![]() ![]() With larger hands, it can be a bit tricky to get your fingers in the grooves and to the shutter button, but you get used to it quickly. The grooves on the handgrip makes it very easy to hold the camera securely, even with one hand. This camera might not be a looker, but Yashica certainly did something right when it came to ergonomics. To make sure you can enjoy your T3 regardless the weather conditions, Yashica gave the camera some seals so you can shoot even when its raining with no worries. Together with a small display that shows your settings and a counter – that’s it. One unuagle is the extra „waist level finder“, or New Angle SCOPE finder as Yasica called it. And a protective slider / power switch for the lens. You get 3 buttons on top –shutter, self timer, and flash – and a rewind button at the bottom. The Yashica is quite interesting – you get the famous „Eagle Eye“ 35/2,8 Carl Zeiss lens, yet everything else on the camera is as bare bones as it gets. And after another 4€ for a new battery on amazon, I was ready to go. After some haggling, we agreed on 7€ – I guess I can call that another lucky day. It looked OK, small dings and marks but nothing that looked serious. It came with an almost dead battery – just enough to flash the no battery warning – so I took a bit of a gamle. So I did kinda have an idea what I was getting into. interestingly enough, I was reading up on alternatives to the sadly quite expensive Contax cameras, and the Yashica T3 was among them. I found my Yashica on a recent flea market trip – after shooting my Contax TVS for a while, I got into compact 35mm AF cameras, providing they have interesting qualities. But while lesser known, the Yashica T3 got a cult following over the years. When you think of T2 and T3 in regards to cameras, Contax might be the first that comes to mind. ![]()
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