{"id":3283,"date":"2011-06-17T06:43:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T13:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2011-06-17T06:43:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T13:43:47","slug":"canon-ql17-g-iii-vs-yashica-electo-35-gx-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=3283","title":{"rendered":"Canon Ql17 G-III vs Yashica Electo 35 GX Part two"},"content":{"rendered":"

Operation and handling<\/strong><\/p>\n

While\u00a0 these cameras where state of the art in their day, compared to a modern digital camera they are extremely simple devices.\u00a0 The Canon uses a electro mechanical system to set the aperture.\u00a0 It is a simple galvanometer needle that’s position is trapped when the shutter is pressed, this is then translated into an aperture through a linkage.\u00a0 I found that the metering is very susceptible to underexposure due to back lighting.\u00a0 With the Yashica you set the aperture and the camera sets the timing of the shutter, where one of the variables in the circuit is how much light is falling on the silicon sensor.\u00a0 Beyond that they really are a lens and a system of moving the film forward.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A small but noticeable difference is in the film advance lever.\u00a0 The Canon requires a longer throw of the lever while the Yashica advance is just a small flick of the thumb.\u00a0 I much prefer the Yashica in this respect.\u00a0 On the other hand the focus control on the Canon is superior, it includes a knob off to the left that makes focus adjustments effortless.\u00a0 The Yashica’s focus however is adjusted with rubber patches around the lens barrel near to the camera body and I find that I almost have to reach around the camera to change it making it difficult to focus and shoot without a slight hand position change.\u00a0 Update:\u00a0<\/strong>A change in how I\u00a0hold the camera,\u00a0with my left hand underneath, has made them about equal for focusing.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Both camera’s are rangefinders with focus patches but they appear very different in operation.\u00a0 The Canon is more subtle with\u00a0it’s square\u00a0focus patch not impinging on the scene through the viewfinder.\u00a0 The Yashica has a very contrasty diamond shaped patch that I find too intrusive but slightly easier to confirm focus with.\u00a0 The Canon viewfinder is much brighter than the Yashica’s but they both have frame lines that adjust for parallax error.\u00a0 They also have the exact same magnification, I verified this by holding them to my eyes at the same time,\u00a0 An interesting effect of doing this is that you can see in 3D despite looking through them, a not interesting effect is that this can make you feel queasy.<\/p>\n

So all that remains is to get my negatives back and do a comparison.\u00a0 I do have a sense that the Canon metering was off in some circumstances as it seemed to be selecting too small an aperture for the conditions.\u00a0 This isn’t normally a large problem though as under other conditions I would use this camera in full manual mode, which is not an option for the Yashica.<\/p>\n

Part one<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Operation and handling While\u00a0 these cameras where state of the art in their day, compared to a modern digital camera they are extremely simple devices.\u00a0 The Canon uses a electro mechanical system to set the aperture.\u00a0 It is a simple galvanometer needle that’s position is trapped when the shutter is pressed, this is then translated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[19,87,64,67],"class_list":["post-3283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","tag-camera","tag-canon","tag-film","tag-yashica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3315,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions\/3315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}