{"id":15576,"date":"2015-09-04T08:40:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T15:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=15576"},"modified":"2015-09-04T08:49:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T15:49:25","slug":"konica-revio-z2-selfies-before-they-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=15576","title":{"rendered":"Konica Revio Z2 (Selfie’s before they were)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Konica Revio Z2 has a built in mirror to help with composing a self portrait while holding the camera.\u00a0 No sorry millennials you didn’t invent it\u00a0much like everything else.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Flipping screens and front facing cameras on\u00a0cell phones aren’t where this all started.\u00a0 I don’t know when the first person tried mounting a mirror on their camera but it probably wasn’t long after photography was invented.\u00a0 I have a Minolta disk camera with a built in front mirror that dates from 1983 but I’m sure some investigation could turn up earlier examples<\/p>\n

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\nEven\u00a0when the mirror isn’t on the camera for composing, people have been shooting their reflected image for a very long time.
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The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection, [Mother and child in front of mirror], courtesy of The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin<\/em>
\nOf course you can use a self timer or a remote release with a camera mounted on a tripod but those images would mostly fall under the self portrait end of the spectrum a selfie is something a little more while being a little less.<\/p>\n

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\nI took this ‘Selfie’ more than 25 years ago on Kodachrome 64 (gone) while taking the VIA train across Canada (gone, the route not the Country)<\/p>\n

So before there were selfies there was self portraits…what’s the difference anyway? Here is a handy little chart to help discern if you are taking a self-portrait or a selfie.
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\nAnd here is my selfie using the Konica Z2 with terrible APS film of course\u00a0(Note the bonus mirror reflection in the elevator)<\/p>\n

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And once again proving that I am on the right track destroying all the APS film in the world one frame at a time, images for your disapproval.<\/p>\n\n\t\t