About 5 years ago I went out to France and Barcalona for work and instead of taking my digital camera I decided to bring my old 35 mm Yashica T4. If you don’t know about this camera it takes amazing photos, dubbed one of the best point-and-shoots ever made. Even then I felt lucky to have one because Yashica discontinued the T4 early in 2002 – rumor is that they ran into licensing problems with Carl Zeiss lenses who armed the T4 with one of the best optical rigs you’ll find on a P&S. A couple people clowned me because it was a clunker and around that same time the smaller your digital camera was the cooler. Regardless of what everyone said I came back with 10 rolls of amazing pictures. The best part about it was when I got them developed I learned they started giving you a cd with all the images on there to upload to your computer as well. I ended up losing the cds and jpegs on my old computer but below are a couple from the trip I scanned from the physical copies (quality isn’t that great because of the scanner but I hope you get the idea). Anyways, I decided that I wanted to start bringing this beast around and taking more photos with it. Since I’m still trying to learn how to take picture’s I’ll make sure I keep you posted with the good ones.
Here’s a video I found of Terry Richardson using the same camera…
Be on the look out for more pics with the T4!
