Last year I became interested in film photography. I’m not sure what it was that piqued my interest but I decided I’d give it a shot. So just after Christmas I picked up a Yashica Electro 35 CCN, dubbed the “Poor man’s Leica”.
The CCN is a rangefinder camera built in the early 1970s that comes with a fixed 50mm f1.8 lens and is programmed to aperture priority, meaning the camera chooses the shutter speed based on how wide open you have the lens. I bought a few rolls of Kodak Portra 400 and loaded one into the camera. The shooting began.
It took a while to get used to the rangefinder optics. It’s manual focus (obviously) but you have to line up a small square in the centre of the viewfinder with the wider image surrounding it. This is why so many exposures from the first roll are completely out of focus. However, a few came out okay Even though I only got around 10 good shots out of a 36-exposure roll, I’m happy. See the results below.