More 1950s Japan

[xayraa33]

About 12 years after the end of WW 2

See if you can spot the young man with a Canon VT or Canon L series RF camera in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsFbM71LD8w

 

[peterm1]

It is an undeniably beautiful place. Particularly before significant parts were concreted over. (sigh). I admire the Japanese peoples' discipline too. And their culture generally. Thanks for the video BTW.

 

[xayraa33]

It is an undeniably beautiful place. Particularly before significant parts were concreted over. (sigh). I admire the Japanese peoples' discipline too. And their culture generally. Thanks for the video BTW.

Interesting that they seem to always have had a love of photography and cameras in general, and in a place with many privations that was still recovering from the war over a decade after its end.
And wages were pitifully small there for most folks like in many places in Europe at that time, yet luxury items like fine (home grown) cameras are not scarce around the Japanese people's necks and hands.

 

[charjohncarter]

The future of camera makers was sealed in 1945: Japan would rule that business.

 

[tunalegs]

Interesting that they seem to always have had a love of photography and cameras in general, and in a place with many privations that was still recovering from the war over a decade after its end.
And wages were pitifully small there for most folks like in many places in Europe at that time, yet luxury items like fine (home grown) cameras are not scarce around the Japanese people's necks and hands.

It has always amazed me how many Argus A cameras were sold in the middle of the great depression. Yes, they were cheap cameras, but they were not that cheap. I suppose people really saw the importance of being able to keep record of their lives.