Kyocera T-Proof (Yashica T5) Compact Film Camera Review and Photos

Описание: All y’all know exactly which cliché this review could easily be built around. I never expected a camera this size to take great pictures. Maybe the Contax cameras, sure, but not really anything else. Compact cameras that could take a good photo were, to me, few and far between. On a whim, I tried the T-Proof, based on its reputation as both the T-Proof and T5 as a great camera. It’s quirky, has some weird features, like the impossibly-tiny waist-level finder that just feels like a gimmick, but it’s a great camera and the images it created consistently outperformed what I expected, with an asterisk. That asterisk is that this camera needs good film. Shooting Portra 400, for instance, yielded stunning image results. Shooting UltraMax 400, as a counterpoint, did not.

Among the things in the T-Proof that work well, the Zeiss lens should always be named first. The little 35mm f/3.5 never felt too wide, rarely felt too narrow, and consistently delivered good image quality across the frame. When cameras like this were released, in general, the images that labs returned would crop some of the frame. Often, images would be little more than APS-C-sized crops blown up to the print size. Many nineties cameras had decent to good center sharpness because that was what would generally be enlarged, and the peripheries of the image circle could be trashed. Not the T-Proof, though. The images in the is video are either completely uncropped or cropped minimally. This lens lets the entire frame be used and used well.

The T-Proof, to me, is proof that a camera this size can be good and, I think this is a huge compliment, it led me to start exploring the compact camera space and as I record this I’m using a Ricoh R1S and have an Olympus Trip 500 and Olympus Epic DLX en route. I would have picked up neither of those had the T-Proof not delivered much better than expected. Until a year ago – today – when my T-Proof arrived from Japan, I wrote off the entirety of the compact camera market as silly and low-end with no serious potential to be a good photographic tool. Any camera that can change the perspective of someone who has completely written-off a whole market segment, well, that’s gotta be a good thing.

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