YASHICA T4 FOCUS ISSUES

[Tom Emmerson]

Hey whats up.
Experiencing a few problems with my yashica t4 at the moment. I'm getting a lot of shots that have back focus (especially without flash).
Below are some examples. The two photos of the black guy sitting http://tomemmerson.com/image/139794519053 and white guy standing http://tomemmerson.com/image/139794489563 are in poor focus whereas the one on the far right (of the bleached blonde leaning on his hand) is really sharp http://tomemmerson.com/image/138670234838. Any advice appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Michael Sewell]

On the first two images you point to, it simply looks as if the focus point was anywhere other than central

 

[stevelmx5]

The T4 has fixed position focus as far as I know as it's basically a point and shoot 35mm film camera. From a quick search I've found a similar issue from 1999;

http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?topic_id=23&msg_id=000bFO

Might be worth a read through the thread for any clues.

 

[abdoujaparov]

Seems the T4 autofocuses on the centre spot - did you focus/recompose on the face? If you didn't, I'm guessing the camera successfully focused on the wall.

 

[excalibur2]

Well I can't help much as I've only put one film through my T5, but IMO it's not the best at focussing on the subject that you want to be sharp...it's ok for closeups where the subject mainly fills most of the frame or if everything is the same distance, but I've have similar results where the close background is in focus yet the person is not......but then maybe all AF cameras have this fault as I don't have much experience with AF.