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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Yashica Mat 124-G
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Date: Sun, 26-May-85 22:35:37 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 26 22:35:37 1985
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While buying my weekly supply of photographic materials at the local photo
store yesterday, I saw a gentleman buying an unusual-looking camera.  This
made me curious, so I also asked to see one of them; it was a "Yashica Mat
124-G" twin-lens reflex camera.  I had seen these advertised before in the
catalogs, but since it said something like "good for student or professional
use," and since it was very low-priced, I always figured there wasn't much
to them.

However, this actually looks like a fairly interesting camera, especially
considering it only costs $124.  Does anybody out there have one of these?
What are they good for?  I see that there is a description of it in the
December '84 Modern Photography's survey of cameras (page 107), which
reveals that it is kind of primitive; unfortunately, the description assumes
you already know more or less all about them.  Well, it looks vaguely like
something from the 1940s or thereabout, and has a separate "focusing" and
"taking" lens, and apparently some kind of magnifying glass so you can
see the image projected by the focusing lens onto a waist-level viewfinder
in order to focus it properly; it also has a mysterious "eye level sports
finder".  What is this camera, anyway?  Does it make good pictures?
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