New toy (my first rangefinder)

No, it’s not what it sounds like, and I didn’t buy it at Toys”Я”Us :-) In fact, it’s a 1969 Yashica Electro 35 GT – one of the many fixed-lens semi-automatic rangefinder cameras produced in the 60s and 70s before SLRs became the ruling species on planet Photography.

1969 Yashica Electro 35 GT rangefinder camera | Olympus E-P1 + Cosmicar/Pentax 25/1.4 @ f/1.4, 1/100 sec, ISO 800

This is the earlier version of the GT that doesn’t yet have gold-platet innards and only goes up to 500 ISO (the later GT(N) and GS(N) models go up to 1000.) I only just received it, so I couldn’t do much testing, but what I can say is that everything works, and after cleaning it up a bit the rangefinder is bright and clear and it looks just great :-)

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