Oh this is awesome. Six riders have taken this camera down a slope – “Each rider is doing their own awesome tricks, none of which you can see with just the one camera angle so you have to keep re-watching it,” says Tom. The camera’s atop a giant triangular frame (you can see the shadow if you scroll around – it looks wonderfully silly).

The technology to view and control complete panoramas has been flitting about over the last year, taken around festivals over the summer. Dancing people in fields was all well and fine but it’s so much better taken up a mountain doing something I love (technically I’m a skier – I’ve tried boarding twice and both love and hate it). Crunching about in big boots in the snow this weekend was already making me yearn to be hurling myself down a mountain. This has made it x10. Watch/play with it.

When I went home for Christmas my Father dragged out an old camera of his. Apparently he used to have lots of fun habits including rally driving, motorbiking, and using hip leather-bound cameras. Brilliant coincidence.

I’ve never really used analogue and the camera’s got a separate light-meter which was lovely but prompted two pages of badly written notes in case I forgot everything the minute I took it out by myself. I’ve now progressing to the photo-taking speed of a bumbling tourist, which is progress. I left the flashgun and bulbs at home, because they’re fuzzy magnesium one-use-only and I don’t trust myself with analogue. My only previous experiences of it include watching my Father hide inside a heavy velvet curtain to change film. I always looked at film pots with some sort of awe.

But it’s lots of fun, and I’m very proud of the camera in a strange way. Although it occurs to me that I have to take the film out at some point.

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This is one gorgeous, sexy and wildly inappropriate camera that I do not in any way need (apparently you can stick a bit of leather on any old camera and I’ll love it).

It’s a lovely-looking camera with some specs that mean a limited amount to me, it has some down sides:

It’s called the E-P1 pen – which is a pun in the same realm as the Harman Kardon GLA-55 speakers, so called because they are made of glass.

Their advertising uses Stop Motion. And whilst this is not full-stop a bad thing and follows a man from 1959 when the E-P1 camera was released through to the present day (I see chuffed people in a brainstorm following that), it’s dull. Think Wolf and Pig (in fact it’s a direct Youtube response) but longer, and released when Stop Motion had definitely become old. So it’s dull and long.

Which is a shame because the camera is the sex. Feel free to disagree with me on either.