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Just beyond the trio of buttons lies a switch that unlocks the camera and pulls back the shroud that protects the T4’s Carl Zeiss T* lens. Shooters who want to shoot with no flash will need to remember to turn it off every time the thing restarts, or risk startling a candid subject. Though it should be noted that every time the camera is turned off, the modes reset. I usually balk at the push-button menus of the 1990s, but there are so few modes here that switching between them is no more of a bother than manually focusing or setting shutter speed or aperture on a manually operated camera. All of these modes make for a surprisingly versatile camera, and the button used to switch between them isn’t an annoyance. A sun symbol appears on the LCD for daytime fill-flash, a night time symbol for low-light shooting with no flash, and an infinity symbol for infinity focus lock meant for landscape photography. There are only three buttons on the top plate – the shutter release, a self timer button, and a flash mode button which doubles as a mode selector. The Yashica T4 is a surprisingly flexible, capable camera. The T4 is one of the most well-designed point-and-shoot cameras out there, creating an overall package that’s everything a point-and-shoot should be – effortless, but capable. While it doesn’t completely demolish the competition in terms of raw capability or image quality, the T4 has a leg up in terms of design. While all that is true, in practice, the T4 performs at a level higher than almost every other point-and-shoot I’ve ever tried. If the T4 doesn’t offer anything different other than the Zeiss name and an above-average lens, then it doesn’t really amount to much in the 35mm autofocus point-and-shoot segment. In fact, I’d wager the T4’s legacy was cemented the moment “Carl Zeiss T*” was printed on the lens surround. It focuses down to 0.35m, which is a welcome feature in a point-and-shoot camera, but it isn’t a feature exclusive to the T4 by any means. So what’s the deal with the T4’s lens? It’s a sharp and contrasty lens owing to the timeless Tessar designed and perfected by Zeiss, and it renders colors very well owing to the same’s T* coating. The Nikon Pikaichi 元5AF features a faster and equally renowned 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar pattern lens, as does the much-hyped Olympus Mju-II and the higher end Contax T-series of cameras. The Yashica T4’s Carl Zeiss T* 35mm f/3.5 Tessar was and is still considered one of the best lenses ever dropped into a plastic point-and-shoot, and the reason the T4 has stood the test of time.Įven so, there’s still stiff optical competition for the Yashica T4. The saving grace of the Yashica T4 (and the reason why so many Yashica products from the ’80s and ’90s were so great) is the fact that it features glass designed by German optical powerhouse Zeiss. Decent specs for a point-and-shoot from the 1990s, but nothing that sets it apart.

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Its specs don’t encourage either it features a 3-point infrared autofocus system, a stepless shutter that bottoms out at one second and tops out at 1/700th of a second, a decent EV range of EV 3.5-17, a DX code reader that reads up to ISO 3200, and a decent looking integrated flash that’ll give you that head-on-apply-directly-to-the-forehead look.

For anybody who experienced products and design go the late 1990s through the early 2000s, the Yashica T4 will look and feel like everything else made in that era – weirdly bulgy and oddly slippery. The first interesting thing about the Yashica T4 is just how uninteresting it is. And it’s done so for true and honest reasons. After a few weeks with one I’ve found my position hasn’t really changed, but my appreciation for the camera has deepened. When the task of reviewing this camera fell into my lap, I almost did just that. It would then be easy to dismiss the Yashica T4 out-of-hand as an overhyped darling that doesn’t deserve any more consideration than the next 1990s point-and-shoot with a 35mm lens. We know this camera as being capable of a certain look (a e s t h e t i c) and associate it with a very particular kind of photography. The T4 is one of those cameras whose reputation often far eclipses the more salient points of its design, operation, and capability. It’s the Yashica T4.īut do we really know what this camera’s about? I think not. It’s none other than the poster child of the 35mm point-and-shoot inflation bubble, the favorite camera of questionably-motivated fashion photographers the world over (you know who I mean). A price tag that makes hypebeasts and unscrupulous camera flippers alike lick their lips. Hashtagged and upvoted shots of trendy streetwear-covered, moody-looking youngsters. Blown out portraits of swimsuit supermodels.

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