Retro film camera brings back memories

Leonard Goh | Oct 10, 2008

The blackbird, fly camera. Picture credit: Superheadz

Japanese company Superheadz is known for producing some really wacky cameras, and its latest film-based 35mm shooter, the blackbird, fly, takes design inspirations from the past and looks like the twin-lens reflex (TLR) cameras your grandparents used to have.

The blackbird, fly has two 33mm lenses with two aperture settings--F7 and F11--and shutter speed is fixed at 1/125 second. To take a picture, flip open the lid on the top and compose your shot. As with most TLRs, the orientation of the image will be opposite, so it may take some getting used to. Focusing is done manually and you get a choice of three image sizes. There is the typical 24 x 36mm, as well as two square formats--24 x 24mm and 36 x 36mm.

While this novelty shooter may be an interesting conversation piece, it is not exactly cheap for a film camera. It'll set you back US$127.50 and is available online.

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