Battery Yashica Mat 124g

The camera looks to be in good shape and the shutter too just by sound.

Battery yashica mat 124g. The yashica mat 124g is built very sturdily and to what seems to me to be a high standards. Make offer tested yashica mat 124g 80mm f 3 5 new cds cell cla close up lens case vgc n mint meter works yashica mat 124g 6x6 tlr medium format camera japan 432. I want to save the trouble of buying batteries if the batteries are really giving power to the meter. Thankfully the battery in yashica mat 124g only powers the light meter unlike my yashica electro.

Open the battery compartment cover holding with finger and by turning it counter clockwise. A common complaint with used yashica mat 124 124g cameras is that that meter is inoperative. All the controls are logical easily accessible and placed pretty much in the same places where one would look for them on almost any tlr. A friend now retired wants to start using her yashica mat 124g again after years with digital.

Having only 12 frames to fill in a roll is also a positive thing for me because i can fill it up quickly then send it to develop. In other words can i use yashica mat 124g without battery while i use an hand held light meter for the correct exposure. Use either mallory px 13b eveready epx 13 or equivalent. The front of the yashica mat 124g contains both viewing and taking lenses.

You just cut few layers of thick aluminium foil. Tested yashica mat 124g 80mm f 3 5 new cds cell cla close up lens case vgc. The first post in the series describes the task in more detail and includes links to all of the other posts. The last version the 124g was essentially the same as the 124 except that it had gold plated contacts in the meter hence the g suffix.

Produced 1968 71 yashica co ltd. The yashica mat 124 is the penultimate in a long line of medium format twin lens reflex tlr cameras produced by yashica and is clearly a copy of the esteemed rolleiflex tlr. I researched online and nobody seems to have brought up a similar question like this. You can replace light meter px625 mercury battery with cheap 675 hearing aid battery.

The screen is bright but fairly dusty on the underside. I did mention that the seller bundled the wide angle accessories but i haven t tried it out yet. Yashica mat 124g posted 12 22 02. The mod is very easy.

Yashica mat 124 cleaning 4 of 4. This is the final post in a series of four related to cleaning my used yashica mat 124.