{"id":8112,"date":"2013-04-14T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=8112"},"modified":"2013-04-13T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T20:53:06","slug":"yashica-electro-gx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=8112","title":{"rendered":"Yashica Electro GX"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"YashicaGX-8834\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If I were shipwrecked on a desert island and I could only have one camera it wouldn’t be the Yashica Electro 35GX.\u00a0 Why? I couldn’t bring myself to break it to use the lens to\u00a0start a signal fire of course.\u00a0 Of all the fixed lens 35mm rangefinders\u00a0this must be one of the best, I don’t know of one better.\u00a0 Every time I get negatives back from this camera I am pleased, the images are sharp and the way the lens renders the out of focus areas is smooth and delightful.\u00a0 I also like the 40mm focal length, it may be the Goldilocks between 35mm and 50mm.\u00a0 As an example of the sharpness of the lens and just how fine grained\u00a0Kodak Ektar is here is a 100% crop from one of the images.<\/p>\n

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Scanned at 3200 DPI the resulting file is about the equivalent\u00a0of a 13 mpixel\u00a0digital capture.\u00a0 Not bad and films ability to\u00a0preserve shadow and highlight detail in the same image still exceeds digital for now but that’s not really why I shoot film.\u00a0 It’s still all about the cameras for me and this one is great.<\/p>\n\n\t\t