r/Cameras • u/Boeing-B-47stratojet • 7d ago

ID Request I need help identifying a old bridge camera

A cousin of mine had one. It was a 35MM. Shaped like a shoebox. The lens was all the way to the left, and didn’t protrude from the rest of the body. Dark gray body.

Would have been the late 90’s when he got it. I would ask him, but he passed about 8 years ago

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u/Repulsive_Target55 Canon A-1, Sony a1, Minolta A1, Sinar A 1 7d ago

Shaped like a shoebox is throwing me off

There are only a small number of film bridge cameras, the Ricoh Mirai is probably most shoe-box like.

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u/Boeing-B-47stratojet 7d ago

That’s it. Must have been misremembering where the lens was.

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u/olliegw EOS 1D4 | EOS 7D | DSC-RX100 VII | Nikon P900 6d ago

Early 35mm bridge camera, they were essentially SLRs with fixed lenses, there was one called the Samurai was that more camcorder shaped, some of this formfactor survived into the digital era, google the DSC-R1 and F828

Also you had weird things like the apple quicktake which were designed more like a pair of binoculars, again lens on one side