Yashica TL-Electro (Large Image) (1972) See the discussion below about the history of Yashica. The Yashica TL-Electro is a fully manual 35mm SLR introduced in 1972. It takes Pentax screw mount lenses. The stop-down LED meter is powered by two PX640 batteries (2.7 volts total). Some versions are instead powered by one PX28 six volt battery. The manual is available at butkus.org. That site indicates the original batteries were two PX 640 1.35 volt mercury batteries for a total of 2.7 volts. You can get PX640 alkaline batteries today which are 1.5 volts each or a total of 3 volts. That site says it knows of one report of the alkaline batteries at the higher voltage of 3 volts burning out the meter LEDs. Other sites seem to suggest it should be okay, however. Photoethnography.com states that TL-Electro is almost identical to a Pentax Spotmatic II except the TL-Electro uses an LED meter instead of a match needle meter. The stop-down metering switch is in the same location as on the Pentax to the left of the lens. For stop-down metering I prefer the Mamiya cameras of the same era which used the film advance lever as the metering switch. Like the Pentax the Yashica TL-Electro is a solid, well made camera. Shutter speeds are from 1 second to 1/1000 second. Flash synch is at 1/60 second. It has a horizontal, cloth focal plane shutter. Mine has a Yashinon-DS 50mm f1.9 lens. Mine also came with a Tokina 80-200mm f4-5.6 lens and a small automatic flash. I bought my Yashica TL-Electro from an ad on Craigslist on June 28, 2012 in the Clairemont Mesa area of San Diego. I purchased this and Olympus C-2100 digital camera for $25. The price on Craigslist was $25 for the Yashica and $10 for Olympus. I negotiated the price down to $25 for both since the slower shutter speeds on the Yashica are hanging up and the Olympus was only intermittently turning on. When I got home and put fresh batteries in the Olympus it worked perfectly, however. The shutter speeds on my TL-Electro work fine until about 1/8 or 1/4 second or slower. At those slower speeds the shutter will close. When you move the film advance the shutter partially opens and then gets stuck. If you turn the shutter speed dial to a faster shutter, put pressure on the film advance and press the shutter release things start working again. I assume a cleaning, lube and adjustment is in order but not something I'm going to have done on a $15 camera. I've ordered some batteries to try out the meter. All in all a great addition to my Yashica 35mm SLR collection which has exploded in 2012.
Yashica TL-Electro (Large Image) (1972) See the discussion below about the history of Yashica. The Yashica TL-Electro is a fully manual 35mm SLR introduced in 1972. It takes Pentax screw mount lenses. The stop-down LED meter is powered by two PX640 batteries (2.7 volts total). Some versions are instead powered by one PX28 six volt battery. The manual is available at butkus.org. That site indicates the original batteries were two PX 640 1.35 volt mercury batteries for a total of 2.7 volts. You can get PX640 alkaline batteries today which are 1.5 volts each or a total of 3 volts. That site says it knows of one report of the alkaline batteries at the higher voltage of 3 volts burning out the meter LEDs. Other sites seem to suggest it should be okay, however. Photoethnography.com states that TL-Electro is almost identical to a Pentax Spotmatic II except the TL-Electro uses an LED meter instead of a match needle meter. The stop-down metering switch is in the same location as on the Pentax to the left of the lens. For stop-down metering I prefer the Mamiya cameras of the same era which used the film advance lever as the metering switch. Like the Pentax the Yashica TL-Electro is a solid, well made camera. Shutter speeds are from 1 second to 1/1000 second. Flash synch is at 1/60 second. It has a horizontal, cloth focal plane shutter. Mine has a Yashinon-DS 50mm f1.9 lens. Mine also came with a Tokina 80-200mm f4-5.6 lens and a small automatic flash. I bought my Yashica TL-Electro from an ad on Craigslist on June 28, 2012 in the Clairemont Mesa area of San Diego. I purchased this and Olympus C-2100 digital camera for $25. The price on Craigslist was $25 for the Yashica and $10 for Olympus. I negotiated the price down to $25 for both since the slower shutter speeds on the Yashica are hanging up and the Olympus was only intermittently turning on. When I got home and put fresh batteries in the Olympus it worked perfectly, however. The shutter speeds on my TL-Electro work fine until about 1/8 or 1/4 second or slower. At those slower speeds the shutter will close. When you move the film advance the shutter partially opens and then gets stuck. If you turn the shutter speed dial to a faster shutter, put pressure on the film advance and press the shutter release things start working again. I assume a cleaning, lube and adjustment is in order but not something I'm going to have done on a $15 camera. I've ordered some batteries to try out the meter. All in all a great addition to my Yashica 35mm SLR collection which has exploded in 2012.
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