penwash
October 29th, 2015, 05:30 PM
Let's do a collection of photos of pens and cameras.
As a collector of both, I see a few similarities:
1. Camera types are like pen types, in skilled hands any type could produce amazing results, but we often think that the more expensive ones will magically boost our "artistic" efforts
2. Nibs are like camera lenses, people could argue until their faces are blue ... over subjective aspects
3. Adapting old lenses to new camera bodies, just like we try to put NOS nibs on new pen bodies
4. Ink is like film in terms of type, characteristics, price, capacity, the "look", etc. (at least it used to be, before digital kills the fun in that area)
5. Montblanc = Leica, Flex = Bokeh
and so on..
Anyways, today is Italian camera and pen day
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/682/22389945530_e97aab1fd6_z.jpg
Elioflex 2 Twin-Lens Reflex made in 1950 in Italy
Stipula Passaporto pocket pen. Discontinued and then this one came along, a reproduced from the original design via Massdrop initiative.
As a collector of both, I see a few similarities:
1. Camera types are like pen types, in skilled hands any type could produce amazing results, but we often think that the more expensive ones will magically boost our "artistic" efforts
2. Nibs are like camera lenses, people could argue until their faces are blue ... over subjective aspects
3. Adapting old lenses to new camera bodies, just like we try to put NOS nibs on new pen bodies
4. Ink is like film in terms of type, characteristics, price, capacity, the "look", etc. (at least it used to be, before digital kills the fun in that area)
5. Montblanc = Leica, Flex = Bokeh
and so on..
Anyways, today is Italian camera and pen day
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/682/22389945530_e97aab1fd6_z.jpg
Elioflex 2 Twin-Lens Reflex made in 1950 in Italy
Stipula Passaporto pocket pen. Discontinued and then this one came along, a reproduced from the original design via Massdrop initiative.