Canon 7 (again)

Canon 7 with f/0.95 lens is a great camera. For the next four months after I have bought it it was the only camera I used.

I thought for a while to sell all my 35 mm gear and keep only these two cameras.

I liked it for night shots but as you can see on the photos bellow, at 0.95 the lens is quite soft (photos bellow: two friends also using film cameras on a night photo tour).

It is also too expensive to be used at night on a dangerous city like Sao Paulo. So after these four months I returned to use my Yashica.

The Planar lens 50 mm f/1.4 is a bit more than one f-stop slower then Canon´s f/0.95, but it compensates with a good metering system. And I don´t have to handle with such a care as when I shoot with Canon 7.

The next two pictures were taken with Yashica + Planar. This guy is a newsstand owner and he uses a Yashica point-and-shoot film camera. As you can see the bokeh of the Planar lens is beautiful.

But I still have to learn how to take low-light pictures.

Self-Portrait with a TLR

I read once that you are not a photographer until make a self-portrait on a mirror using a TLR camera. I know, it´s stupid, but, what the heck! Why not?

At that time I had two TLR cameras: Rollei Magic and Yashica MAT.

It could have been any of both, but I took Yashica to take this picture.

It´s a bit blurred because I had to use slow shutter speed (something like 1/15).

The camera was great. I loved that camera. I found it on a used furniture store (no kidding!), covered in dust, meter working perfectly even in low light. All it needed was a CLA that cost me almost the same as I paid for the camera (was very cheap).

I didn´t use it too much, maybe 4 or 5 rolls of film, until I sale it to a friend, but the pictures were very good. The Yashinon 80 mm f/3.5 lens was sharp even to the edges and was fantastic for BW photos. I can´t tell the diference between the pictures taken with this camera from those taken with a Rolleiflex.

The only color film I shoot with this cameras was an expired Kodak 64T which is set to Tungsten lamp and when used at daylight renders this blue color.

It´s stupid to say you are not a photographer until take a picture of yourself on a mirror using a TLR camera, but I can say you may become a better photographer when you exercise your look with a TLR.

Yashica Lynx 14

This guy has used this camera for more than 40 years without ever having to take it for maintenance.

More from Bixiga Antiques Fair

“As I said before, 90% is pure junk. Decorative items only. Here a doll takes care of the business.”

Update Feb/15: I changed my opinion. There are some junk, sure, but most are usable cameras that just need some CLA from a skilled technician.

Some 8 mm movies.

Yashica 12 and two Yashica MAT TLR cameras.

One old Polaroid.

Revueflex 35 mm camera.

Elmo 16 mm projector.

One fake Yashica.

Cameras together

Everytime we join some friends on a cafe to talk we make this kind of picture. Most of these cameras were shown on this blog.

The picture below was sent by Dimitry.

Yashica FX-3

Yashica FX-3 with Contax Distagon 35 mm f/2.8 lens. Wow! I´m drooling!! This is the only lens for 35mm film I would buy (I have everything I want for 35 mm, except this lens), but it is almost impossible to find one locally.

An original Contax neck Strap.

Yashica FX-2

Yashica FX-2 with Contax Distagon 25 mm /2.8. On a workshop that gathers near 50 photographers I found two using film.