Talking about Yashica 44

I have this camera since two years now, month more or less, and it's given me joy and sadness both. Let's clarify that that sadness came for my bad, cause I somehow made an error during the loading of the film. This camera was a gift to my grandad from one of his brothers and, I'm not sure, but I don't think it was uesed much. The first film I used was bought in Venice in a nice little shop, the other two on the internet. It uses a 127 mm film, black&white and it's great for both street photography and architecture photography. At this link you can have a look at the manual: http://www.butkus.org/chinon/yashica/yashica_lm_44/yashica_lm_44.htm

Yashica 44, 44A, and 44LM were a series of small twin-lens reflex cameras, they give 12 exposures of 4x4 cm. The 44 model was first introduced in Japan in 1958 and it was surely inspired by the gray Baby Rolleiflex of 1957. The Yashica 44 featured crank film advance, with automatic frame spacing after the user aligned the number "1" in a red window. However a separate lever cocked the shutter, and there was no interlock to prevent double-exposures. The Copal SV shutter offered speeds from 1 to 1/500 seconds plus B in the standard geometric sequence; and the lens was a 3-element Yashikor 60mm f/3.5. (from camerapedia).

I've been very happy with the one film I took last year and I'm about to finish another one. This camera is great to work on multiple exposures! The other interesting thing is the POV of the pics, it's naturally "alienated" beacause of the twin-lens and because you don't shoot at eye-level but below.