjustments in DPP before converting to jpeg.

Mar 01, 2010 at 10:50 PM

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