{"id":13600,"date":"2015-01-24T10:01:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T18:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=13600"},"modified":"2015-01-24T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T18:02:18","slug":"the-minister-needs-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=13600","title":{"rendered":"The Minister needs glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"YashicaMinsterD-9770\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

One of the problems with using old cameras for the first time is that you never know if they are fully functional until later when you get the negatives back.\u00a0 Such is the case with my Yashica Minister D.\u00a0 I knew that there was something up with the focus because the rangefinder did not match the lens distance markings.\u00a0 I decided the safe bet was to use the markings on the lens and not the rangefinder which seemed so out of whack with what I knew the distances to be.\u00a0 Well it turns out that the lens markings were equally wrong or the lens itself has been damaged in some way I will need to have a closer look.\u00a0 In this shot I’m pretty sure that I had focused near infinity and had used a small aparature which should have resulted in everything in the scene being in focus so it seems likely that it is the lens itself.\u00a0 It shall go into ‘the pile’<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Yashica_MinisterD_Oct_2014_016\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Some more images that didn’t turn out<\/p>\n\n\t\t