No, it’s not what it sounds like, and I didn’t buy it at Toys”Я”Us In fact, it’s a 1969 Yashica Electro 35 GT – one of the many fixed-lens semi-automatic rangefinder cameras produced in the 60s and 70s before SLRs became the ruling species on planet Photography.
This is the earlier version of the GT that doesn’t yet have gold-platet innards and only goes up to 500 ISO (the later GT(N) and GS(N) models go up to 1000.) I only just received it, so I couldn’t do much testing, but what I can say is that everything works, and after cleaning it up a bit the rangefinder is bright and clear and it looks just great
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