Robert and Andre speak in one voice and whilst they’re not quite at the point of finishing each other’s sentences, they’re close. The Q&A you see in this article has been put together over the past fortnight and a bit. They accepted with glee and we’ve remained in close contact for the best part of the past four months. What is it about box cameras that has kept them alive and why do they continue to enamour and attract so many photographers, especially when there are so many options out there for exercising absolute control over exposure? More to the point, what on earth does a new box camera have any business doing coming to market in 2018, and why would anyone in their right mind think it was a good idea to try and make it happen?įor an answer to these admittedly ranty questions, I felt it would be best to wad them into a ball and throw them over to Robert Hamm and his PR director Andre Domingues. That said, there’s no arguing that they have stayed the course and many of us can still be found out and about on the streets shooting with these odd, 100 year old, leather covered biscuit tins. One of the projects created as a result of trying to meet those needs is the Nubox, a new box camera created by Robert Hamm of Hamm Camera, which blipped to life on my radar in the second half of 2017.Įven in the mainstream of the analogue photography community, box cameras are seen by many as vestigial organs of early film photography an almost Stone Age representation of camera technology. In short, it was members of the community stepping up to serve needs that weren’t being met. They were not (as some have reported), a knee-jerk reaction to the Big Yellow Box rumbling into action.Ģ017’s analogue photography explosion was the result of years of dedicated and mostly silent efforts from the community in an effort to help themselves in the absence of organised and effective industry support. Thinking outside the box: the Hamm Camera Nubox 1 aka self-support in the analogue film community - EMULSIVE Close Search for:
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