Day September 11, 2019

My Mom

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A small remembrance of my Mom on the anniversary of her birth – September 10, 1916, in New York City.

Mom in Dress 1950s

My Mom Mary – the 1950s

Mom and Dad Queen Mary

Mom and Dad aboard a steamship, NYC, 1961. The photo was taken by me with my Dad’s Polaroid Pathfinder camera.

Miss you both, always! – Chris

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Unique Yashica TL Electro-X from Denmark – Update 1

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I’ve added some changes to my original post. It appears that there are two versions of this popular camera – the Type 1 and Type 2. I’ll share another post soon to cover the details. – Chris

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Many thanks to reader Jens Erik at http://www.jebsign.dk for sharing a photo of his Yashica TL Electro-X with me recently. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, it appears that a distributor of Yashica cameras and photo gear (Kirk) in Denmark had a rather neat twist on this popular SLR. Here’s the ad that ran in 1969 –

1969 April, Yashica TL Electro-X

Here’s Jens Erik’s Yashica – his TL Electro-X matches the one depicted in the Yashica ad from 1969 and it clearly shows that the “X” is black vice the typical red and that the gothic “Y” that would normally be on the pentaprism is “missing”.

tlelectroxdk An example of an early version of this popular Yashica. The lens is not the lens that would have been on the camera at the time of its release. I’ll call this version the Type 1.

Updated info as of September 2019. It now appears that…

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