Yashica 635

A twin-lens reflex is the most pleasant way to shoot medium format, and the Yashica 635 is the most interesting of Yashica's TLRs — the one model in the range built from the outset to run 35mm film alongside 120. You look down into a big waist-level finder at a bright square image, focus with the knob on the side, and shoot 6x6 negatives twelve to a roll on 120. This example carries the three-element Yashikor 80mm f/3.5 in a Copal MXV shutter, has been recently serviced, and ships with our own 3D-printed 35mm-to-120 adapters so you can shoot both formats out of the box.

Specifications

• Format: 6x6cm on 120 roll film, twelve exposures per roll; 35mm film via the included adapters
• Taking lens: Yashikor 80mm f/3.5, three-element design
• Viewing lens: 80mm f/3.5
• Shutter: Copal MXV leaf shutter, 1s to 1/500 + Bulb
• Viewfinder: Waist-level reflex finder with focusing hood
• Focusing: Knob focus
• Filter mount: Bayonet I
• Power: None required — fully mechanical
• Produced: 1958 to the early 1970s

Condition

• Cosmetic: Excellent+ condition with very minimal signs of age and use. The lens is clean and so is the waist-level finder.
• Functional: Fully working and recently serviced. Shutter fires accurately across the range, focus is smooth, film transport correct.

Included

• Yashica 635 body with Yashikor 80mm f/3.5 lens
• Film Cam India 3D-printed 35mm-to-120 adapters
• Empty 120 spool
• Strap

The Yashikor is a triplet rather than the four-element Yashinon fitted to later bodies — softer wide open with a gentle falloff toward the corners, and sharp across the frame from f/8. That is a characteristic rather than a flaw, and it is a large part of why these cameras render the way they do. Recently serviced, fully mechanical with no batteries to think about ever, negatives four times the area of 35mm, and our 3D-printed adapters included so you can run 35mm through it whenever you want to.