tokyo camera style

Akihabara

Nisshin Camera shop window

(on Show-dori across the river from Akihabara station)

Shinjuku

Konica Hexar

photographer: Takaaki Asai

The story of a Reica “camera” Part 1

A friend sent me a link to this manga which I’d like to share with you.

I am unaware whom to give credit to, so if anyone knows please tell me.

The story of a Reica “camera” Part 2

A friend sent me a link to this manga which I’d like to share with you.

I am unaware whom to give credit to, so if anyone knows please tell me.

Ochanomizu

Alpenflex TLR

Shin-Ochanomizu station

December 1976 issue of Camera Mainichi

I picked up this old photo magazine in Jimbocho tonight.  These old photo mags are exponentially more interesting than anything out today.  From the actual photos to the print quality, and most definitely to the ads. Camera ads from the 1970s fit into two categories—   One would be “camera surrounded by lenses on a black shiny surface”  and the other is something I call  ”Pure Awesome”.

This Pentax 6x7 ad is firmly in the “Pure Awesome” column.

If a simple yellow armband labeled PRESS can’t get a guy into press conferences then pairing it with an M65 field jacket ought to do the job.

Yurakucho (Bic Camera)

Nikon F with eyelevel finder and Zeiss 50mm F mount Planar

This young man was standing in front of the film cooler as I passed with an armload of Kodak powdered fixer packs and a box of Fuji photo paper.  I saw his Domke, gestured to mine off my shoulder and asked what camera he was shooting with.  Out came this beautiful F and I quickly set down my stuff to get a shot of it.

Kinshicho (Yodobashi Camera)

It’s a small 2G MP3 player with a CG Leica M3 design.

(That sentence would not have made sense 20 years ago.)

They had other designs- - a cassette tape, various animal prints and several which were sequined.

Minami Asagaya

Gallery Kaido Ribbon

Mamiya 7II with the brilliantly sharp 65mm lens.