While recently browsing the wall of retired cameras that came with our apartment, I stumbled across one humble looking fellow who looked as if he might still work.
the fantastic plastic 50s Beacon
A little digging around online confirmed this vintage snapper as a Beacon 225 – a stylish Bakelite plastic creation from the 50s, and still in perfect working order. Sweet!
Not only is it a med-format point-n-shoot (crazy in itself..), you also have to pull the ‘lens’ out from the body before shooting. Ha!
After a bit of work with a pocketknife I was able to wrangle a roll of ‘modern’ medium-format film into the beast’s innards, and I set off for NYC, confident the muggers there would not bother stabbing me for anything less than a digital Nikon D90.
The pics weren’t bad, I double-exposed a bunch on purpose and a bunch more because I am a moron, but that’s the fun of it, right?
New Bedford house and ...Brooklyn bridge. whoops.
NYC
croquet is so stupid. lawn bowls, now there's a sport.
this one was intentional.
