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Dupe away 3 serial4/16/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Let’s start from a bit of technical geekery. The rolls then travelled quite a bit and were developed and scanned in Sreda Photo Lab in Moscow. I’ve bought a fresh 3-roll package of Kodak Gold 200 and took these two cameras for a walk in Berlin and Potsdam. It is widely available and cheap (about 15 times cheaper than Yashica T4 if you buy from eBay or you can also find them for peanuts in charity shops, flea markets etc.). It is a budget compact produced by Olympus at the beginning of the 90s. as Olympus Infinity Jr.) which cost me basically nothing and was fitting my experiment nicely. In a local thrift shop, I’ve found an Olympus AF-10 Super (also known in the U.S. The most important thing was to select a budget contestant to go against the Yashica. Since there was no such comparison available, I decided to make one myself and that’s what you are reading about now. Developed and scanned by the same lab using the same equipment and settings.Shots of the same scenes taken with both cameras at the same time with the same settings.Same film stock preferable from the same batch.a budget compact with a matching functionality What I wanted to have is the purest head-to-head comparison ever: There are plenty of reviews and comparisons available online but they didn’t satisfy me. ![]() If there is no real difference, T4 goes for sale. I was going back and forth like this for quite some time and decided that the only way to solve my issue is to compare my Yashica T4 to some other – and preferably cheap – point-and-shoot camera. And just like that my Yashica becomes a keeper again. This one shot changes everything and brings another thought: “Well damn, I see what all the hype is about”. Somehow, all the time there is one shot on the roll which I REALLY like. And I probably would do so already (especially taking into account the price it is going for now) but… Yes, there is always a “but”. So I just can’t help thinking that maybe it actually makes more sense to sell my Yashica T4 and put this money into something else. But every time I am going through another roll from it I am finding myself thinking: “So this is it? Is it really that different from any other camera?” Don’t get me wrong, the results are not bad. I see gazillions of positive reviews of it. I know that its Zeiss lens should be really good and especially for a compact camera. I happened to own a Yashica T4 and I have a very strange relationship with it. ![]()
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