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Three months in with the Yashica YF, and a reflection on my rangefinder stable

Well, look at that: A vintage rangefinder with a fancy leather bag. So…urban. On my birthday last August, Emee gifted me a Yashica YF rangefinder. It needed some TLC before I could really go to town with it, so I dropped it off at Advance Camera and picked it up after I got back from Tokyo in January. The Yashica YF is a pretty rare circa 1959 machine that uses interchangeable lenses with the…

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Canon Canonet QL17 G-III: Believe the hype?

Astute readers may have noticed that my collection of traditionally styled fixed-lens rangefinders shrank from 2 to 0 a couple months ago–first, the Minolta Hi-Matic 7s departed the stable when I realized I had outgrown its chonky charms, then the Olympus 35RD decided to develop Sticky Shutter Syndrome again, and I was leery about repairing it. At that point I thought that I might be done with…

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Houston!

Hey folks. If you hadn’t already figured out via Flickr or instagram, I’m in Houston, Texas. We’re down here to visit Emee’s family for Thanksgiving, though due to the expense and nightmare of traveling right at the holiday, we came early (Thursday) and are actually leaving on Thanksgiving Thursday. Now Houston is definitely not a first choice destination for me—sprawly cities in the Southeast…