Mika

Akira & Fuku

They can make goofy faces well.

Shinsuke

Smile

I am lucky to have met these guys who love photographs, cameras, drinking, karaoke, and clubbing just like I do.

Fashion

I couldn't agree more with what my friend John tells us through his website TokyoCameraStyle.

"Cameras are wonderful little contraptions. By making photographs, they are tools with which one can express their personal taste and private sensibilities. At the same time they physically exist as expressions of these same concepts. The relationship one has with their cameras affects their approach to making a picture."

（カメラは素晴らしき小さな機械だ。写真を作り出すことによって、カメラは個人のテイストや私的な感受性を表現するツールとなる。と同時に、それらの概念の表現体として、カメラは物理的にも存在する。個人のカメラとの関係性は、どんな写真を作り出すかというアプローチの仕方に影響している。）

Tatsuya uses a beautiful Rolleiflex.

Looking at the way he holds it gently, point it at something, and changes films in it, it just feels right. It's part of his fashion, although he doesn't use it just as a fashion item. He takes beautiful photographs with it. It matches his personality too.

Automatic

I've been using this fantastic middle format camera called FujiGA645wi lately.

It's automatic.

Sometimes it is better for me if I can just point and shoot without thinking about exposure time or shutter speed. I can even release the shutter with one hand just like using a compact camera. It's awesome.

But now I miss my Nikon and taking time on focusing and stuff.

I should take it out and shoot with it sometime soon.

Tatsuya

Shinsuke