- Title: JAPAN: Tenth annual handmade camera exhibition opens
- Date: 2nd March 1985
- Summary: SCU AND CU Tiny camera which may be worn as pendant (3 shots) CU Man trying out slide viewer in shape of rice cake
- Embargoed: 17th March 1985 12:00
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- Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
- Country: Japan
- Topics: Royalty
- Reuters ID: LVA1PF7JAJACPJQKK6F07POQD1E7
- Story Text: A remarkable array of home-made cameras, many not looking like cameras at all, went on display in Tokyo on March 1, at the tenth annual home-made camera exhibition, the only one of its kind in the world. One camera looked like a telephone, while another could be worn as a pendant. Among the most unusual was a slide viewer made to look like a rice cake. Their inventors were there to demonstrate how their creations worked. A 'two-eyed' camera had the main advantage of taking very wide-angle pictures, or panoramas. One enthusiast had gone a step further, building what he called a 'ten-eyed' camera, very useful for taking fast-moving action, as staggered shutter openings facilitate quick-sequence photography. For would-be spies, the tiny camera, worn as a pendant, could rest easily in the palm of the hand. And for the joker, keen on surprising guests at a dinner-party, a slide viewer concealed in a box looking like a cake.
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