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Nov 05, 2011
Yashica t4 can easily beat with quality most of the nowadays SLR cameras!
4 of 6 found this helpful The Yashica T4 is one of those all too rare consumer cameras that strives to be something more, and succeeds. Yashica marketed and priced the T4 as a low-end consumer camera, $130 for the first version of the T4 when introduced in 1992 (the T4 Super was later introduced in 1996). However, its multi-coated Carl Zeiss T* lens, fixed at 35mm, proved that this point & shoot camera could produce photographs that were anything but "low-end." The Japanese made, compact 35mm camera consistently performs as well as cameras priced 3 and 4 times as high. The T4's merging of quality with affordability was no accident though... well, maybe it was depending on how you look at it. It was one of those rare moments in capitalist history when a business venture benefited the consumer almost as much as it benefited company.
Leading up to 1973, Carl Zeiss had been producing lenses of unmatched quality for professional cameras, produced by companies like Rollei and Hasselblad. However, like any well run business, Carl Zeiss was looking for a way to grow, and a successful line of cameras was the way to do it. So in '73, Zeiss approached Yashica of Japan, a brand with a reputation for producing cameras of decent quality, but also perceived as a cheap brand. At the time, most would have thought that this partnership would have prevented the venerable lens maker from accomplishing it's goal of expansion, but Yashica's newly engineered electronic shutters were enough for Zeiss to overlook the Japanese camera maker's public image. Yashica began producing SLR cameras for Zeiss under the Contax name. Fast forward to 1992, Yashica introduced the pocket sized T4, sporting a 35mm f/3.5 multi-coated Carl Zeiss T* lens that outperformed every camera in its class, and will continue to for decades to come.
Sadly, Yashica (owned by parent company Kyocera since 1983) discontinued its production of the Yashica T4 Super in 2002. Despite rumors that Yashica's halt in production of the T4 was due to a dispute between the two companies that resulted in Zeiss pulling Kyocera's license to produce their lenses, the truth of the matter is much less dramatic. With the onslaught of digital in the 2000's, Kyocera decided to pull the plug on producing cameras altogether and started chasing money in different directions... one being the production of solar energy systems in Arizona.
So what's the moral of this story? Treat your T4's well, because they are an endangered species that are, unfortunately, incapable of reproducing.