When I was on my trip i wanted to collect some interesting cameras but only managed to get one, and that one i had to assemble myself.
In Tokyo I went to the “Tokyo Metropolitan museum of Photography” and saw a fantastic retrospective of the Japanese photographer Moriyama Daido. It was fantastic to see how an artist views there own home and I loved his vision of Japan. And like in all good museums one of the most exciting things is the museum shop…. There was many cool and interesting things but i saw a flatpac camera called a P-Sharan (this is the US site because the Japanese one is terrible and isnt translated)
I wasn’t feeling great over the weekend so pumped up the heater and put on one of my favorite japanese animations Totoro
its super cute and just makes me feel good….
The camera wasn’t difficult but with only Japaneses instructions it took a little working out…. but by the end of the film i had a fully functioning pinhole camera….. stay tuned for the test shots…..
[...] James played with my Lensbaby and I had a play with everything else…. I played with the 35mm pinhole that I got in Japan, my hubbies lomo fisheye and I even tried a bit of TTV with my brownie [...]