{"id":20175,"date":"2018-06-03T08:30:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T15:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=20175"},"modified":"2018-06-03T06:49:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T13:49:23","slug":"yashica-t4-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=20175","title":{"rendered":"Yashica T4 Zoom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My second go around with the Yashica T4 zoom with some better film, Kodak Portra 400 to be precise.\u00a0 You can see my previous post about this camera here Yashica T4 Zoom<\/a> with some information about how to set it to spot focus and other things.\u00a0 So I wont go into that on this post.\u00a0 What I will reiterate is that the Yashica T4 zoom has a \u00a028-70mm f4.5 to f8.0 lens comprised of seven elements in six groups.\u00a0 With better film and some decent light I found that the lens produced nice sharp images.\u00a0 At the wide end of 28mm there is distortion in the corners and vignetting as well but overall the results are very good for a point and shoot.\u00a0 One thing that is hard to quantify is the feel of the camera in use and for this the T4 Zoom is above average.\u00a0 It sits nicely in one hand and feels secure with the rubber ridge on the front.\u00a0 Without this its ‘bar of soap’ design might make it prone to dropping.\u00a0 As it is though it slips nicely into a pocket or small space in a camera bag yet handles well. There may be a little of a halo effect with this camera sporting the T4 and Zeiss badge but in reality it is just a good point and shoot not something that stands out above the rest of the crowd or warrants an exorbitant premium price.\n\t\t