There was a benefit though, as the camera club was run by the vice-principal, who kept the material in his room. Guess this goes back to high school time where I had to pick an extracurricular activity, and the camera club was one of the few options that did not involve chasing a ball.
In comparison, my images are, well, pathetic. Some images shown are stunning, I assume that is why they were posted. Looking at the images presented in some of the sites reminds me that I am a hopeless photographer.The only downside of these sites is the byzantine navigation, but once align with the authors’ mind you may score. What it means is that you may save much Google time and go right there. Some cite these sites as a source, others just shamelessly copy or quote information thereof. Online information on everything Yashica, including the Electro camera line, come from far and wide, but all boils down to two original sources: the Yashica Guy and Yashica TLR.In short, getting real and useful information is a grand task. Other pages may contain some observations, but nothing that was not discussed by the Grand Cardinals. Some are pages by the Church of the Camera Grand Cardinals, such as Mike Ekman and Ken Rockwell, as well as other pacesetters who take pride in their research and present chewable information. The pages that contain useful and valid information are far and few between. This is followed by more pages that make you wonder how they made it into Google’s selection. Now come the Pinterest and it’s sisters, YouTube and ‘for sale’ pages, most stale, but as nothing is lost on the net. Thereafter pages containing much meaningless copy, usually in large fonts, not sure why, and images galore. First on the search results are the usual Wiki pages, where entries are copied from one Wiki to another.Only after you comb through these pages, it graciously affords you a sight into more search results pages, abruptly ending at the 17th page. While Google reports half a million entries, it presents you with a meagre seven pages that its algorithm deems are good for you.So I dove into the 525,000 entries, and subsequently came up with the following insights: It is impressive indeed, but in reality, it means little. The six I have are of four models, so I had to rely on Google for information about the rest.Įntering ‘Yashica Electro 35’ in the search field, Google presented me with “ About 525,000 results (0.51 seconds) ”. After discounting the SLR and mini Electro cameras, there are 18 rangefinders and two viewfinders. There are 43 cameras that carry this name in one variation or another, which I believe was for legacy and name recognition. Yashica was generous in using the ‘Electro’ camera name. Till now I had not looked closely at them, and it seems that although they carry different model definitions, they all look similar. I remember where I got two of the lot, where one was the first in my collection. I was looking for a camera among the rangefinders and realized that there are Yashica Electro cameras everywhere.
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