P&S: Yashica t4

this makes me depressed.

Him and mario testino. oy.

Call me a snob. I don't care what *brand* camera you use. But you should have more control over it than those, no matter how good a P&S is, it's still a P&S.

I should sell all my MF and LF equipment, by a Polaroid spectra, and enter the high end fashion world.

*finger*
 
it is not about camera...

it is not about camera...

it is not about camera...
it is only about what works for you and your objective.
god bless Terry Richardson... (and those like him)
if you know anything about him, he is a very well studied photographer, (assistant to his father Bob Richardson for many years)
can light and shoot his ass-off...
it just makes sense to him now to use P&S, and so be it.
i don't care what camera's people use to get what they need.
 
People like him that know what they are doing, but chose to use a certain camera ok fine, but people that don't have a clue what they are doing, but think they are professional photographers with their little point and shoot annoy the hell out of me. The only thing they are doing is driving down the industry.
 
I don't know who the guy is, nor I am to look for, and some clues appear at the clip.

The interesting thing is the P&S use. I disagree with post here.

Using a P&S is in no way degrading, nor a toy. Just find the propper situations in which it will give you good results, and provided you have those situations you will enjoy and benefit from it.

And the T4 is an appealing P&S...

Cheers,
Ruben
 
The T4 is a connoisseur's P&S. At bottom if his pictures are good, who cares what he uses? In fact, a camera like this frees one up for the important stuff -- subject matter and composition.
 
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.... but people that don't have a clue what they are doing, but think they are professional photographers with their little point and shoot annoy the hell out of me..
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People that don't have a clue what they are doing, but think they are professional photographers with their little point and shoot amuse the hell out of me

People that don't have a clue what they are doing, but think they are professional photographers with their big expensive cameras amuse the hell out of me even more.

The T4 is a nice camera, good for taking pictures, like the Leica. I have several of each.
 
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The T4 is no slouch and I have never been embarrassed using mine.

Bob
 
I've owned a T4 thanx. Takes great photos you are right, but the fact remains if you haven't got a clue what an f-stop or shutter speed is and take garbage shots, you shouldn't call yourself a professional photographer. It is just plain rude to all of those people that put in years learning their craft. I will give you that there are plenty of those same people using the top of the line cameras as well I just didn't mention that because this thread was about a P&S camera. :)
 
If you doubt what a photographer can do with a point & shoot,
have a look at David Bradford's "Drive-By Shootings".

It's a book of amazing photographs by a working NYC taxi driver
taken entirely with a Yashica T4 camera.

Chris
 
Lots of great stuff can be done! How many here use them! Hell, one of my favorite cameras is my little T2! Granted it has f-stops, but still!
 
The problem with the T4 is not so much the lack of f-stops as the lack of exposure compensation. I admit that I don't use them much (I ended up with two of them) but they work best with wide lattitude C41 color film. Of course if your subject is not too light or dark you'll end up with very good exposures.... The lens is quite good. I used to use the T4 when working on assignments in b&w (for which I used film SLRs, Leicas, or MF) but still wanted the ability to shoot some color "for the record". Now I use digital for that.
 
It's a great stealth camera! It has the (admittedly small) waist level finder that enables shooting from the hip. Also, the wind motor is low frequency and therefore quite a bit less obtrusive than a high-pitched motor.
 
Very sharp lens. A widely under-looked at camera--for what it is...Turn the flash off, drop in 400 print film, and it's very stealth.
 
the waist level finder is only on some of them- the deluxe or super edition (can't remember the exact designation) Both of mine are the "normal" ones w/o the WL finder... with the zoom version the lens loses speed as you'd expect. I have NO interest in the zoom version whatsoever.
 
I agree, the T4 is a nice camera, and it is "weatherproof" for what that is worth. Nothing wrong with using point and shoots. Aside from what has been mentioned, there is also Moriyama Daido who uses the Ricoh GR1. And Robert Frank used a Rollei 35 for The Americans, as did Stephen Shore for American Surfaces, IIRC, although the Rollei does afford more control.
 
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