New(ish) Camera
This past Christmas, my wife got me a wonderful gift. It is the Blackbird Fly camera. It’s called a toy camera, I guess because it’s made out of plastic. Also, there are no f-stops. You choose cloudy or sunny on the dial located on the plastic lens. It’s a TLR (Twin Lens Reflex) camera that has a viewing lens, and a separate lens to take the picture. There is no viewfinder as such, you simply look down into the camera to focus and compose your shot. This is my third TLR camera, but my first 35 mm TLR. My other two (a 1957 vintage Ricoh Diacord L, and a Russian made plastic Lubitel 166) were both Medium format.
I haven’t taken this camera out on it’s first photo adventure yet, but I am looking forward to some great grainy Lomo-esque images! I love me some film!
