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Tips for Using a Point & Shoot Camera
many instances. Has anyone had a good experience with this camera. This is my first
experience with a point and shoot. it was nice having such a small camera and not my
OM1 to lug along.
-- kathy kane, February 22, 1999
I have had the Yashica T4 (older model, now: T5/T4 Super) for about 3 years now. It is a
nice P&S camera, cheap, with an excellent lens and exposes "correct" in standard
situations (also for slides). I take it with me, when I want to leave the heavy stuff at
home, or just as a supplement for the SLR equipement. The only problem I've had is that
the rewinded to early a few times (at about picture 20). -> Would buy it again with no
hesitation.
-- Philippe Wiget, March 2, 1999
A useful hint for people with active autofocus P&S cameras that lack an infinity focus
button, like the Infinity ;-) Stylus Epic, I found on
http://www.ans.com.au/~chrisb/photo/equipment/olympus/mjuii.html There Chris
Bitmead says:"The Epic doesn't have an infinity lock (useful to shoot through windows)
You can however get the camera to focus at infinity by covering one of the IR focus
sensors with a finger or whatever and then press the shutter button half way. Then
compose and shoot." That should do it. Though I didn't the results yet, I'm sure it will
help. By the way Phil, about your site: the more I use it, the more I admire the great
accessibility.
-- Lex Molenaar, March 5, 1999
I use the Yashica T4 for shooting stereo pairs. I originally had two of them mounted six
inches apart (lens-to-lens) on a bar, but have abandoned this system because:
1) I could never press the shutter buttons at exactly the same moment.
2) My dear Catherine "borrowed" one of the cameras eighteen months ago, and uses it so
much she has yet to return it.
In any event, excellent stereo pairs can be taken with this camera simply by shooting the
first picture with an object on the left side of the center circle, and the second with the
object on the right side. If the scene has a concentrated light source such as a fireplace,
there might be a problem with the difference in camera position resulting in different
metering, but if the light is not near the center of the picture, it generally isn't a problem.
-- John S. Wojtowicz, April 1, 1999
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