Another interesting review of another point & shoot. Used it in several holidays and other occasions and all you said is true. Still have the camera and lots of memories but moved on to other models since. It was good to travel back in time. Thanks for sharing.
Yes i agree with you. If you try and look around you can buy much better cameras of a similar vintage such as the canon af35m or the Minolta s2 himatic both are autofocus but have manual i.s.o setting allowing you to be creative and a filter threaded lens and take aa batteries. Maybe you should try one. Awesome Video by the way.
Thanks. Yes, Terry Richardson has indirectly elevated this camera beyond it's capabilities :) Now the Contax T2 is permanently unaffordable since one of the "Kardashians" has shown on TV that she uses it. 😰
Thanks for keeping it real. My Ricoh FF3 takes equally great fotos and costs a fraction. I picked up a Pentax af35 and that actually takes sharper pics almost like the canon mc.
Have any owners here experienced the film jamming mid-roll and freezing the whole camera? Midway through my second roll, the camera froze while I was taking a shot (the auto-focus stopped working, the rewind button wouldn't work, the protective lens door wouldn't close). The film finally rewound later that evening when I was poking at the rewind button out of desperation and everything has been normal ever since. Suggestions?
I tested the battery on another camera and didn't have any trouble at all. Furthermore, the camera has been working normally as if nothing happened since.
The T3 is the one to go for. Faster lens, better AF plus vertical finder, and still the awesome 80s design. Same basic lens design all the way through the series though. Still much too pricey for what it is. Just like the XA series the Stylus Epic or the Konica Recorder.
I'm generally not interested in autofocus-only cameras, I've had just too much trouble with them, even with modern digital cameras the autofocus often misses the target. So when I look at some used camera at a fleamarket or some such place the first thing I look is does it have manual focus. Rangefinders are brilliant but even just a simple distace scale is better than autofocus... But then of course sometimes there's something special about a simple point-and-shoot, a zeiss lens like in this Yashica or a brand name or something. Last year I bought a Praktica, probably made in Japan although it doesn't say so but anyway, for 50 cents. Cameras don't get much cheaper than that.
Masochism I guess. - honestly though, the cameras I whine about are the ones I think are built to last a very long time, but have a dependancy on batteries/electronics which I think limits their longevity. This one is a full-auto point and shoot plastic camera, so it wasn't really built to last forever.
I really like your honest verdicts and your eloquent language.
Thank you for the kind words :)
Can only second that :-)
Another interesting review of another point & shoot. Used it in several holidays and other occasions and all you said is true. Still have the camera and lots of memories but moved on to other models since. It was good to travel back in time. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching Vitor.
The T2 have a summer look. Which Zeiss is known for compare to the canon etc..
Nice honest review.. would love your opinion of the Stylus Epic.. prices have shot though the roof on those things. 👍🏻👍🏻
Didn't watch it yet but since I got one it's an instant like
Yes i agree with you. If you try and look around you can buy much better cameras of a similar vintage such as the canon af35m or the Minolta s2 himatic both are autofocus but have manual i.s.o setting allowing you to be creative and a filter threaded lens and take aa batteries. Maybe you should try one. Awesome Video by the way.
Thanks. Yes, Terry Richardson has indirectly elevated this camera beyond it's capabilities :) Now the Contax T2 is permanently unaffordable since one of the "Kardashians" has shown on TV that she uses it. 😰
Thanks for keeping it real. My Ricoh FF3 takes equally great fotos and costs a fraction. I picked up a Pentax af35 and that actually takes sharper pics almost like the canon mc.
Have any owners here experienced the film jamming mid-roll and freezing the whole camera? Midway through my second roll, the camera froze while I was taking a shot (the auto-focus stopped working, the rewind button wouldn't work, the protective lens door wouldn't close). The film finally rewound later that evening when I was poking at the rewind button out of desperation and everything has been normal ever since. Suggestions?
+Tianhaku might it be a low battery issue?
I tested the battery on another camera and didn't have any trouble at all. Furthermore, the camera has been working normally as if nothing happened since.
The T3 is the one to go for. Faster lens, better AF plus vertical finder, and still the awesome 80s design.
Same basic lens design all the way through the series though.
Still much too pricey for what it is. Just like the XA series the Stylus Epic or the Konica Recorder.
I paid £10 for mine.....😲⚠️😁
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upto £200 for the T4, ridiculous. i have a canon shure shot ace, great tlr style viewfinder on top.
I'm generally not interested in autofocus-only cameras, I've had just too much trouble with them, even with modern digital cameras the autofocus often misses the target. So when I look at some used camera at a fleamarket or some such place the first thing I look is does it have manual focus. Rangefinders are brilliant but even just a simple distace scale is better than autofocus... But then of course sometimes there's something special about a simple point-and-shoot, a zeiss lens like in this Yashica or a brand name or something. Last year I bought a Praktica, probably made in Japan although it doesn't say so but anyway, for 50 cents. Cameras don't get much cheaper than that.
Is this similar to yashica view af
Please someone answer me
You keep whining about cameras that require batteries, yet you keep purchasing cameras that require batteries... Why?
Masochism I guess.
- honestly though, the cameras I whine about are the ones I think are built to last a very long time, but have a dependancy on batteries/electronics which I think limits their longevity.
This one is a full-auto point and shoot plastic camera, so it wasn't really built to last forever.
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