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Yashica: Modded

My Yashica EZ F521 with several modifications.

1) Hotshoe mount for the Holga Fisheye Viewfinder attached (superglued) to the top of the camera.

2) Holga 120 CFN lens body mounted onto the Yashica body. This took some severe mutilation of the Yashica's "lens" housing (filed down to the screw mounts on the external side of the housing). Using electrical tape and cardboard, the lens body fits snugly onto the Yashica lens housing. I removed the plastic Holga lens from the lens body, which would not have worked with the Yashica lens (with tape, you can easily reassemble the original Holga lens and put it back on the 120 CFN, I have tried it and it works fine). The "lens" now gives the Yashica natural vignetting, which can be adjusted by sliding the Holga "lens" closer or farther from the body. Close against the body gives very slight vignetting, sliding slightly outwards can give moderate to very exaggerated vignetting.

3) Plastic filter added instead of the standard Yashica version (as it wouldn't fit into the Holga lens body). This was taken from a flashlight (the 2 AA MAG type). This protects the actual Yashica lens from getting dust on it, and also provides some unique effects. As it is cheap plastic, the suns rays are often reflected. Also, as it is easy to adjust simply by poking it with your finger, pushing one side inwards (making it sit diagonally in the lens body) and can cause some unique warping and soft focusing effects.

4) With the Holga 120 CFN lens body, the Holga 120 Fisheye Lens and the Holga LFH-120 filter mount both fit perfectly onto the camera. (Note, for a more dramatic fisheye effect, remove the Holga lens body and apply the Fisheye directly to the camera).

5) (not shown) Hand-made flash filters which slide underneath the Fisheye viewfinder and are tucked in behind the lens, covering the overly-bright flash. Used paint markers (red and blue), and plastic from the flashlight's packaging mentioned in #3).

Updated mods can be seen here: v2.0 and v3.0

Taken on: October 11, 2010

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