A Manifest of Misadventure with the Yashica 635 Twin Lens Reflex

Great video n great camera...had mine CLA'd by Mark Hama and it prrrrs...waiting on the 35mm kit...gonna try that side of the camera. I also have a Yashica Rookie, the very basic TLR, but fun to shoot as well...

FWIW, you can get attachment close focus lenses if you know what kind of bayonet adaptor your camera has. I got a set of minolta ones. You can get to macro (well, the negs are huge after all, so macro isn't quite the achievement it sounds), and they have parallax correction.

I've got an MPP microcord, it's a British made rip off of the rolleicord. It's not bad, the lens is pretty good, and it works. The focusing screen isn't the best though. I really need to get in to intentional double exposure, because I've shot so many double exposures with this thing that I might as well get some decent photos out of the end of it.

I tried a Russian lubitel. Fun experience but ended up throwing myself in the gulag until I realized it was the bloody camera....Getting used to everything back to front is tricky.. bit like the sun setting in the east...cheers Roberto from ☀️ Sydney

If I had a pound for every time I'd walked to the top of a mountain only to find I'd left the base plate attached to the camera I was using last week I could afford that gold-plated Rolleiflex.
The one plus is that it taught me to stand still until I'd finished releasing the shutter button after the shot; normally I drop everything, lens caps, filters, negatives (Jesus, negatives, slippery little buggers) but I can hand hold to 1/4 second on a sober day 😉

another fab video from Aussie Spice.

Great video really like your humor

One more tip for the shutter release (I have not tried it myself): Use a car tire valve cap, make a hole in the center top that fit the tip of your conventional cable release and tread it/glue it. This contraption should be possible to tread on to the Yashica shutter release barrel. Good luck! 😊👍🏻

I love my Yashica 635. You do need to ge used to it. Also, you can use a remote shutter release, you just need a Leica/Nikon adaptor.

I think you may have some haze in your lens causing the light leak look when lights hits it.