ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (09/22/84)
Sure, I used to have one. My sister dropped it out the second story window. The lens is bent, but it still appears to work. Mine however was a Yashica Electro-35 GT (or GE). I think that either yours is different (maybe) or perhaps you don't understand how it works. The first ring on the camera has switches from 1/60th of a second (for flash, lightning bolt), automatic mode, and bulb. The next ring is apeture. Then focus. The self timer wizmo sticks out of the lens as well. When in auto mode, the shutter speed is selected automatically with regard to the f-stop' selected. If the required speed is too fast for the shutter to handle a red light (visible both on the top of the camera and in the finder lights up). When the speed drops too low for hand held shots a yellow light is illuminated. There is no indication other than this as to what shutter speed is going to be used for the picture. An interesting feature is that the film speed dial opens and shuts a little two-bladed iris over the light meter. The shutter is made by copal. They were damn rugged and handy little rangefinders. I did have a macro adapter. It consisted of a thing that went in front of the lens and a big retangular outrigger lens that went in front of the finder. Was pretty cheap. The whole camera was selling new for $70-100. I don't expect the current value to be that great. It was another in the series of lowend rangefinders (there was a comparable Minolta too). -Ron