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From: hkr4627@acf4.UUCP (Hedley K. J. Rainnie)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Yashica Mat 124-G
Message-ID: <2720037@acf4.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-May-85 01:39:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 01:39:00 1985
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The Yashica is basically identical to the old Rolleiflex twin lens 
reflex camera from forty years or so back up to the late seventies.

The advantages of the TLR is that 1)they are quiet, like rangefinders,
since they have no mirror movement 2)they are really simply constructed,
3) you can take picture of people without their knowledge since they
permit waist level viewing and may not be recognized as cameras 4) big
negatives and slides at a cheap price.

Disadvantages are 1)parallax error: what you see is not what you get
2) lack of interchangeable lenses (except the Mamiya TLR) 3) limited
range of shutter speeds.

-r-