tokyo camera style

Ebisu

Contax G1 with 28mm f/2.8 Biogon

Photographer: Crystal Daniels / tumblr / Instagram / film Instagram

Ebisu

Contax TVSiii

Photographer: Marcel Castenmiller / website / instagram

Hibiya Park

Minolta Riva Zoom 70 Date

Photographer: Yusuke Miyamoto / website / tumblr / instagram

Ueno

Leica iiif with 50mm f2 Summitar lens, Leicavit winder, and Nikon finder

Shinjuku

Contax T3

Canon Autoboy MINI

Photographer: Yusuke Miyamoto / website / tumblr / instagram

Shinjuku

Fujifilm TX-1

Photographer: Kohei / instagram

Spike Jonze’s Favorite Cameras - VICE:

“Cameras are something that any of us can talk about for hours, whether it’s a director or photographer, we love talking about cameras and I think that, in what I’ve done, cameras are always part of creating the feeling of what I’m doing.”

-Spike Jonze

Shinjuku

Nikon FE with 50mm f1.4 Nikkor lens

Shinjuku

Dual Canon AE-1s

Photographer: Lisa Joseph / instagram

Shinjuku

Leica M-A with a Zeiss Biogon 2,8/28 ZM T* lens

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Photographers in Focus: Nobuyoshi Araki - An inside look at the legendary Japanese photographer’s studio process (6:51)
via nowness.com (nsfw)

Harajuku

Ed Templeton: Leica M6 TTL with 50mm f1.4 Summilux lens

Deanna Templeton: M6 TTL with 50mm f1.4 Summilux Aspherical lens

Me: Leica M6 with 35mm f2 Summicron V4 lens

Shinya Arimoto’s latest entry in his popular Ariphoto zine series is now available online. It’s twenty pages of solid Tokyo street photography- people and places flashed and framed by his Hasselblad SWC.

Printed in a limited edition of 500, they’re only 1000 yen (about $10) each with free shipping anywhere in the world. Each volume has been selling out faster than the last- order yours on Arimoto’s site here: Ariphoto Selection Vol.8

Book Marc, Harajuku

Fujifilm Klasse W

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Q: Do you think that photography can be taught at all? In a school?
Garry Winogrand: You can discuss it; you don’t create photographers, if that’s what you’re asking. Is there a school that’s responsible for the creation of a photographer- or any artist? Come on. No. Out of the question. I don’t care whether you’re talking about graduate students or undergraduate students. I’m in an art department, so I’m talking about photography, I’m talking about painting, sculpture– there isn’t anybody who I would bet a nickel on, that two years out of school they’re going to be doing anything they’ve been studying.
Q: People doing anything, or anything interesting?
Winogrand: Well, doing anything related to what they’re doing in school. The fact is that during your time you’re in school your life is designed for you to do the work. That’s what school’s about. When you get out of school, nobody gives a shit. You’ve got to make a living, you may even have a kid to feed– who the hell knows? Nobody cares whether you make a picture or not. So, it ends up you, your own passions, for the thing that are going to be tested.

source: An Interview With Garry Winogrand Afterimage / December 1977

Yanaka

Leica M4 with 35mm f2 Summicron lens

Photographer: Tomoki Tajima / instagram

Spotted in Yanaka: a vintage (1999) Nobuyoshi Araki “Nyarakee” plush doll, ironically informing passers-by that the cat-themed shop/cafe that it is hung across from is not to be photographed.