Features
For playful photographic purposes, the BlackBird "Blackbird, fly" Twin-Lens Reflex (TLR) Camera
(aka, the BFF) is a novel camera cashing in on the 'fantastic plastic'
craze. The BFF revels in its low-tech simplicity having quite a bit in
common with a disposable camera - and that's a good thing. The
uniqueness prompted by optical and mechanical imprecision is a
desirable flavor in which to imbue photographs with. This genre of
image making is meant to be youthful, spry, moody and experimental. A
Twin Lens Reflex camera such as the Blackbird Fly, possesses an optical
pathway that differs from common SLR and point & shoot camera in
that it has a pair of over-and-under lenses. The bottom lens, or taking
lens, contains the aperture and shutter assembly with the film plane is
behind it. The upper lens, or viewing lens, is solely for composition,
and has a reflex mirror that projects the image upwards to a horizontal
ground glass shielded by a chimney stack hood. The main advantage
of the TLR design is that the viewfinder is never blacked-out by a
mirror during activation of the shutter, so the moment isn't missed
while exposing the image.
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