Yashica

I have all my cameras divided into categories, and one of the categories is expensive point-and-shoot cameras, and one of the shelves is cheap point-and-shoot cameras.

So I went to my expensive shelf and I pulled out a Yashica T4.

So there's a couple different T4s, but I've got here today, I've got the original T4, the black one.

And then I've got the T4 Super D. Oh, these are

Yeah.

And then they did come out with...

Oh, and the one thing the Minolta has, which the Yashica doesn't have, is the zoom, which it does have a 28 to 70 millimeter zoom on it.

So that's nice.

That's the thing.

Those TLRs like that and the Yashica mat.

Yep.

The Minolta auto cord.

There's a photo of him on his website in the 50s.

working in the Yashica factory in Japan.

And he just works out of his home in Alabama, or no, sorry, Georgia.

This guy, Mark Hama.

Don't go for the hyped cameras.

You'll see a lot of celebrities using Contax G2s, the T-Series, the Yashica T-Series.

They are selling for way more than what they're worth.

If you do want to get into film and 35mm, go for...

And this is where Nikon and Canon and all these companies are like, damn, we got to make that.

Yashica, all of these brands are inspired by not only Leica's designs, but also by this growth of 35 millimeter film.

But yes, Pentax is certainly there.

They're starting to form, but I would give the 1950s to Leica.

That time, these camera, mobile cameras were not there.

He was carrying his own Canon or Yashica camera.

I said that, "Yes, go ahead and click it." He clicked the picture, came and sat with me.

I said, I just moved the, uh, comment book in front of him to pen a few comments.