Gloriously retro wooden box camera contains its own film processing lab
If you’re a fan of Buster Keaton’s 1928 silent film The Cameraman, and are intrigued by his portrayal of a street photographer who processes his own film, then you might want to check out the Alfie BOXX camera currently on Kickstarter.
The BOXX, a retro-inspired handcrafted wooden camera, combines the spirit of slow methodical 19th-century photography and 21st-century accessibility with an in-camera process that enables black and white 6 x 9-cm (2.36 x 3.54-in) prints to be developed entirely inside the camera body while out in the field.
Created by British product designer Dave Faulkner, whose Alfie Tych half-frame camera we previously covered, the BOXX is described by Faulkner as being able to “go from photo composition to printmaking,” and to put a “complete analogue experience in the palm of your hand.”
When fitted with a 100-mm lens, the device measures 139 x 98 x 118 mm (5.47 x...
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