It's great seeing Monica again. I really enjoyed the images of the city I call home. I just did jury duty downtown and walked right by that tattoo parlor about 3 weeks ago and thought the location was a nice subject. I need to spend more time and take more images down there! Safe travels.
In 1991 it would have been so much easier to get your T2 repaired if it broke though. Any of these early 90s cameras are on borrowed time just waiting to be bricked randomly
@@dubliostower There are plenty of places repairing these cameras, particularly in Europe and Asia from my experience. There are very common faults with a lot of point and shoot which are simply addressed for a few hundred euros or dollars. Usually it's just a flex cable that breaks.
Great video! And those are the reasons why i love my GR1s. All the functions are amazing if you know what you are doing - and with the GR1s you can even shoot at 2.8 whenever you want to. (No i have no problems with the display, the viewfinder or dust...)
Fujifilm Klasse S and W are where it's at. 38mm and 28mm respectively. Both f/2.8. Full aperture priority mode as well as Program. Exposure comp. Manual focus override. An improved Natural Photo mode like the Natura, but it also works for 800 iso. Flash that can be disabled. Exposure lock.
I bought one and then got lucky and found a Yashica T4 for $100 and shot a roll on each camera and got them both developed at the same lab and decided that the price for the Contax was not worth it at all. Returned it and still got the Yashica but also picked up the Nikon L35AF and loved that one too!
I once owned the Contax T3, loved it - great camera! Sold it for 500€ more than I bought it for. Also shot some Cinestill 800T with it at night. I do not regret selling it, I lost a Contax G2 due to the shutter issue.. There are so many nice point and shoot cameras out there, dont waste your money on a "hype" camera.
The original Contax T is much better choice IMHO. Same lens, manual focus / rangefinder, bought mine for €300 about two years ago. But the T2 is a beauty…
loved the shots mounted to the camera, it obviously isn't practical but its more interesting B-roll than just panning to the shot and it means we have to wait before seeing it.
if you're gonna spend T2 prices, might as well get the Fujifilm Klasse S/W. It's gonna be nice to get most of your shots in focus 😂. It's auto-focus lock works like a dream too. Imagine being able to actually select f2.8. Having a minimum focus distance of 40cm or 30cm on the W model is great for detailed shots. Concerned about flare? Chuck on a hood and it's still pocketable.
800T looks nice at 400ISO during the day because…. that’s a likely how a cinematographer would expose Vision 3 500T in the daytime without a warning filter, the extra 1/3 stop accounts for the lower sensitivity in the red and green dye whereas the blue exposes right at 500 ISO, hence the Tungsten Balance counteracting yellow night-lights
for current market situation Minolta TC-1 is the real sweet spot of a high quality point shoot and if you can get them in Korea or China it's mint in about 750 bucks
I got a good price for my Olympus Stylus 120. However, my first time shooting produced some bad results. It was probably down to my inexperience with a zoom lens point and shoot. A lot of the photos were soft and others were completely out of focus - probably from the wrong distance from the focal plane. Las Vega$ is perfect for that 800t. Good video, J-Dogg.
It was literally just for people with money who wanted a fancy compact camera that was better than the run of the mill. The ‘professional’ extra controls certainly weren’t for professional use, simply to make someone who dropped 3x as much as they needed to on a compact point and shoot feel superior about themselves. Serious photographers using point and shoots as an actual creative tool is a recent thing.
Since the creator invited negative comments at the end of the video, far be it from me to not oblige. I've used a Contax T2 of about a quarter-century, and I've watched many of the many dozens of YT videos about them, so I would have skipped this one, but for the creator, who I generally regard as informative and entertaining However, there are major errors about the camera in the video, so I just skip the two biggest. 1. There is a passing negative about the inability of the autofocus to focus through glass. The T2 uses exactly the same active infrared autofocus system shared by 98% of the non-SLR AF cameras ever made. The focusing component in the T2 is probably the same one used in the Mju/Stylus. The T2's advantage, which is rare, is the user's ability to easily switch from AF to a manual focus override when those situations which would defeat the AF system are presented. 2. Autofocus: 2.8 and Be There. YT is full of old tropes of misinformation, which are maintained and eventually given a false validity by their repetition. The discussion here of limited ability to use the 2.8 maximum aperture with the T2 is a classic example. The Video:: If you put the aperture on 2.8, you select Programmed Exposure, so cannot manually force the camera to shoot at 2.8. Programmed AE will reset the shooting aperture to a smaller aperture and open up only if you are shooting in dim lighting. The Truth: Setting the aperture selector to 2.8 will activate Programmed Exposure. Programmed AE will ALWAYS shoot at 2.8, unless the subject is so bright that to use 2.8 would over-expose the shot. Only then does the T2 start shutting down to smaller apertures in order to preserve proper exposure. In other words, the T2 functions exactly opposite to the video description. Where it this pearl of information stored? On the last page of the user manual. For the non-literate, there is also a graph. If you stop looking at old VT videos and just think about it for a second, the rationale for this design is apparent. For the light-weight user, always using Programmed Exposure, the camera uses the fastest aperture to give the highest shutter speed, thereby minimizing subject motion or camera shake. That the image is also getting less than half of its optimum resolution is not likely to be an issue for such a user. For the experienced user, you just set the aperture to whatever you want for the effect you desire, and the camera still sets the shutter speed to match. Want to pull or push the exposure? Dial in the degree of such you want. Hard to see how the AE exposure system could be more conveniently arranged. 3. Score: A thumb down for carelessly passing along ignorant misinformation.
My t2 died on me a few weeks back, quoted 600 to repair it by the only store in America that fixes them. It’s gonna be a brick forever I guess. This is the second time it’s just sort of died from normal use, these old electronics were meant to last maybe 10 years and tend to just inexplicably die at the worst times with no real way to fix without opening it up and replacing parts that are incredibly rare. I bought it years ago for less than 500, so I’m not willing to pay more than that to repair it lol. There are people who adapt the lens to M-Mount so I might do that because I do love the lens and character of the lens.
@@soejrd24978that or I could repaiiir it for 600 then sell it for 1200 or whatever but honestly I’m very interested in adapting the lens to m mount so I might do that and then sell the parts for however much people will take them for
You should do the Canon sure shot Supreme as it’s dirt cheap but I’ve seen quite a few people compare it to being right under the T2 in quality, usually missing focus 3/10 times and minus the dials. But for your next video idea.
@@TucsonAnalogWorkshop oh yes my tusconanalogboy irony of fuji coming back although their medium format film game is cooked. and more irony and shame will happen when they release a xpan digital version oh my goodness Pentax 17 then Fuji Xpannymygreen
@@RM.TokyoPhotographer In Japan, do you know if they are making fresh Velvia and Provia in 35mm? It seems if it can be found at all, it is old stock. The Fuji color neg in US is all made by Kodak.
The buttons and dials! what about the glass? The glass is outrageous. You can print 3ft leading edge off these sonars on 400iso film. They are incredible lenses, in your pocket, that's what's up, take my money.
People fighting for different point and shoots but overall it has been the most frustrating type of cameras as a whole for me. Most of them have given me issue after some time and price to quality does not make sense. I have better experience with most SLRs even cheap ones like canon rebels as they can take much better glass and are more reliable.
Not a T2, but I had a Nikon 28ti for a while, and yeah it was really nice, but I sold it because having a $1000 dollar point and shoot that could die at any moment is just to risky. And if I'm gonna shoot film, I'd rather use a proper camera anyways. I'll save p&s stuff for my digital GRiii
Nice photos. I am not sure why film photographers are afraid to use flash in their photos. They would rather pull highlights out in post because they are underexposed than use flash.I have my xa 1 and 2, My Petax IQ zooms and Samsung Evocas. Great pointshooot cameras.
Whenever I hold a point and shoot in my hands I think: I already have a canon 7 with a jupiter-12 with FOMA 400 in it that is always set to F8 and I zone focus with that fucker when it is sunny and yeah that's basically my point and shoot. And I also have an Oly AF-1. Lol.
I've used both and I prefer the quality of the lens of the T2. However, the metering and autofocus of the 35Ti rarely miss. So, idk, I just with the T2 wasn't such a poor performer in that regard.
If you want a camera with unlimited functionality and a stupidly sharp lens, you could just get a canon 1v with the battery grip and a sigma 35mm 1.4 Art... and really really big pockets. Cargo shorts are in right?
I wonder if it'll take all these originally film cameras dying en masse before we get any serious interest from manufacturers in reviving old camera lines. If Kyocera could release a successor to the T2 for under $1k, I think they'd have a lot of success
Back in the day it was still an expensive camera and back then I checked all the specs and I lost interest. If you are going to spend this sort of money then it is a good idea to buy a Nikon FM2 or FM3A which are compact enough with either a 28mm or 35mm lens and you will get far better results than the contax. Just my opinion.
An expensive point and shoot you forgot to mention is the RICOH GR21 ( only 4000 made ) before they ventured to the digital cameras. * I own one * & would not trade it for any contax. Very special camera at a 21mm focal length that fits in your pocket
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When T2 prices eclipse XPAN prices, we will truly be lost.
Did the hotel room not have a toilet?
The real Jason has been replaced by AI
The hotel room did not have Caleb
$1300 camera, $50 flight
That’s how you know he has his priorities set
@calebwilliams7109 truth. You can resell a T2. You can't even gift an airline ticket.
I'm confused. Did Jason actually forget he already has a T2? Or did I dream about him having one? And why am I hungry again?
I think his old T2 died
You forgot to eat today.
Didn't he have a Contax T3 and Yashica T4? Niot sure he had a Contax T2 before.
@@FinalManaTrigger He had a dark gray T2. Check the Iceland video's for example
@@sinaasappelflapGrey T2 was last seen in Ektachrome Christmas 6 i think
The most banger shots I've seen in a single video.
This man is going to praise the Contax T2 for having manual focus control but badmouth the Olympus XA? 😩
Also totally ignore the existence of the Rollei 35.
@@IshikabibbleReal, these cameras are fun af to use
XA XA XA, all for it. Still love every video here, bye
XA2-3 the goat
XA-1 is kind of finicky imo, the zone focusing system just works so well for that small camera body and small viewfinder.
@@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss Don't forget about the XA
Jason, your humor is truly without equal.
Only Camera Conspiracies.
It's great seeing Monica again. I really enjoyed the images of the city I call home. I just did jury duty downtown and walked right by that tattoo parlor about 3 weeks ago and thought the location was a nice subject. I need to spend more time and take more images down there! Safe travels.
So what happened to the one you had earlier?
Wait, didn't you have a T2 already?
Not a gold one
I thought he did, too.
i think he sold it a while ago because he didnt use it, due to its price
t5 definitely
The T2 sold for $1000 in 1991, which is worth $2300 today. If you need to justify it to yourself 😉
In 1991 it would have been so much easier to get your T2 repaired if it broke though. Any of these early 90s cameras are on borrowed time just waiting to be bricked randomly
@@dubliostowerreally? this the first I’m hearing about this
@@dubliostower There are plenty of places repairing these cameras, particularly in Europe and Asia from my experience. There are very common faults with a lot of point and shoot which are simply addressed for a few hundred euros or dollars. Usually it's just a flex cable that breaks.
Your night time street photography is really good dude. I actually prefer it to your more landscapey stuff.
It looks like you and Monica had a great time in Vegas. As always, your content remains very entertaining. Cheers!
Great video! And those are the reasons why i love my GR1s. All the functions are amazing if you know what you are doing - and with the GR1s you can even shoot at 2.8 whenever you want to.
(No i have no problems with the display, the viewfinder or dust...)
Fujifilm Klasse S and W are where it's at. 38mm and 28mm respectively. Both f/2.8. Full aperture priority mode as well as Program. Exposure comp. Manual focus override. An improved Natural Photo mode like the Natura, but it also works for 800 iso. Flash that can be disabled. Exposure lock.
The holga is a completley manual point and shoot ;)
I bought one and then got lucky and found a Yashica T4 for $100 and shot a roll on each camera and got them both developed at the same lab and decided that the price for the Contax was not worth it at all. Returned it and still got the Yashica but also picked up the Nikon L35AF and loved that one too!
Old enough to remember Jason saying his Yashi T4 is a more reliable camera for in focus images than the T2. Maybe the gold helps…somehow…
It is true, but the t2 is still unmatched
@ lol ok
@@phatpat7629 When it actually catches focus!!
I once owned the Contax T3, loved it - great camera! Sold it for 500€ more than I bought it for. Also shot some Cinestill 800T with it at night. I do not regret selling it, I lost a Contax G2 due to the shutter issue.. There are so many nice point and shoot cameras out there, dont waste your money on a "hype" camera.
The original Contax T is much better choice IMHO. Same lens, manual focus / rangefinder, bought mine for €300 about two years ago. But the T2 is a beauty…
i’m loving these point and shoot videos since i’m getting more into
using them!!
Jumped with joy seeing another video get posted
30% of my images are always out of focus. Fuck the T2
@@DamirZrno that’s exactly what he said in his last video on the subject too
I’d never pay the prices asked for these - but you have produced some great work with it
When digital took over a film was pronounced dead I picked mine for a 100.00
Absolutely love my Contax T2!
love the aspect ratio! first time I’ve seen the video player actually longer when watching on my phone in portrait.
loved the shots mounted to the camera, it obviously isn't practical but its more interesting B-roll than just panning to the shot and it means we have to wait before seeing it.
if you're gonna spend T2 prices, might as well get the Fujifilm Klasse S/W. It's gonna be nice to get most of your shots in focus 😂. It's auto-focus lock works like a dream too. Imagine being able to actually select f2.8. Having a minimum focus distance of 40cm or 30cm on the W model is great for detailed shots. Concerned about flare? Chuck on a hood and it's still pocketable.
Jason lookin LEAN
800T looks nice at 400ISO during the day because…. that’s a likely how a cinematographer would expose Vision 3 500T in the daytime without a warning filter, the extra 1/3 stop accounts for the lower sensitivity in the red and green dye whereas the blue exposes right at 500 ISO, hence the Tungsten Balance counteracting yellow night-lights
Well yes and no, since Cinestill does not have remjet layer, it is faster, so not a 1to1 comparison
The olympus XA offers everything the T2 has for a tenth of the cost.. make that make sense!
shhhh
Except auto focus lol
One is used, the other is enjoyed
Except the lens on the T2 slays the lens on the XA. The XA flares like crazy and isn't nearly as sharp. Owned the XA, XA2 and XA4.
Didn't need more convincing but keen to grab one of these soon
Like right away and now i sit and watch the video 😁
That shot @5:32 👌
for current market situation Minolta TC-1 is the real sweet spot of a high quality point shoot and if you can get them in Korea or China it's mint in about 750 bucks
Very Hopper esq 👍😅
Getting hit by Black Friday ad after this was Amusing 😂
"Jimmy Fallon? The only thing he should host is a parasite!".
whoa, easy on the slander. Waffle House would def do better than spirit.
Great video, thank you!
I approve of this aspect ratio :)
I got a good price for my Olympus Stylus 120. However, my first time shooting produced some bad results. It was probably down to my inexperience with a zoom lens point and shoot. A lot of the photos were soft and others were completely out of focus - probably from the wrong distance from the focal plane. Las Vega$ is perfect for that 800t. Good video, J-Dogg.
eat the rich
You can get it completely overhaul in New York for $800 if it does break
cheap point and shoot: FPP retrochrome
expensive point and shoot: cinestill 800t
it doesn't sound fair
Hello Jason
We need to get you into LSI - Leica Society International. You’d have a blast.
@@Photons.not.includedMENSA type beat
60?! I'm having trouble believing that.
"Flying equivalent of Waffle House" is the epitome of spirit airline
I use my 1953 Leica iiif as a point and shoot. Yes, I am insufferable, why do you ask?
I bought this camera years ago in Seoul before the hype 😅 . . . It is a fantastic camera with a solid compact body and very sharp glass.
J.
I advice you try the Pentax PC35AF, the lens setup and picture quality is comparable to the premium POS's, and you can find it for dirt cheap.
Thanks for the reminder that I have two rolls of Natura 16daddy in my freezer. :")
love the music in this one. vibagery
Reading the comments before watching the video is peak rookie...surprised we don't get more T2 v T3 videos. Next holiday = just taking my T2.
Who is this camera for? "Sexy people on vacation who want to capture it luxuriously, and are fluent in photography." 👌
It was literally just for people with money who wanted a fancy compact camera that was better than the run of the mill. The ‘professional’ extra controls certainly weren’t for professional use, simply to make someone who dropped 3x as much as they needed to on a compact point and shoot feel superior about themselves. Serious photographers using point and shoots as an actual creative tool is a recent thing.
I got a contax t2 for about $100 in 2014 in Osaka. Now looking at the prices and I am just shocked.
Since the creator invited negative comments at the end of the video, far be it from me to not oblige. I've used a Contax T2 of about a quarter-century, and I've watched many of the many dozens of YT videos about them, so I would have skipped this one, but for the creator, who I generally regard as informative and entertaining However, there are major errors about the camera in the video, so I just skip the two biggest.
1. There is a passing negative about the inability of the autofocus to focus through glass. The T2 uses exactly the same active infrared autofocus system shared by 98% of the non-SLR AF cameras ever made. The focusing component in the T2 is probably the same one used in the Mju/Stylus. The T2's advantage, which is rare, is the user's ability to easily switch from AF to a manual focus override when those situations which would defeat the AF system are presented.
2. Autofocus: 2.8 and Be There. YT is full of old tropes of misinformation, which are maintained and eventually given a false validity by their repetition. The discussion here of limited ability to use the 2.8 maximum aperture with the T2 is a classic example. The Video:: If you put the aperture on 2.8, you select Programmed Exposure, so cannot manually force the camera to shoot at 2.8. Programmed AE will reset the shooting aperture to a smaller aperture and open up only if you are shooting in dim lighting. The Truth: Setting the aperture selector to 2.8 will activate Programmed Exposure. Programmed AE will ALWAYS shoot at 2.8, unless the subject is so bright that to use 2.8 would over-expose the shot. Only then does the T2 start shutting down to smaller apertures in order to preserve proper exposure. In other words, the T2 functions exactly opposite to the video description. Where it this pearl of information stored? On the last page of the user manual. For the non-literate, there is also a graph. If you stop looking at old VT videos and just think about it for a second, the rationale for this design is apparent. For the light-weight user, always using Programmed Exposure, the camera uses the fastest aperture to give the highest shutter speed, thereby minimizing subject motion or camera shake. That the image is also getting less than half of its optimum resolution is not likely to be an issue for such a user. For the experienced user, you just set the aperture to whatever you want for the effect you desire, and the camera still sets the shutter speed to match. Want to pull or push the exposure? Dial in the degree of such you want. Hard to see how the AE exposure system could be more conveniently arranged.
3. Score: A thumb down for carelessly passing along ignorant misinformation.
cinestill ate these colours up
Kinda wish you'd used the same film stock across the budget P&S cams too
My t2 died on me a few weeks back, quoted 600 to repair it by the only store in America that fixes them. It’s gonna be a brick forever I guess. This is the second time it’s just sort of died from normal use, these old electronics were meant to last maybe 10 years and tend to just inexplicably die at the worst times with no real way to fix without opening it up and replacing parts that are incredibly rare.
I bought it years ago for less than 500, so I’m not willing to pay more than that to repair it lol.
There are people who adapt the lens to M-Mount so I might do that because I do love the lens and character of the lens.
I bet people are still willing to buy it for 300. Could even sit on it for 5 years and sell it for more
@@soejrd24978that or I could repaiiir it for 600 then sell it for 1200 or whatever but honestly I’m very interested in adapting the lens to m mount so I might do that and then sell the parts for however much people will take them for
I Ain’t got money for that but I can live vicariously through my favorite photographer, and I don’t know why but it’s you
You should do the Canon sure shot Supreme as it’s dirt cheap but I’ve seen quite a few people compare it to being right under the T2 in quality, usually missing focus 3/10 times and minus the dials. But for your next video idea.
We Love Monica!
fujifilm really needs to make a film camera...if they do remake the xpan film version...ppl will go after them like bannaas
Fuji making a new film camera would be the ultimate irony
@@TucsonAnalogWorkshop oh yes my tusconanalogboy irony of fuji coming back although their medium format film game is cooked. and more irony and shame will happen when they release a xpan digital version oh my goodness
Pentax 17
then Fuji Xpannymygreen
@@RM.TokyoPhotographer In Japan, do you know if they are making fresh Velvia and Provia in 35mm? It seems if it can be found at all, it is old stock. The Fuji color neg in US is all made by Kodak.
I've got a T2, but (thanks a lot, Jason!) it's not GOLD, so it's not good enough now.....Great roll of exposures, BTW.
The buttons and dials! what about the glass? The glass is outrageous. You can print 3ft leading edge off these sonars on 400iso film. They are incredible lenses, in your pocket, that's what's up, take my money.
Vision3 500T in ECN2>>>>Cinestill 800T in C41
My credit score just rose 10 points by opening this video
Hi. Great video. I mean not really, but you strike me as someone who might need a confidence booster. Keep it up pal!
People fighting for different point and shoots but overall it has been the most frustrating type of cameras as a whole for me. Most of them have given me issue after some time and price to quality does not make sense. I have better experience with most SLRs even cheap ones like canon rebels as they can take much better glass and are more reliable.
What about the T2 in comparison to the yashica Jason?
Wait didnt you have a t2 already
Not a T2, but I had a Nikon 28ti for a while, and yeah it was really nice, but I sold it because having a $1000 dollar point and shoot that could die at any moment is just to risky. And if I'm gonna shoot film, I'd rather use a proper camera anyways. I'll save p&s stuff for my digital GRiii
Nice stuff. I think about this camera often. Like, does a guy really need a Leica?
Gold casio watch + gold contax t2 = c c c combo
Hi Matt, what was that Bottom plate setup for the action cam you were using? loved the angle.
Nice photos. I am not sure why film photographers are afraid to use flash in their photos. They would rather pull highlights out in post because they are underexposed than use flash.I have my xa 1 and 2, My Petax IQ zooms and Samsung Evocas. Great pointshooot cameras.
Whenever I hold a point and shoot in my hands I think: I already have a canon 7 with a jupiter-12 with FOMA 400 in it that is always set to F8 and I zone focus with that fucker when it is sunny and yeah that's basically my point and shoot.
And I also have an Oly AF-1. Lol.
Wondering if you still use your Yashica T4
this video ate
I bought the 35Ti just to spite the contax shooters, and i get stopped all the time by people who think it's 'the camera'
I’m still not in love with my 35Ti, but… it’s pretty nice.
I've used both and I prefer the quality of the lens of the T2. However, the metering and autofocus of the 35Ti rarely miss. So, idk, I just with the T2 wasn't such a poor performer in that regard.
@@doozledumbler5393 I think the AF has let me down a few times, but not the metering 🤷♂️
If you want a camera with unlimited functionality and a stupidly sharp lens, you could just get a canon 1v with the battery grip and a sigma 35mm 1.4 Art... and really really big pockets. Cargo shorts are in right?
Great, now I want a T2. Thanks.
No, you want to smoke your green (burn your money)
I’m starting to believe Jason doesn’t look the commend often
Thanks for sharing your experience. Did you shoot the 800 Cinestil also with 400 ISO in the night?
Can you review the contac tvs point and shoot too, do like a mid level price?
dude great video. lots of funny lines. great pics. one question about your vlog workflow- is any of the travel footage iphone?
My $20 Pentax Espio 928 has all of the same features plus a 28-90mm zoom lens lol it's crazy what internet hype does to prices
I wonder if it'll take all these originally film cameras dying en masse before we get any serious interest from manufacturers in reviving old camera lines. If Kyocera could release a successor to the T2 for under $1k, I think they'd have a lot of success
Back in the day it was still an expensive camera and back then I checked all the specs and I lost interest.
If you are going to spend this sort of money then it is a good idea to buy a Nikon FM2 or FM3A which are compact enough with either a 28mm or 35mm lens and you will get far better results than the contax.
Just my opinion.
I'm pretty sure my £30 Minolta HiMatic has exposure lock. 😆
An expensive point and shoot you forgot to mention is the RICOH GR21 ( only 4000 made ) before they ventured to the digital cameras. * I own one * & would not trade it for any contax. Very special camera at a 21mm focal length that fits in your pocket
Ok
grainy tuah
Did you really have to remind me of the state of St Louis sports this early into the video
Do a 5h roadtrip when u hit 1M subscribers bruh
Son of a Nietzsche, he did it again
Take your like, mister
Another banger
GAS induced, thanks
How timely I just bought a minilux and it broke on the 8th exposure. just sent out reddotrepair, cant wait to have her back