Epson Digital Rangefinder RD-1 (“Digital Bessa”) at Yodobashi Camera in Shinjuku. The two cameras they had in stock were already sold, at ¥312,000 a pop.My initial impression, after admittedly a very short, 2-minute handling, was not exactly that of unconditional desire. The first thing you notice when picking up the camera is an apparent... 

This is an interesting and rather hefty book with street photographs by Kineo Kuwabara. One of the ever-returning realisations about photos about Japan is, that often you simply cannot tell the day and age that the photos were taken in. So even though the photos are in roughly chronological order, the reader is sometimes challenged to guess –... 

Just thought I should write down some photographic terms in Japanese for myself and the valued readership. On Sunday, I am going to the club meeting of my local camera club. I have never been in a camera club before, but the thought of being in a Japanese camera club somehow intrigues me. It is not a very big group, around 10 people, and, as you can... 

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From a photography mailing list: I had a real problem today, editing over 100 photos. It as a real delight to work today, hurray for digital Personally I think this is a fallacy. First, the time it takes me to select which negs to scan may be pretty close to the time you need to throw out the digi stuff you don’t want. Same process, probably same... 

At one of the many Kashiwa pools.The pools with many rules. I was busted for not swimming a lane end to end and sitting on the pool rim during the hourly “floater inspection” (for those outside of Japan: every hour for 10 minutes everybody has to leave the pool, the lifeguards will then busily scan the pool for… not sure what. On... 

I have been known for swooping in on the first day of these things, circle like a vulture and strike like an eagle, so why should today be any different?Almost 9000yen cheaper than the best used price I have seen, a 20+% saving. Try that with yer points! Here a photo from a whole area dedicated to just Polaroid SX-70. ... 

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