Monday, February 25, 2013

J-J-J-J-yashica

My friend Carol gave me this beautiful J series Yashica for christmas/solstice/etc and I took it home and BROKE IT! (not on purpose, but it didn't work anymore) So after getting it back from repair, I finally got to shoot with it! BOY HOWDY do I like this thing. It's taking me a while to get the hang of the focus, and to adjust to the fact that I can only focus like three feet away from things (Because i'm used to getting my nose into everything) BUT it is THE PERFECT carry-around camera. Carol knew The Jessica (yep, named the camera) and I would be fast friends AND SHE IS CORRECT!

So far i've run through 2 expired rolls of color film (one test, one fun) and some slide film (one is getting processed tomorrow, the other one was too old and broke in the camera ON THE LAST FRAME! It was the trashcan for that one because I was a goof and opened the back to see what was going on.) So here's what I got: