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kylemclean
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I recently found a Yashica Mat-EM at my grandmother's house. I asked her about it and she didn't even know what it was so it must of been her late husband's. So i turn to you M&A, what is shooting TLR like. How hard is it? Anything you can give me i would love to know
Jul 11 2015 10:27PM
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plorr
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TLRs are really really fun to shoot.

Just buy one of these:


and a bunch of this:


and go nuts.

Loading it isn't hard, theres plenty of youtube tutorials. The mirrored viewfinder takes some getting used to and nailing focus at larger apertures is pretty tricky, but you're gonna love composing on a big ass ground glass screen. Leaf shutter lenses are ace too. Basically no vibration or noise.
Jul 12 2015 1:49PM
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Laurent.
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Your neck will hurt.
Jul 12 2015 2:52PM
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