Neons (2004 in 東京)
Selected neons shot in 2004 in the Kabukicho/Shinjuku area including Shinjuku JR station, Golden Gai and Kabukicho.
Selected neons shot in 2004 in the Kabukicho/Shinjuku area including Shinjuku JR station, Golden Gai and Kabukicho.

Sometimes, before I leave for a NO-SLEEP NO-REST night in Kabukicho and Golden Gai, I stop by Lucky Camera. They have such a wide selection of lenses and cameras. They’re great. Pay them a visit if you’re a vintage camera enthusiast, they have everything, and at a good price.
Can’t wait to see if they’re going to lower their prices. After all, an M8.2 + a decent lens costs 18’000USD!
Killer photos, I don’t know what to say, great grain, nice color, and superb settings. Thumbs up!

This piece of photo gear anthology is my main tool when it comes to street snap, it’s a Ricoh GRDII. I’ve used Ricoh cameras for 13 years now. I love Ricoh. As the GRDIII version will be released this month, I’m sharing a few links with you, enjoy, buy it, then send me your photos!
RICOH
DPREVIEW
FASHIONLIFECREW
HYPEBEAST
ps: new firmware 2.4 for the GRDII : GRDII 2.4 firmware

A very interesting camera indeed. Check a few in-depths articles as well as the official website.
DPReview
Digital Camera HQ
The Online Photographer
Steve Huff Photo
StudioVoice Artistlife site
Official website (jp)
Official website (eng)

This is my friend Kenichi, he’s from Tokyo, he’s a game designer/producer, he’s into Ricoh GRDII too. We met at Design Festa in Tokyo, spring 2008. He saw my camera and we instantly clicked, we shot eachother with our GRDII. Instant friendship. Kenichi has a dog too, and he’s very cool indeed (ok I love dogs). We share some similar taste in 80′s music and 90′a techno clubs like Space Lab Yellow (they closed down unfortunately). Here’s some of Kenichi’s works. And you can read and watch his Ricoh photo blogging at Route24, his independent company. Works: Newtonica, ????DS (hilarious, try it really!), iClick. Oh and we met again in January at one of my favorite vegetarian restaurants in Azabu-juban, “eat mort greens” (please support this restaurant, it’s an independent eatery with quality meals at good prices), and after that we went to Oldvine (his friend is the owner). That’s us there, by the way.

In Shinjuku, there’s always tons of poster ads on top of eachother.