Ricoh FF9s I see through you
The Limited Edition Fully Automatic See-Thru 35mm Panoramic Camera… only it isn’t. Clearly it can’t be completely transparent, that wouldn’t work with film now would it? That’s not the only thing though, Ricoh used the term panoramic to refer to setting focus to infinity and the flash off, which isn’t what comes to mind when I think of a panorama. The clear plastic showing the cameras inner workings is the most conspicious thing about it but it’s also a decent camera from the time, though a little chunky.
September 22nd, 2015 at 7:21 am
[…] to correct the marketing hype on the front of the camera as I’ve stated before in this post Ricoh FF9SD the camera is not see through as much as see into and panoramic isn’t anything more that […]