Fits right in the palm of my hand.

I mentioned that I’d spend most of January camera shopping. I did, and I finally got the fruit I was waiting for yesterday, shipped all the way from Hong Kong. This here is a Golden Half camera, which was just reissued in Japan sometime in or around 2008. It’s an analog toy camera and has plastic & rubber parts. It takes regular 35mm film, but as a half-format, doubles the number of pictures you can take with that roll, so a roll of 24 exposures can fit 48 pictures, and so on.

I first saw the camera in the Tokyo LOFT (giant stationary store with indie-leaning design interests). I didn’t feel like paying the premium of the yen’s exchange rate + Japan’s tax while there so I held off until I got back to the states and did a bit more research on my own. My golden half came in the black mountain design.