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Chinon Bellami

1980 Japanese 35mm Viewfinder

A Tiny 35mm “Barn Door” Point-and-Shoot

Chinon was a Japanese camera manufacturer, bought by Kodak in 2004 during its “painful shift toward digital products. ” Though not nearly as famous as Kodak, Chinon has been in business since 1948, building discount K-Mount cameras. This particular camera, Chinon Bellami, can also be found as Revue 35CC with a slightly-altered design and precisely the same construction.

Commuterland

Magazine Review

The images Meredith published in her fantastic little magazine aren’t shot on a film camera. They are digital creations, sneaked from a train onto paper. The zine is dedicated to Keith, whom Merideth must care plenty about as the amount of attention to detail in this publication is remarkable.

Abhijeet Dangat

Mementos From 8 European Cities on 35mm

Europe – France, The UK, Germany, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy, Vatican

My Mementos From 8 European Cities on 35mm

Artists love Hugh Laurie for his craft and his profound take on life. The English actor-comedian once tweeted about his travels,It bothers me how quickly I can fall in love with a city. I swear my vows, and then another city comes along and flashes its eyes.

Europe’s “Flashing Eyes” on Film

Charlotte Pelleray

Thomas Yeung

Juan Saber

dubblefilm

Katherine Mollon

bunny

Baek Seo

Ethan

New Mag, New Cameras, New Film, +

☞ Get Community Letters (articles like this) monthly, via email. If you’re reading this Letter around the time of its publication — hang tight, it’s a crazy world out there. 😷Despite the madness, Analog. Cafe’s Monochrome magazine is now shipping, Lomography is launching an instant back for 4x5 cameras, dubblefilm is selling a new point-and-shoot, a new handmade small-batch film is being produced in Hong Kong, new chemistry announced from TETENAL, a new auto-advancing film holder is being Kickstarted, and Analogue Wonderland’s got a subscription service.

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Danilo Leonardi

A Photographic Journey From the Windowsill to the Streets of London

The Pandemic

The light has sunk into the earth The image of Darkening of the Light Thus does the superior man live with the great mass He veils his light, yet still shines. 
— 
Hexagram 36, “I Ching or Book of Changes. ” “Wow, yours is a photographer’s fridge! ” a friend of mine said loudly from the kitchen when he went to get milk for the coffees.

Daydreams in Lockdown

Olympus Pen FV

1967 Japanese 35mm Half-Frame SLR

The Elegance of Accomplished Engineering and Invention

When I opened the package from Tokyo, I couldn’t contain my excitement. There it was, the Olympus PEN FV body I had ordered a few weeks before. I checked the serial number and determined that 1970 was the year of manufacture. The FV camera is one of those uncommon objects where everything about them is graceful and elegant.

My Olympus Pen FV

Mat Hughes

Adventures in Pictorialism

Stage IV emergency restrictions are in place across the city due to Covid-19. We are confined to stay at home until the virus is bought under control. I am fine with that. I found the round vase in a junk shop. It’s pretty old and is made of the most beautiful green glass.

Still Life — With a Chase Scene

Lefteris Paraskevaidis

R.E.M.

Health

Do our dreams work as some sort of defragmentation? How does this random reconstruction of images and information visualize so many discordant elements in such a significant way? I have always been intrigued by the influence of dreams and all the surrealistic projections of our subconscious.

Rapid Eye Movement

Betty

Instax Mini 90 Neo Classic

2013 Japanese Instant Film Autofocus Viewfinder

Specs and Usability, Plus: How It Holds Up to iPhone and Polaroid SX-70

Instax Mini 90 Neo Classic is a relatively small, versatile instant camera, built for the ISO 800 Instax Mini film. It features a 60mm (comparable to 35mm on full-frame) 𝒇12. 7 prime plastic lens that stops down to 𝒇22 on “macro” mode; the lens can focus as close as 0.

Kodak’s $765,000,000 Story, Lenses, Pixels, and Photo Essays

☞ Get Community Letters (articles like this) monthly, via email. This Letter tells Kodak’s $765,000,000 story (Fujifilm, Bitcoin, and hydroxychloroquine are in it too). It then quotes Leica’s commitment to film, talks about variable-shape pixels and links to the fantastic short history of fast prime lenses.

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