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It's ugly
It's loud
It's slow
It's huge
It's heavy
It's fully automatic
It looks like a camcorder
It shoots half frame (72 shots on a 36 roll)
And believe it or not: It's an SLR camera!
I hate using it, but the pictures came out pretty decent, minus the light leaks, but even though look nice.
Yashica Samurai X3.0,
Fujicolor Superia X-tra 400,
Pakon F135 scanner
This images were all shot on a Yashica Samurai X3.0 camera on some Boots 200 print film (that’s been lying at the bottom of the fridge for a few years!)
This is a fairly typical 1980s full automatic point-and-shoot camera… but it has a couple of features that make it stand out from typical cameras of this breed: it’s actually a proper SLR so you get more accurate framing than you’d get with a typical viewfinder camera, and it’s half frame, so you get 72 exposures on a 36 exposure roll of film.
Getting half frame film developed and printed can bee a bit of a challenge, but if you ask you D&P company to print it just as if it was a normal full frame film you get prints with two images divided by a thick black line.
If you get reasonably large prints then you can just cut them in half with scissors to end ip with normal prints. I got 9x6” prints so cut in half with the block line trimmed off you you would end up with pretty standard 6x4.25” prints.
But here is a more interesting challenge: why not try to take complimentary pairs of images that will look good together on the same print? That is what I have tried to do here. The easy thing to do it just take two photographs of the same scene with different view points, but you can make it more of a challenge by taking one photos then walking on and taking another photo half an hour later… you then have to keep the first photo locked in your memory as you look for a complimentary image.
You’ll find examples of both approaches in this set of images, all taken while wondering around Edinburgh city centre back in early February 2020.
So… how do you think I did?! :-)