Mark Hama Yashica Mat

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Mark hama yashica mat.

Question good repair shops hi guys i live in southern california and was wondering if anyone had a good recommendation for a a fair and trustworthy repair shop. I ve read that mark hama is top notch and sent an email inquiry to him several days ago with no response. The first yashica tlr with crank advance was the yashica mat released in 1957 the earliest models are equipped with a 75 mm 3 5 lumaxar taking lens and a 75 mm 3 2 lumaxar viewing lens succeeded by 80 mm lenses with the same specifications. I have a yashica mat 124g in need of a little attention.

The standard yashica mat 124g lens focuses down to 1 meter. There are two original close up lenses available. I recently sent him two yashica s to be serviced. I just wanted to sing the praises of mark hama.

The yashica company made a long line of 6 6 tlr cameras comprising many models which were the result of a gradual evolution rather than radical change. Repairs on all brands. Film camera repair specialist. Looking to fix a leica m2 and a yashica 124g.

Mark s 40 years of e. They are conveniently divided into knob advance models and the crank advance models discussed here. Has been privately owned and operated by mark hama since september of 1990. And now let s get to the part where the yashica mat 124g starts to be system camera with its different add ons.

The covering of the camera was peeling off and cosmetically it was sort of beat up but that didn t bother me. Since then he has been yashica s service manager in the united states. These cameras are not that common so i will have to be a bit more patient. Anyways the mat came back today in perfect shape and he recovered the entire camera.

One was a mat that i just wanted cla d. Mark s 40 years of experience in cameras began in a yashica factory in nagano japan when he started building the mat 124g. I don t mind out of state recommendations but i would prefer things in so cal. Hama today and the delay of the repair on my yashica 35 yk is the availability of parts to repair the rangefinder.

2 that enables focus in the 36.