The Clear Prism

1976 · Microcomputer-Controlled SLR Camera · Work 1133 of 1,871

A small camera shop in a covered shopping arcade in Osaka on a spring evening, warm lamps above a glass counter, on a square of black velvet on the counter a cutaway demonstration model of a single-lens reflex camera about fifteen centimetres wide, its body silver and black with a textured black covering, its top cover and prism housing of clear plastic revealing folded yellow and orange flexible circuit strips, fine coloured wires and tiny components, a standard lens with plain black rings, a film advance lever at right, a shop assistant's hand in a white shirt cuff pointing at the circuits, shelves of black camera bodies soft behind.