![]() Timer button and Flash button to switch between the 4 flash modes. It doesn’t get anymore minimalist than this. Lens: Carl Zeiss Tessar 35mm, f/3.5 lens, 4 elements in 3 groups, T* (multicoated).that it has been picked up, used by American portrait and fashion photographer Terry Richardson who swears by it.Īnyway, sharing the specs that makes it a worthy everyday lug around street camera:.the beautiful tact sharp Carl Zeiss Tessar 35mm F3.5 lens it has,.Why legendary? Well some reading around seemed to suggest because of 2 reasons: Not those disposable one but fully fledged cameras worth their dime and so I took my time to read, ask and learn.Īfter few months of searching and I soon found in my hands (form a previous owner) a set of this once-forgotten and never much talked about but recently surfaced as a ‘legendary’ camera, the Yashica T4, a camera introduced in 1990. Not a stock or photoshopped image like what Daryl Aidan did but an image I shot of the OM1 my dad passed down to me.Īnd it was then later (yes I am so dumb), friends reminded me that there are fully automated film cameras around. It was with that nostalgia that I dug out my dad’s old Olympus OM1, a fully mechanical camera (not everyone will understand how a camera can take images without a battery but yes, they do exist) sent it for a full CLA and shot a few rolls.īut the issue of having to deal with a rangefinder manual style of focusing and of course, the costs of film development led me to put it back into the dry cabinet for a while. There is no preview, no playback, no delete and of course – no re-doing the same shot. This short para by Robert Adams nicely sums up the feelings I hold towards shooting film.Ī limited 36 exposures gifts the feeling of that all must be perfect before one decides to depress the shutter button.
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