Lifeguard Pirch on Lido Beach, Sarasota, FL
Yashica MAT-124G, 80mm f3.5 Yashinon, Fuji Provia

This is the northern entrance to Lido Beach in Sarasota, FL where you can find a lifeguard on duty during most daylight hours. If you look closely you can see the lifeguard that is on duty. I used sandcastles to give interest in the foreground as well as to form a lead in line to the lifeguard pirch and a person walking in the midground to give scale.

I used Fuji Provia for the shot then had it printed on Kodak Radiance paper.

The scan has some magenta on each side which isn't on the transparency but it is on the print. Perhaps it was the enlarger lens that they used or uneven development of the paper.

I sold my Yashica in Florida and now I regret it. It's a good camera that takes sharp images, is fairly simple to operate and has a bright viewscreen. There were only three negative aspects of the camera - it's got terrible bokeh properties, the shutter release would jam all the time and the viewfinder doesn't correct for parallax error.

Now I have a Rolleicord III with Xenar 75mm f3.5 in a 9 bladed Compur Rapid which has replaced it. The Rolleicord handily outperforms the Yashica.

Last modified 21 Mar 1999
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