Recently, I bought a DIY film camera at PageOne an international book store (hint: English Books) in China World Trade Center, Guómào 国贸 subway line 1. Here’s my walkthrough post to go there.
The creativity is coming from this www.superheadz.com team and its main company is http://powershovel.co.jp/en/about.html. Yes, it is a Japanese company, a Japanese product. Why does cool and unique camera manufacture always Japanese people ? One thing in my mind is Japanese products is great and their price always reasonable.
The camera is called 135 Camera 28mm lens. It is plamodel camera, plastic mold and clear plastic lens.
The good thing about this camera is I can see the camera mechanism’s, how the shutter window works. I recommended this camera for photographer and hobbyist. This camera also can be a gift for a friend.
Here is some pictures I built the camera. Takes me about 2 hours to finish it.
The bad thing was I do not like this plamodel camera because I had to be careful cut and break the pieces. Clean the left over plastic so it can fit with other piece. I have not test the camera yet with actual film, but I am sure it will be work fine. It only has 28mm lens equivalent with 35mm (it is full frame). The last thing is when capture a frame, the subject has to be about 1 meter away in distance and no flash – I have to find good decent light when capture a frame. The result might be out focus, overexpose or underexpose. Overall it is a play camera, cure and for fun only.
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