35mm Rangefinder camera

-SOLD-

Very nice, clean condition. Made in Hong Kong. Serial number H 245379

ASA 25-1000. Copal Elect Shutter. Lens clean, no scratches, Color Yashinon DX 1:1.7 f=45mm, made in Japan.

Uses Radio-Shack 23-469A alkaline 6V battery (it's used up already); the battery holder is included. Original strap and camera body bottom case (which has signs of wear, but it's solid)

When I had the battery, everything worked, except for when trying to rewind the film, not all of it got rewinded back. So I don't know if it's a malfunction, or if I did something wrong either in operation or loading of the film.

$50.00

Info from the net: "The Yashica Electro 35 GS is a coupled-rangefinder, leaf-shuttered 35mm camera with aperture-priority automatic exposure. The Electro 35 GS/GT was released in 1970 by Yashica. The lens is a Color-Yashinon DX 1:1.7 f=45mm lens made in Japan. The rangefinder on the GS is not only fully coupled (i.e., focusing the rangefinder focuses the lens) but it also has built-in parallax compensation. The common problem with rangefinders is that they aren't fully What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get because of the small amount of parallax difference between the rangefinder window and the taking lens. With the Yashica, as you focus closer, the viewfinder gridlines actually move to compensate for the amount of parallax. This is important when taking headshots or pictures of found objects."

http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/YashicaElectro35GS.html