Expensive Point and Shoot

[@revaaron]

$1300 camera, $50 flight

[@calebwilliams7109]

That’s how you know he has his priorities set

[@brookwillard]

When T2 prices eclipse XPAN prices, we will truly be lost.

[@brianmckeever5280]

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.

[@thatRyzzle]

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?

[@nev.catalyst7478]

I think his old T2 died

[@youravantgarde]

You forgot to eat today.

[@FinalManaTrigger]

Didn't he have a Contax T3 and Yashica T4? Niot sure he had a Contax T2 before.

[@BelowZero]

It looks like you and Monica had a great time in Vegas. As always, your content remains very entertaining. Cheers!

[@Matt.Detroit]

Did the hotel room not have a toilet?

[@nev.catalyst7478]

The real Jason has been replaced by AI

[@joshmcdzz6925]

The olympus XA offers everything the T2 has for a tenth of the cost.. make that make sense!

[@eyeamstrongest]

shhhh

[@andrewsammut3432]

Except auto focus lol

[@GarenMeguerian]

Contax perfected the point & shoot with the T2, and perfected the compact auto focus film camera with the G2. It’s a shame that they’re not still around.

[@pronouncehedging5620]

The most banger shots I've seen in a single video.

[@jzayas5698]

Wait, didn't you have a T2 already?

[@Jan-vw5cg]

Not a gold one

[@mgscheue]

I thought he did, too.

[@Olyvia..]

i think he sold it a while ago because he didnt use it, due to its price

[@GaltarDude1138]

This man is going to praise the Contax T2 for having manual focus control but badmouth the Olympus XA? 😩

[@Ishikabibble]

Also totally ignore the existence of the Rollei 35.

[@czelendzerii3985]

​@@IshikabibbleReal, these cameras are fun af to use

[@timoge2740]

XA XA XA, all for it. Still love every video here, bye

[@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss]

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.

[@trels203]

​@@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss Don't forget about the XA

[@dougfromsoanierana]

The sister camera is the Contax Tvs, which has the same lens quality, is a bit bulkier, plus has a zoom. And it’s half the price of a T2.

[@scotttuckerphotography]

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…

[@phatpat7629]

It is true, but the t2 is still unmatched

[@scotttuckerphotography]

@ lol ok

[@phila3884]

@@phatpat7629 When it actually catches focus!!

[@hyppyrotta71]

So what happened to the one you had earlier?

[@StarLightDotPhotos]

The holga is a completley manual point and shoot ;)

[@MikeLikesChannel]

The T2 sold for $1000 in 1991, which is worth $2300 today. If you need to justify it to yourself 😉

[@dubliostower]

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

[@pseven21]

love the aspect ratio! first time I’ve seen the video player actually longer when watching on my phone in portrait.

[@jimhofman3179]

PERFECT!!! I bought my Contax T2 two weeks ago before the KZbin tax kicked in.

[@Bsidheq]

i’m loving these point and shoot videos since i’m getting more into using them!!

[@jeffjarboe3634]

You can get it completely overhaul in New York for $800 if it does break

[@rassio5414]

Jumped with joy seeing another video get posted

[@BradleySwainAwesome]

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.

[@hannonbendall5536]

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.

[@DamirZrno]

30% of my images are always out of focus. Fuck the T2

[@gewglesux]

We Love Monica!

[@mr_danyol]

A lot of people are hatin on the T2 out of literal envy. It’s a great camera with unmatched convenience. And the assumption that auto focus works 100% of the time is just childish

[@eyeamstrongest]

its a great camera, its just stupidly overpriced

[@DLivingston]

whoa, easy on the slander. Waffle House would def do better than spirit.

[@DLivingston]

Thanks for the reminder that I have two rolls of Natura 16daddy in my freezer. :")

[@Sky.H265]

Didn't need more convincing but keen to grab one of these soon

[@MurakamiFan]

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.

[@Klektic]

skibidi gyattax t tuah

[@jajaofficial5387]

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.

[@shuddercount6278]

Kinda wish you'd used the same film stock across the budget P&S cams too

[@ChrithBraown]

Your night time street photography is really good dude. I actually prefer it to your more landscapey stuff.

[@robinthesky6728]

dude great video. lots of funny lines. great pics. one question about your vlog workflow- is any of the travel footage iphone?

[@phila3884]

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.

[@lucabellomo]

Like right away and now i sit and watch the video 😁

[@sevakdilanchian]

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.

[@KarinMajoka]

That shot @5:32 👌

[@hannahmae.]

Great video, thank you!

[@istvann.huszar420]

Who is this camera for? "Sexy people on vacation who want to capture it luxuriously, and are fluent in photography." 👌

[@headwerkn]

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.

[@RM.TokyoPhotographer]

fujifilm really needs to make a film camera...if they do remake the xpan film version...ppl will go after them like bannaas

[@TucsonAnalogWorkshop]

Fuji making a new film camera would be the ultimate irony

[@julianferrer6791]

love the music in this one. vibagery

[@kimchikidbear]

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

[@Photons.not.included]

Hello Jason

[@Photons.not.included]

We need to get you into LSI - Leica Society International. You’d have a blast.

[@jaxmanf]

@@Photons.not.includedMENSA type beat

[@thevoiceman6192]

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.

[@MolotovSandvich97]

I use my 1953 Leica iiif as a point and shoot. Yes, I am insufferable, why do you ask?

[@realasianbuoy]

grainy tuah

[@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss]

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.

[@soejrd24978]

I bet people are still willing to buy it for 300. Could even sit on it for 5 years and sell it for more

[@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss]

@@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

[@lightleakss]

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

[@zand]

It is often simply all about the lens.

[@cderzzz]

Wondering if you still use your Yashica T4

[@connorbell5340]

Can you review the contac tvs point and shoot too, do like a mid level price?

[@wunderxo]

Another banger

[@dumelisdumelis]

Hi. Great video. I mean not really, but you strike me as someone who might need a confidence booster. Keep it up pal!

[@WRCzATL]

Crazy expensive for something that will likely brick itself before much longer. Or maybe not. It is desiiiiireable.

[@dubliostower]

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

[@connorbell5340]

Wait didnt you have a t2 already

[@TyCrawford]

Did you really have to remind me of the state of St Louis sports this early into the video

[@anthonyp3113]

My credit score just rose 10 points by opening this video

[@soza.pidgeon]

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'

[@rawali1]

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?

[@neeravnaik]

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.

[@stevenmccaughan2752]

When digital took over a film was pronounced dead I picked mine for a 100.00

[@andykphoto]

I’m still not in love with my 35Ti, but… it’s pretty nice.

[@crispystar1394]

I’m starting to believe Jason doesn’t look the commend often

[@kptburger69]

Peak golden brick

[@sacredprovenance]

Let's go gambling (buy a T2 and hope it doesn't shit itself)!

[@austinhyer]

How timely I just bought a minilux and it broke on the 8th exposure. just sent out reddotrepair, cant wait to have her back

[@FacesOfLA]

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

[@tomrichter7979]

Ok

[@Jan-vw5cg]

Flying equivalent of Waffle House is the best description for Spirit airlines (RIP Bozos)

[@raulrodrigues2307]

Vision3 500T in ECN2>>>>Cinestill 800T in C41

[@ZoeRikardo]

Just get yourself a Fujifilm Discovery 312 Zoom..The best film camera from 1995..

[@BeerForTim]

Great, now I want a T2. Thanks.

[@joshmcdzz6925]

No, you want to smoke your green (burn your money)

[@djharmonix]

T3 > T2

[@maxadams69]

GAS induced, thanks

[@Neon071]

Son of a Nietzsche, he did it again Take your like, mister

[@HoangDang-pw1tz]

Welp walmart ryan gosling back at it again!

[@pushedeyeso]

Canon WP-1 still the goat

[@cderzzz]

I’m kinda newish to film, is it normal for most of your shots to come out blurry or like is there anything you can do to avoid blurry shots. I have a Yashica T4. Do I just need to start using the infinity setting

[@Βόρειο_Σέλας]

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.

[@Grainsposure]

Thats the mountain I live on that is on fire🔥 at 1:53 some nut bag started it.

[@DEFilmProductions]

What happened to the T2 you had before?

[@randallstewart1224]

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.

[@33Raze]

What happened to his old T2?

[@FerrumMaster]

Well, was pretty informative, definitely will not buy it ever. Thank you for your sacrifices, money, spent booze, hangover.

[@lyricsronen]

You coming to Germany soon?

[@Zebrius]

no hippo. disappointment is going strong. maybe he sold baxter for the second T2

[@TresLucin]

Lmao my gradma has two T2’s I just hit the gold

[@Flintlock]

800t, looking expired and x-ray fried as expected from cinestill.

[@enzo2588]

just to put things into perspective, I don't want to spend $250 for a Nikon Lens Adapter

[@decipher-me]

omg i came early

[@czelendzerii3985]

ayo?

[@decipher-me]

@@czelendzerii3985 u heard me

[@PROVIIA]

Flying equivalent of Waffle House hahaha that was good

[@standavies627]

nice

[@angelgrace1175]

😎👍Cool video Jason, thanks for the review and congrats on the new gear! I love it when Monica is in videos, she's sooo adorable! 😁💜

[@anuarmomo]

why nobody talk about the contax t?

[@Billybillybillyrocking]

I'm Will

[@thetravelogues]

I have really bad g.a.s.

[@almurda]

If Waffle House gets into the aerospace industry I'm flying that exclusively. It better serve all you can each hasbrowns too.

[@rf8221]

And here I just got a 2022 M6... Oh well, also who is Emma Chamberlain and why should I care?