https://blog.almostinfocus.com/tags/yashica/ Recent content in Yashica on Almost in focus Hugo en-US Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://blog.almostinfocus.com/posts/how-to-clean-the-taking-lens-on-a-yashica-mat-124g/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://blog.almostinfocus.com/posts/how-to-clean-the-taking-lens-on-a-yashica-mat-124g/ <p>Two years ago, my wife and I went to a retrospective exhibition of photographs by Sabine Weiss. After the exhibition, my wife pointed to a poster of Sabine holding her Rolleiflex TLR camera and asked what kind of camera it was and why it needed two lenses. I told her it was a medium-format camera and explained that one lens takes the photo while the other is used for the viewfinder. Unlike in an SLR, the mirror doesn&rsquo;t move out of the way when you take a picture.</p>