I don’t think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day
-- William Eggleston
If you want to change your photographs, you need to change cameras. Changing cameras means that your photographs will change. A really good camera has something I suppose you might describe as its own distinctive aura.
-- Nobuyoshi Araki
Cameras are wonderful little contraptions.
By making photographs, they are tools with which one can express their personal taste and private sensibilities. At the same time they physically exist as expressions of these same concepts. The relationship one has with their cameras affects their approach to making a picture.
People who shoot film simply do because they choose to, and the Photo Culture of Tokyo is full of film camera users. When I meet them out on the streets I ask to photograph their camera, and usually post it here the same day. All of the photos were shot with a Ricoh GRDII. I trust that this irony is not lost on anyone.
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Worldwide Camera Styles
Akabane
Plaubel Makina
Photographer: Mitsugu Onishi
Yesterday at Lemon-sha in Ginza I saw five Makinas for sale. Three were the wide lens version. Map Camera in Shinjuku often has at least two in stock every time I stop by. The used Makina prices haven’t dropped much in the past few years- whereas prices on Mamiya 7s just keep getting better and better.
