boy with umbrella
The newest addition to my arsenel is the Bolsey C22 (read about it at Photoethnography, a great resource for information about classic cameras, anthropology, and photography). It’s a pretty little gem of a camera that fits in the palm of my hand, and has a snazzy waist-level viewfinder like a TLR (though it takes 35mm film). It also has a split-image rangefinder, and a framing viewfinder, on the back–a little bit of everything packed into a tiny space.
It also does a great job of taking pictures. This one was cropped square to eliminate some of the street traffic, but coming up are some full-frame shots as well; though there are some things I don’t like about it (the space is so tight that you can’t trip the shutter and look through the rear viewfinder, and loading it is kind of like loading the FED3), but there are plenty of things that are great about it as well.
Shameless self promotion:
