The Samurai is a fine camera,I used mine on an extended South Island
(NZ) trip last year using it to shoot slide film (Velvia 50)the
results were excellent although I havn't mastered scanning and printing
them,most of the shots were taken on full frame neg. as well,hopefully
a recently bought new scanner will help (and if you can be bothered
nothing beats a projected slide in a darkened room for impact) the only
downside to the Samurai is that I often underexpose slide film by half
a stop or so and this cannot be done with the Samurai,the Velvia came
out fine at the DX set speed but I find Ektachrome especially shows
more saturation with less exposure than the official rating.
John Dowling. (p.s. welcome to the group)
On 20/05/2009, at 5:29 PM, smwedgworth wrote:

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> --- In halfframe35@yahoogroups.com, "rankhobbits" <8408fib02@...>
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> > --- In halfframe35@yahoogroups.com, "Dean" <deanws@> wrote:
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> > > At long last, after waiting months to be approved....
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> > Sorry for slow response, I'm not sure where our moderator is. Years
> ago I wrote something about the spammers and next thing I knew I'd
> been given moderator powers (I'd pass them on if I knew how, if anyone
> has more time and attention for this). I'm still using my Yashica Z-1,
> though, so still interested.
> >
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> Greetings Dean from BC:
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> You are the first half frame user I've encountered that uses one of
> the Yashica Samurai style cameras. I have a couple of them (X4.0 and
> Z2). They are such a delight to use, and I often put one in the hands
> of a grandchild. 72 shots goes quite a way with a kid. I'd be
> interested to see what you've been shooting.
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> R / Steve
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