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Blackbird, fly Camera a/w11
Price: £110
Limited Edition. Available from www.meetbernard.com
Carhartt Blackbird, Fly Carmera!
The Carhartt Blackbird, Fly released in association with PowerShovel, is in short a Twin-Reflex 35mm Camera. Bernard's very excited about this! Released especially for the Carhartt Fall/Winter 2011 collection.
The Blackbird Fly is modelled on the classic twin-lens medium format camera Rolleiflex. The double-barrel 35-mm-film camera used by Andy Warhol and James Dean.
It's a Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) camera, essentially meaning that there are two objective lenses. One for taking the photograph, and another for the waist-level viewfinder. Behind the viewfinder lens is a mirror at a 45-degree angle, which reflects upwards through a matter focusing screen surrounded by a hood/enclosure used to block some light and reduce reflection on the screen. This creates an image on the screen identical to what will be captured on film through the photographic lens.
It uses 35mm film! Most TLR cameras use 120 format film. Although 120 film is very cool, it can be much harder to find and even harder to get developed. With 35mm film you can just drop it off at the nearest 1-hour photo!
You can shoot in 3 formats (using provided masks): normal 35mm (24mm x 36mm), square format (24mm x 24mm), and large square format (36mm x 36mm).