"Black Bird Fly" Arrives!

Sep 30, 2008 at 4:11 AM
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Finally, this nice little 135 Twin Lens Reflex plastic camera created from scratch by Superheadz will arrive Hong Kong exclusively at city'super/LOGON in Oct/Nov!

BBF with flash

I knew about this from Superheadz since last year and they've been sending prototypes to selected photographers around the world for testing and testing and testing. In addition to their 110 cute cameras, this will make history in the world of toy camera. Drooling to play with it for a long time, finally I received a sample this August. Obviously Superheadz took tremendous effort to make it perfect before they are comfortable giving me a sample to try. I've seen Hiruma san on Tokyo's street talking on the phone in sweat with the manufacturer because of the flood in China back in July, which explains the delay in release.

During this launch, only 3 colors will appear in the market. Black, Orange and Blue. But I've seen other colors in their office back in July, red, brown and yellow. In addition, somewhere on Flickr I saw white too.

BBF in Powershovel's Office

The most amazing things I like about BBF is built-in film counter (no more camera backs/adaptors), removable film masks to create sprocket holes effect and square photos, not to mention a hot shoe for flash. Instantly tons of things to play with just like Holga or even more. I'm so glad both LOMO and Superheadz are now deviating their paths further by doing things other than the most popular Holga, differentiating from each other instead of competing with fancy packaging and Holga accessories only. LOMO's new path is with Diana, while Superheadz with 110 cameras and BBF.

BBF in Powershovel's Office

The Plastic Lens' Artpunk already has several preview articles about BBF's features here, here and here. Thanks Artpunk!

The Plastic Lens' Review of BBF

I've created a "Black Bird Fly" camera and photos Flickr group so if you have photos taken by BBF or photos of your beloved BBF, please go there and share/discuss! I can't wait to see how my photos are developed, will soon share.

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re: Thanks Artpunk! ~ my pleasure! Thanks for the extra information and posts on the BBF, it's good to see stuff about it that hasn't been written by me! This is a very exciting camera, I'm in love with it! btw - I just got around to joining the flickr group you created and invited me to as well, sorry it took so long!

Cheers!

Cameron (aka artpunk)

It is definitely a great location on this Flickr group to discuss and share experience. I'm dreaming up some mods to share later on.

this cam is sooo nice...do you have any idea when this cam is available in hk? thanks mate~

this cam is soo cute~ do you have any idea when this cam will be released in hk? thank you ^^

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I want one! But 890.-HK$ ; I'll have to wait a little...

And I also want some of the Kolo albums !!

Mumu, they promised to arrive these few weeks. They won't be able to fulfill 100% of our order, I'm assuming to be sold out very soon. So I suspect it will be end of Oct when you will see stock in city'super.

Alex, yeah it is a bit expensive especially for a plastic camera. They insist us to follow a price approx. same as everywhere it will be sold.

i love this camera and am thinking about getting one but i want to know what kind of flash to get. i see that you have a flash in the first picture and i want to know what kind it is

Patrick Ng replied to Mellissa H’s comment:
Oct 14, 2009
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the flash is from lomo called "Color splash flash"

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