If I'm not mistaken, some Yashica Ds have Yashikor and some have Yashinon.
My Yashica D has a Yashinon lens (I believe it's a later model).
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From: "Conrad Samuels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: Help for shooting in an office
> Just one thing: IIRC the Yashica D has a Yashikor lens (check this out-
> not a Yashinon). The Yashikor is a triplet and the Yashinon is a Tessar
> design which is far better. So now, unless you stop down f5.6 or smaller
> you MIGHT have some unacceptable falloff around the edges. I owned
several
> TLRs so this seems to ring a bell. What it boils down to is that IF this
> is the case then you might as well use the Pentax since the results will
> likely be better over the negative area and you will be able to use the
> whole negative instead of cropping. Maybe you should use both.
>
>
> Conrad F. Samuels
> Kirstenhof SA
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