Yashica

He was wearing a weathered pressed suit and a fedora.

The man was holding what appeared to be an antique Yashica camera matching his vintage attire.

These cameras were common during the mid-1900s but were almost unheard of by 2006 people.

Concerned is confusion, reported the man to local police in the area.

Everything from the

Charmera all the way through anything that Yashica makes with their names.

Yeah, the Godox C100 I got here.

I got a whole bunch.

And I think I have a total of, not even counting the little action cams, I've got those three.

I've got a little point-and-shoot Yashica that I've been taking out.

So that's four film cameras.

I've got three digital bodies.

I graduated when I was like 16, 16 and a half.

And I was like, yeah, you know, maybe I could fix my Yashica.

And sure enough.

Yeah.

She's amazing.

And, and she had a camera, a Yashica camera that somehow she had.

And the teacher said, okay, I want you to take a picture of something beautiful.

dark black next to something white and we're going to teach you about the zone system which was this metering system is a metering system so that you can learn how to get your fucking lighting right so i went home and i was like i'm gonna put your i painted her face white and i and i laid her down in this box and i cut a little space for her neck and she laid her head down into this box and i filled i crushed up charcoal briquettes and i filled it up to her face and And then she was white with the black and then this bright sun.

The buttons are over there.

Yes, all SLRs are pretty much the same, whether it's Olympus or Yashica or whatever, and then you're just picking the lens system, but...

Still, going back and playing with that old stuff and then the tactileness of it is very, you know, it's very charming.

It's fun.

it? What brand is it? What are we shooting? It's

a Yashica FX3.

I've never

heard of that.

Yeah, I

heard of it.

I know Yashica.

It's nice.

The lighting was getting more skilled and beautiful and the productions were getting bigger and more skilled and composition and you know, I've got a library of photography books of just like the greatest photographers of all time and you know, that is my, that has been my reference.

through my life but kids these days grew up sort of seeing Jürgen Teller and um what's his name Terry Richardson sort of doing the exact opposite of that as a sort of reaction to that beautiful high production photography and going look I've got a Yashica T4 we can just snap it One of my favorite stories that I like to tell people and I tell you now is when I used to work in a high studio called Click in London.

We used to have a lot of big photographers come through and one day Jürgen Taylor was brought in to photograph Bjork for Vogue.

And his assistant, John Spinks, was upstairs with all these cameras laid out, different film formats, medium format, single form, SLRs, different film stocks, everything, all there.