Which Camera is this (Daido Moriyama)

[antiquark]

On Akio Nagasawa's instagram page, there's a picture of Ol' Daido posing with a camera. Does anybody know which camera this is? See picture below!

 

[Ranchu]

I think it's a nikon something something from a few years ago, there's a youtube video where the guy follows him around as he's street shooting that has it in it.

 

[Archlich]

One of his Nikon Coolpix Point & Shoots. He has like a dozen of those almost identical looking S9100, S9500 and S9900.

There really is nothing magical about these cameras aside from being small and have a zoom lens.

 

[jsrockit]

Nikon Coolpix S7000

https://www.dpreview.com/products/nikon/compacts/nikon_cps7000

 

[antiquark]

Nikon Coolpix S7000

https://www.dpreview.com/products/nikon/compacts/nikon_cps7000

Jeez, pretty old camera. We should collect some funds and buy Daido a better one! 🙂

 

[jsrockit]

There really is nothing magical about these cameras aside from being small and have a zoom lens.

I think why he maybe uses it is because it is a 25mm at the wide end.

 

[Bar8barian]

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[Chuck Albertson]

Jeez, pretty old camera. We should collect some funds and buy Daido a better one! 🙂

I think he's getting by just fine with what he has. He's certainly selling more photos than I am, and I have a slicker camera.

 

[jsrockit]

I am almost certain that he did a famous shoot, in New York in 1971,using a half- frame Olympus Pen W camera which had a fixed 25mm E.Zuiko-W f2.8 lens.

A lot of the early work used this camera, but a 25mm on half frame isn't the same.

 

[schaki]

Interesting that he uses that Coolpix S7000 which not have very good image quality. Too much Noise reduction smudging of fooliage and grass etc adn the in camera sharpness is at least one notch too high. The sharpness issue can be dealt with but not the in-camera NR.
See review what it is up to. https://ephotozine.com/article/nikon-coolpix-s7000-review-27480

Perhaps he would be better off with Panasonic Lumix ZS 70 which have Raw-format. It also have 24mm like every other super-zoom compact. https://dpreview.com/products/panasonic/compacts/panasonic_dczs70

And I still stick with my old 2005 super-zoom compact. Ricoh Caplio R3 which only have 28-200mm zoom but uses very little NR indeed and have fast AF and superb optical performance as far as good samples go.

 

[jsrockit]

Interesting that he uses that Coolpix S7000 which not have very good image quality. Too much Noise reduction smudging of fooliage and grass etc adn the in camera sharpness is at least one notch too high. The sharpness issue can be dealt with but not the in-camera NR.

He doesn't strike me as the type that cares about this stuff.

 

[Archlich]

A lot of the early work used this camera, but a 25mm on half frame isn't the same.

Reminds me some of his earliest works. Made with a Nikon S2 and a 25/4.

 

[Archlich]

He doesn't strike me as the type that cares about this stuff.

IMO he and his style does care about image quality. Not for the fineness though. Smudgy detail, pitch black shadow and blown highlights - these are what he's been looking for. So much effort did he spent in the darkroom in the 60's to achieve that look, and now it's readily available. Must be a dream came true.

It's quite ironic that now people use very fine cameras (like the APS-C Ricoh GR) and purposefully degrade the images or use the built-in "Daido Mode" for that look. Perhaps they don't know much about the man.


Some cameras sightings:

 

[ProSimex]

One of those "it's the photographer not the gear" things

 

[sojournerphoto]

A read of Sean Reid on small sensor cameras is worth while - a few years old, but still as useful as ever

Mike

 

[Frontman]

He doesn't strike me as the type that cares about this stuff.

He'll shoot with anything. He has used a lot of cameras, and when he tires of them, or they stop working, he sells them (or gives them away) to a particular shop. I have an old Rolleiflex that he used to own, and it is quite beat up, I got it cheap. I had another of his old cameras, but gave it to a friend.

 

[Axel]

Interesting that he uses that Coolpix S7000 which not have very good image quality. Too much...

... and so on and so on ...

It´s not the gear - it´s the photographer who takes the picture.
As much as I personally dislike Nikon stuff I wouldn´t complain that cameras of this brand are able to ruin good pictures 😉

But as we can see here

this guy has been equipped better meanwhile 😀

 

[Huss]

Forget the camera, what about those cool T shirts?

 

[jsrockit]

IMO he and his style does care about image quality. Not for the fineness though. Smudgy detail, pitch black shadow and blown highlights - these are what he's been looking for. So much effort did he spent in the darkroom in the 60's to achieve that look, and now it's readily available. Must be a dream came true.

Yeah, I meant things like sharpness and fine detail.

 

[jsrockit]

But as we can see here

this guy has been equipped better meanwhile 😀

What is this?? It's not any GR or GXR that I can think of...

Ah...GX200