Yashica Y35 Field Test
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- What do you get when you combine an iconic camera brand from the past with a crowdfunding campaign for a 'rangefinder' camera? The Yashica Y35, that's what. Watch Chris and Jordan try to make lemonade out of a lemon.
Thanks to Chelsea and Tony Northrup!
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This episode was shot on the Yashica Y35s.
bwwwwwhahaha
Why do they dooo it?
oh hey look who it is, can you move your eyebrows now?
Would it be good with a flippy screen, though? That's the question we need to be making here
Yashica. You've got a sensor the size of a baby duck, why do you doooo it.
“I thought they liked us?” Best opening
That laugh @ 4:56 needs to become a ringtone.
Ringtone? People still use them🤔?
Nightmare fuel, lol!
The DJI Pocket Osmo is on the way now... That should answer the question of whether we like you.
I think you managed to get some of the best shots I've seen from this camera/toy 😎
Thanks! In the end it's a camera. Photos are from the eye more than anything else. Also I did really have a fun time with it. I'll never touch it again though. :)
Review more garbage cameras please.
David Ransom still aha better rolling shutter than the EOS R.
Yes !!!! Hahaha I’ve never clicked faster to watch a video 😂
Hopefully, one that doesn't cost $200 .. How about one that costs $20.
2:30 Actually, There is something 6x6 about it. It's a 1/2.5" sensor, which is 5.76mm high. So you can say a square image is 6x6mm film format. ;-)
i think i have a camera with the exact same sensor, same rolling shutter, same horrible white balance, and i think it's smaller than that
4:56 the people who made this camera laughed exactly like that when they came up with this monstrosity
Those were legit some of the best photos I’ve seen out of that camera! When I first saw the kickstarter I liked the sound of it at first but was skeptical and didn’t bother buying one. I’m so glad I stuck to proper film cameras instead.
If your subject had been a freckled Swedish model backlit in B/W would have
made it into Vogue magazine.
Want to shoot a vintage camera? Buy one. With a $200 budget you can do a lot better. By the time you hit $200 with the film purchases and processing costs you'll likely have had more fun than you will have with the Y(oh Y)35.
That camera is an insult to the Yashica brand. We all know that Yashica doesn't exist anymore.
I bought the Yashica Electro 35 in 1971. You would called it a piece of crap as well by today's standards but it did its job and captured some of the most memorable photos I've ever taken. What a bunch of sooks we've all become. I was 19 years old and bought it from the PX a week after arriving in Vietnam. For me personally, this video is a wake up call as to what photography really is all about, and for that I thank you.
The Yashica Electro 35 isn't a piece of crap unlike this abomination.
@@gavinwade349 Absolutely, it's not an accident that these scammers abused its likeness...
My Electro 35 was never a poor camera. The craftsmanship is good, the lens is great, and the concept worked. Hard to find the batteries for it now.
I appreciate this review. Weird "trash" cameras have been some of my favorites. I use a Finepix 4700, from 2000, all the time because its fun and it reminds me of my childhood. Am I saying the Y35 is worth 200 bucks? well... I'd buy one just for the fun of it...
If it was 5 bucks in a thrift store!
Best episode ever. 4:56 is golden
“Let us know if you want us to review more garbage cameras” hahaha! You’re right Chris, what a shame they trashed the name of Yashica... they were really nice cameras back in the day.
This is the king of old school camera
I think you captured the overall garbage quality well. I hated the camera and all it stands for, but enjoyed watching your presentation of it. If you’re short of cool new equipment releases but you have a fun piece of junk lying around, an entertaining video is always welcome.
I have some ideas for next videos
$100 smartphone (Maybe Xiaomi Redmi 6A) vs $100 point&shoot vs $100 handycam.
Flagship smartphone vs entry level DSLR with 18-55mm - JPEG prints and blind tests on amateur people? It would be very interesting to see what random people seek in photos (proper exposure, natural colors or what?) and we could end up with interesting conclusion.
Amateur sports on budget - superzooms like FZ1000 vs Canon DSLR with 55-250mm STM
I cant find videos like that which are done in good way. We already have a lot of reviews of expensive stuff like EOS R. Please try to make more budget options... and even "too budget"/shit options like this Yashica because its very funny to watch:)
AXYZE pro photographer cheap camera seems a little up your alley.
@@tinyman392 I know this series, it was AMAZING and you could learn so much about breaking camera limitations. Sadly Kai W doesnt do it anymore:(
The more videos you can create, the better. So whatever comes to mind or whatever garbage is delivered as a gift, just run with it and make us smile!
Fun video, and the photos Chris took probably gave the camera more positivity than it deserves.
For a moment there, I thought Chris actually likes the camera!
Okay, I paid $200 for my Fujifilm X100 and it is a fun camera in 2020. Way back in 1974 I bought a Yashica fixed lens range finder camera in Naples, Italy when I was in the Navy, that was my first real film camera. I purchased the X100 because it reminds me of the good ol days of range finder cameras.
Absolute, daylight robbery...... And agree, who the f### sold them the yashica name.....
Someone who's about $1.000.000 better off.
Kyocera did sell, who else?..
Man i had a lot of fun watching this episode and i think i'm gonna watch it each time i have a boring day. Thanks
My favorite episodes by you guys are Unsung Cameras and fun field tests like this. Also props for not using generic EDM/trap music like every other channel out there, the more folk and jazz tunes go well with exploring Calgary!
To be honest i expected the images to be worse for some reason. Its not that bad. Just having fun with it is the thing that matters. But i guess whats disappointing is the kickstarter bit of it and all. Not sure id back/purchase this thing because the kind of photos it produce i can shoot it with Hipstamatic for iOS or some other apps...
The images were much better than expected! I noticed that on 1600 and 6x6 it sort of actually looked like film... I mean, the crap colors and blown highlights of 1600 and the tinge on the 6x6! I liked it! Hey, if you don't want it, you can just ship it to me! :D
This camera definitely taught people the concept of buyer beware. It sounded great on paper (or I should say, Kickstater) but something told to me to wait and see what happens with it. I'm glad I did!
Glad I found my dad's 1968 Yashica Electro 35. Lol. It hasn't seen light since I've been alive. (over 23 years) I fixed the POD and I'm on my first test film. Wish me luck!
Yashica Electro 35 was my first camera!!! You made me nostalgic Chris with this Yashica...!!
Definitely would like to see more content like this, it adds a nice balance of humor into the mix!
Still shooting mine over a year later. Niche camera...Art camera for sure. It’s fun and very quirky. Great fun shooting experience. Yes, handle it gently, and take a small bag for the “films”. But I don’t see this as a camera that made any “game changing” promises to begin with. A good photog can take good pictures with it. Maybe leaning on a computer to take good shots is not the mark of greatness! Hmmm.
This is like the most positive review for this camera I have ever seen. XP
The people producing and selling this camera must be laughing all the way to the bank. Was that a mold line alont the side of the lens. I wonder if there is a defunct medium format brand out there that they can turn to next?
There are mold lines on the mold lines of this thing.
Like this: www.kickstarter.com/projects/rolleiinstantcamera/rolleiflextm-instant-kamera ?
*shudder*
@@r3dn0w It looks like they raised £250,000 for that shit too. Is buying classic film camera names and releasing appalling digital cameras (or in this case a polaroid) for a ripoff a business model now then? I suppose there will always be that type that will buy things like this though.
Another reviewer found discovered the sensor/board in this "Yashica" was from a dashcam.
The cristmas gift intro got me already
You guys are the first people that have managed to get some sort of reasonable images out that plastic turd! I am glad I didn't put 100 dollars into that thing.
I can't believe you've done this
Save your money and buy a Vistaquest vq-2005, it shoots gorgeous colors and it costs about $15-$20. My favorite digital toy camera!
It is a good idea, just a bad implementation. I'd also add basic SD cards into the cartridges so they could hold up to 36 frames. Otherwise, if the quality were better, would've been a great gift option.
It's not even a good idea. Most modern cameras have the functions that the cartridges have already built-in, and more. You just go into the menu and choose your style. This system is way more complicated and offers you less.
Oh god, you dared :D
Can we have the blooper video showing all the rage during the shooting :D
This isn't a Yashica camera. It's a plastic toy with a Yashica label on it.
I do however have a Fuji and love the analog dials. You sort of also understand why Leica is still popular.
Fuji said they aren't making a full frame, Panasonic FF is a modern design but I think if Olympus made a FF with the analog look of the Olympus Pen I think that it would be a hit (as long as price competitive
If you haven't tried the polo D7200, please do. I'm really curious how bad that camera is.
Giggling Chris reminds me of my crazy uncle
Wonderful episode. Please, give us more!
It may be a piece of trash but damn, this was a comfy little vid. More garbage camera reviews please.
Wait.. I've never been to a video of yours so early! Isn't it like 2 or 3 a.m. over in Calgary right now? Nice review. I also think that you've captured the garbage quality well.
I shot my honeymoon photos on a Yashica FRI back in 1987. I borrowed it from my dad. He never got it back.
If at all possible, I would love Chris to do more sound effects in the future. I'm thinking shuttersounds and that cheap winding sound a disposables camera used to make. Thanks in advance.
I love yashica. I had some gears of CY system, and its one of my favourites mechanicals cameras. And my favorite "dead system". Yashica ml 50 2 - my favorite cheap 50mm lens, with this cat's eye bokeh. And FX-3 its a very good cheap basic SLR, i prefer it more than pentax k1000. I also really enjoy with unique 42-75 3.5-4.5 lens.
Also Yashica famous by their TLR 6*6 cameras and 35mm fixed lens rangefinder and compact cameras.
I hope Chris and Jordan will show, what is true Yashica brand cameras looks like.
This was a fun video, we need more stuff like this.
Great video of a god awful camera. You still managed to get some interesting shots though. If we are talking about looking at a small walkaround camera with filters and a fun factor i would be interested to see what you thought of using a Pentax Q camera for 2019. To me it would provide what this Y35 aims for but would deliver it much better.
He's reviewed the Pentax Q before.
@@marckydasaint8730 sorry about that. I will check out his 2019 review when i get home from work.
HAHAHAH that giggle!!!!
I feel there's a need for retro feel cameras. The ones you crank the levers, twist the knobs, focus with split image or rangefinder, but still with the digital sensor. Something more up to date than Epson RD-1 and significantly less pricy than Leica M-A could find a place in many bags.
$200 is almost enough to get a Yashica Mat 124 or 124G.. Now, those are legends.
According to Point&ShootClub’s teardown of the camera, it uses the image sensor and chipset from a dash cam. No joke.
It's a new generation thing, for kids who know only digital, and things like film, magnetic tape, diskettes or vinyl/shellac records are totally new and cool for them. Some of them have a kind of quirk about mechanical switches, knobs, dials and incessant fiddling with them even if they have something else down below to fiddle with (yes, Chris, I'm in line with beeps in this Y35 video, even if that remark is rather Kai's style).
Last week I went onto a crusade (successful, unlike the real historical crusades) of talking one 19-year old out of getting a Marantz cassette field recorder and saving for a Nagra VI reel-to-reel to boot instead of getting a proper Zoom H4n or, if he still wants knobs, H5 or H6. Yesterday he reported me that he has got an H4n and at a bargain price at that, but still he wants something tactile. Okay, Marantz PMD-222 and, moreover, Nagra are venerable devices, reliable and indestructible but, well...
My older friends (28 and 34) mess with film, instax and vinyl, but at least in the latter case it is a nostalgia rather than a lure of novelty.
I'm 37 and I had my good share of all things analog. Never filmed an analog video apart from couple of 8mm rolls when I was 13 with a 1960s wind-up camera (not even VHS, I'm all digital in that regard from the start even though a film cine camera isn't alien to me), but shot kilometers of 135 and 120 film in the late 1980s (since the tender age of six),1990s and early 2000s, and throughout all my teen years wound audio cassettes with a BIC pen. Enough is enough.
Okay, I find all-dial dashboards of older airplanes, helicopters, marine vessels and lab equipment beautiful and have a sweet spot for 1930-60s flying machines but when it comes to actual flight or seafaring “glass cockpit” is better. One thing I'm not willing to part with are analog mixing consoles: it's just easier to deal with a board where you see all knobs, faders and their positions at once than scroll through a tablet screen to find that rogue effect on line 25 return. Also I like button-and-dial functionality of my DSLR and camcorder although not to an extend to trade an EOS-1 for a Fuji or Sony.
My 4-year old and 3-year old nephews never had a chance seen a record, a tape, a film, an analog radio receiver or a rotary-dial phone yet. Not even a CRT display or a classic TV (parents of one have no TV set at home, another one's parents have a 60" flat panel), a payphone (they are next to being completely extinct in Moscow, Russia) and - lo and behold! - a fixed-line phone at all! Maybe not even a classic cellphone with buttons because everyone around them have smartphones from their day one. Probably in cartoons and picture books they did but I doubt they paid any attention. The 4-year-old is absolutely obsessed with Transformers and all things robotic (he goes to Lego+Arduino kids club instead of daycare; none of his relatives have anything to do with anything of that kind). The 3-year-old is hooked on Disney Cars and everything on four wheels (both of his parents are excellent drivers and know their way with vehicles) so he may have some vague ideas of the 20th century devices.
Good points, and very true, but does it give companies the right to sell garbage to unwitting folks?
Great episode guys !!!
This camera has devalued my yaschica electro 35.
George Damis lol same
I get the idea behind it. I love the fact that it got no screen. But the camera just doesn’t make sense to me
I think you should do a shootout between this and the oldest functioning camera phone you can dig up! 🤯
Want more? You bet!!!
Thanks.
I want a box camera like a Kodak Brownie or Agfa Box with rudimentary controls and a 6X9 sensor
if you want a fun camera to muck around with that has a vintage feel and doesn't break the bank... get an old 35mm! can get Canon ae1s for v cheap on ebay these days, for instance.
Here are some of the issues and complaints being shared:
The camera turns off when the shutter is pressed
The camera doesn’t even turn on
The camera is plastic and cheaply made
Camera parts are breaking and falling off
Fake buttons molded into the plastic just for looks
The camera is hard to hold while pressing the shutter
Many backers have yet to receive their cameras and haven’t had any updates on the status
Awful image quality comparable to cheap toy cameras for kids
Incorrect labeling on the fake film rolls, resulting in mismatched photo styles
Black-and-white photos coming out blue
An unreliable shutter button that doesn’t always trigger a photo when pressed
The shutter takes photos on the way up instead of when its fully pressed down
A shutter button so stiff that it’s unusable
The winding lever gets jammed and needs to be manually pushed back
Stickers on the camera have bubbles and are defective
Photos can’t be found after they’re captured
Difficulty inserting digiFilm rolls into the camera
Removing the lens cover caused the lens to separate from the camera body
An included cable that isn’t compatible with the camera
Photos are out of focus and distorted
I have the original Electro35. I remember battery is hard to find nowadays. Too bad. I'll stick to my Nikon F & F2, my Canon AE-1, and my Hassleblad 500CM.
is there any alternative to this that's worthwhile?
The ISO200 and B&W cartridges don’t seem to give TOO bad results - albeit not really any better than you’d have seen from an early 2010s iPhone - but the Square and ISO1600 cartridges just look awful.
canon had a card thing years ago and it was populat this was also popular hence the kickstart, like shooting on film people will do anything to try to get success easily
Has anything good come from a Kickstarter campaign?
John Matthews peak design.
Yup, agree. Peak Design.
cat versus baby hehe
Still waiting for my LAB-BOX, lol
I have a couple of Breakthrough ND filters from Kickstarter. I think you have to be really specific what you back, and a bit of luck is not a bad thing...
Shoot me (with the Y35, that is), but I actually liked the B+W "Flower" shot at 3:39, but probably needs some cropping...
Also how about a Coolpix 950 20th anniversary review? (You need the three add-on lenses and an IR filter BTW. Or at least the fisheye as it's a fabulous piece of glass...)
You can get an amazing film camera with lens and a lot of film for $200. These were a million dollars that could have been put into the dying film industry.
Am I the only one who thinks these shots actually look pretty much like old film throwaway cameras? Doesn't appear to be a TOTAL disaster... but then again, I haven't held it! Also NO DUAL CARD SLOTS!! RAGE RAGE RAGE
The throw away cameras were 5 bucks about.
This thing 200 though.
Ro Rebbel So in that case, the Yashica Y35 pays for itself after you take about 40 throwaway cameras worth of photos! I guess most people will be sick of it long before that point 😂
Yes, it is a total disaster.
@@MichaelSeneschal physically, it looks like a disaster in build quality. But the photos were kinda cute and filmy-looking. I'd have to see them on my own computer to really judge it.
Yeah, i also honestly think most of the pictures are coming out quite nicely.
Maybe review some fun / great print things, like small thick business cards, pictures made for fun places like the car, the fridge and so on
Alberta has never looked so exceedingly lovely and majestic as the images captured by this brilliant piece of Yashica kit...
heh... heh, heh... bwaahahaha
Ok what a the square block things you put in chriss ?
My grandma would like this camera.
Love these 'reviews' 😀
Was fun to watch - but definitely not a camera we'll be adding to our collection.
It would be great to compare it to an original Yashica 35 GSN just to show people what $100 and few rolls of film can deliver. Since that would require Chris to spend more time with Y35 I can totally understand why you didn't do it.
Holy shit I do not miss Calgary in the winter.
I like to see that digital TLR with built in projector, I don't remember who makes it off the top of my head.
Excellent. Well said. As you say, it's rubbish, but there are plenty of users who'd like a simple, photography-oriented stills camera. I remember how few parameters I could control on my old film cameras.
Lomography lovers gonna love this camera hahaha
Yes please do more videos like this!! Hilarious. I'd say review obscure cameras... like the Light L16. Or the older Lytro Computational cameras.
Thanks for ...who? for sending the Yashica to you? I can't hear what you say, link to their channel?
Tony & Chelsea Northrup
@@dirkbruyns1778 thanks!
@@dirkbruyns1778 Watched one of their podcasts, this one: czcams.com/video/yHNzHJfhLjE/video.html
I subbed :)
Review inexpensive cameras to identify hidden gems.
Can't decide between this and a used D300.
I just watched them review this the first 5 seconds had me dying lmao
It’s amazing how b&w will hide a multitude of sins
Kit Complete this is true, makes many of my toy cameras tolerable 🤣
How about reviewing everyones's favorite. The Brownie Instamatic? Nope? Thought so.
Is there a link to the Northrup video with Chelsea saying 'worst experience of my life'?
Found it: czcams.com/video/n6zHGD-WGMg/video.html
This novelty may not be worth $200, but I'll tell you what definitely is: buy an old film camera under $50 (there are plenty) and you could shoot and develop several rolls of film all for under $200. I shoot film just for fun occasionally, and it is definitely worth the cost. Rather a roll of film than go to the movies!
Even Holga Digital feels better..... At the end of the day, I'd rather shoot with a film Yashica camera, other toy cameras or film SLR. At lease they are not really that blind while shooting with.
I am an old Minolta 35mm film shooter, however the other day I came across in Amazon a Minolta bridge camera. Of course another name knock off from a great camera company. Can you do a review on it? Is it better than Yashica Y35? Or fun to play with it?
P.S. You should see Kai W review of the Yashica Y35
Could be better if it comes with SD card slot instead? Just curious.
Or microSD
@@youtube1sm It has SD card for recording the images on...
When you were talking about part of the fun being not knowing what you'd got, that definitely reminded me of my LOMO LC-A; I loved that camera for all its foibles, partly because exactly those foibles produced some images that I was really, really pleased with. I think there was certainly an element of fun in trying to take photographs within the constraints of a fixed-lens camera with auto-exposure, and can appreciate that the same could potentially hold for this Y35 - so I think the concept wasn't too far off. The execution certainly seems more than a little lacking, however.
Also, my first SLR was a Yashica FX-D; I resent its name being sullied by association with this!
I am a semi-professional photographer and often use lenses that cost less than $200--mainly, the old Canon 35mm f2.0 and the newer 50mm 1.8. And it's just because I could never justify the price of a Canon 35mm 1.4 or 50mm 1.2 (also, the 1.4 isn't sharp at 1.4 so I never considered it).
But you know, that 35mm 2.0 takes fantastic pictures (albeit with a loud-ass autofocus motor and pentagonal bokeh), and the 50mm 1.8 takes pretty good pictures too. So don't just throw away $200--you can get some real gear with that kind of money. Hell, you can get a Yongnuo flash for $150 that doesn't do much worse than the $600 ones offered by Canon or Nikon.
Oh, but in the full frame mirrorless world you can't get jack shit for $200, haha.
Maaaaannnnn!!! Yewwww!! Could you do the Canon T70 next?!?!
The cover of Vanity Fair's next Oscar issue are from Annie Leibovitz and shot w/ the Yashica Y35. Well of course they are not but I wonder what the superstars of photography could do with this thing.
Wait, you can still buy non-alkaline batteries in normal stores?