Yashica 124 questions: meter/battery/"B" shutter

[martin_jiang1]

Hi all,

 

I just acquire a yashica mat 124 and I have some question, please

help.

 

1) How do I know the meter is working? How do I know the battery is

NOT dead?

I just can not make the yellow and red indicator align no matter what

light it is. any idea?

 

2) It appears the "B" shutter is not working, it sounds like a 1/30 to

me, could it be that it's use battery to open the shutter and the

battery is dead? ot a mechnical problem?

 

Thanks

 

Martin

[brian_aderer]

The meter should work when you flip up the waist level finder, if it doesn't, the meter is shot or the battery is dead. The battery is located in a small screw compartment on the side of the body. Take it into a camera shop and have them fix it for you. It sounds like yours probably only needs a new battery (most do).

 

Bulb often sounds like 1/30 when you don't keep it depressed. If you are keeping the button depressed, and it still sounds like that, than the shutter's defective.

[terry_carraway]

If you are trying to use an alkaline battery, you may not be able to get it to work right. The mercury cell for this meter was 1.35V, alkline batteries are 1.5V when new.