Originally posted by -spam- They should be. But my yashica mat doesnt have a frame counter window on the back, just a dial thing on the side
The camera is of a vintage not to have any sort of frame counter. Just the window.
Quote: hmm... is the window on the right hand side of the back part of the camera? Sort of just under the middle?
Get this....it is on the
bottom, next to the tripod screw. Talk about poor design....
Quote: Dont worry about the colour of that window. The backing paper on 120 is completely light proof. You would only start to have problems if the film wasnt winding on tightly and there was some slack in the film.
Oh, the very first roll I ran through it showed some very heavy green areas from the window. It showed through the paper alright. Now I am limiting it to ISO 100 film and keeping the slide over the window
shut at all times. Just going by counting turns on the crank.
I might look at picking up a Yashica (D or 124G) in the future. It would be nice to have a frame counter and the option of using 220 film, which is primarily what my local shop keeps in stock.