Tony, Bob, and Steven talk about the cameras that Steven has carried with him every day of his life.

Presented by

Bob Fairbairn – Instagram: @m43bobhttps://instagram.com/m43bob

Steven Bramson

Tony Tang – Instagram: @tonytangprohttps://instagram.com/tonytangpro

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Bob: Good evening. Welcome to the podcast from the three techs. Uh, this is your host, Bob Fairbairn. I’m joined by my co-hosts Tony Tang. 

Steven: Hey, Bob and 

Bob: Steven Branson. 

Steven: Hi there. 

Bob: Good evening to both of you tonight. We’re going to continue a little bit of our discussion about pocket cameras, and we’re very pleased to have Steven back with us again, Steven, where you want to go ahead and start.

Steven: So for me at any rate, the essence of a pocket camera is about what I call planned versus unplanned photography. If you’re going to a place or an event. And you want to photograph that that would be planned photography and you’ll probably grab a specific camera to help you photograph that thing. But unplanned photography is you had nothing particular in mind and you just want to have a camera with you.

And then for a pocket camera, my criteria or my key question is. Does it actually fit in a pocket? And what, what size pocket does it fit? In, in my case, the kind of pocket I want to fit into his trouser or pants pocket, but other options might be a jacket or out of pocket. And then for ladies, maybe it’s a camera that fits in a purse or a handbag.

It probably gives you a little bit more options. Size-wise. I’ve been using a pocket camera for many, many years. So I started with an Olympus stylists or in the Europe. That’s known as the Olympus view, which is a film Emre from 1991, which was a truly outstanding camera. Just very nice to use. Excellent results, but it did have a mechanical problem.

You would open the door at the front of the camera and the lens would pop out. And after a lot of films have gone through the camera, you find that you opened the door and the lens no longer popped out, or the door just flapped open and wouldn’t close 

Tony: mechanical problems eventually from opening, closing and things getting caught in it or whatever.

Steven: Yes. Well, the solution to that is just buy another one. Sure. I will. Four of them out or broke four of them, whichever way he wants to look at it and was actually working through the fifth one. And when I finally bought my first digital camera 

Tony: and what . 

Steven: It was really quite late in the game. It was a 2005.

The popular camera’s at the time was seven megapixels with, uh, the one over 1.8 inch sensors. So lot of cameras had that Canon and Sony Nikon all using the same size sensor and those pocket cameras would have been three or $400, something like that. I chose this stylist 800, because it was actually remarkably similar in size and weight and general appearance to the original Olympus stylist film camera.

So I started carrying that, so I looked up some stats on it. So my film camera was about seven ounces.