The Most Beautiful Camera EVER??? The amazing 1960 Edixa Reflex

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[MathieuStern]

Thank you again to everyone involved in making this video go viral !
Also thanks to the folks who have donated on Patreon, it's keeping this channel going.

[mikemuponda]

This makes me feel like in the far future we will make the most perfect camera and get bored with it because we realize how beautiful the imperfections and limitations were. I wonder if perfection is something we always want until we have it and it bores us to death in minutes. I feel like Perfection in a human context should be reserved not for things without flaws but things with flaws that we grow to completely embrace and assimilate as part of that thing's "character".

[MicaelWidell]

The expired film together with the high ISO make the photos almost look like paintings!

[SuiSlyder]

for some reason, this video unlocked nostalgia of things I've never experienced.

[Scubadog_]

I actually absolutely loved the "bad framing" with the seagull! The sky gave it a LOT of breathing room. The nature of the film made it also desaturated and low contrast enough that the sea of blue doesn't burn your eyes out. A very relaxing picture to look at.

[MarkHoltze]

it's definitely got that expired film grain aesthetic. I'm absolutely smitten by the reflector view finder on the Edixa, it's the main reason I fell in love with the form factor on medium format cameras, it's just a magical experience.

[nirvana]

Nothing like the magic of viewing a scene without the top prism of a camera. There's just something so magical and dreamlike in the image projected, right there and yet so distanced and different. Thanks for sharing these wonderful images and scenes with us

[SteveWB]

Your videos take me on a nostalgic relaxed journey that is a welcome break from a modern chaotic world. Thank You!

[sushi_donut]

5:21 - I honestly love the first "bad framing" picture. It feels very whimsical to me :)

[randallstewart]

For a brief period around 1959-1960, the Edixa Reflex was one of the most technically attractive cameras. At the time, I was getting ready for high school and growing tired of the limitations of my first real camera, a Contax II. My future purchase options included the Nikon F (too expensive), the Exakta (the most accessories and lenses by far), the Edixa Reflex, and the Pentax. The Exakta got scratched because it was even then frozen in time and unlikely to develop in the future. Being East German, it was also subject to a variety of politically motivated restrictions in the US. The Edixa was priced right, but got scratched because its maker was a small, second tier German maker who mostly made low cost dreck for the local market. The Edixa was their one really nice camera, and they made no lenses. (The M42 mount mentioned in the video was then growing in popularity, but did not dominate the industry as later came to pass in the 1960s.) I was almost ready to buy the Pentax when a sudden generous contribution moved me up to a Nikkorex F and 50mm 1.4. The Edixa was gone a few years, and its maker closed out of making cameras around 1965, after rejecting first option to build what later became the Rollei 35. (Talk about cursed to the bitter end!)

[ilovelimpfries]

I don't know how to explain it, but there's a soul in those pictures. Something that completely devoid in modern digital cameras.

[bleumoom]

Mathieu, this is a beautiful video. Watching the scenes with the view finder brought so much nostalgia and sadness. The viewfinder encapsulates idyllic scenes, with enough character to make it feel surreal or dissociated from reality. It feels untouchable. A memory kept pristine within the frame of a glass lens.

I've experienced so much, for me, in my life the past several years and during covid. I am undeniably changing and also drifting from past experiences. Sometimes I wish to revisit those experiences. And at times I feel extremely sad for things that I've lost. It is bittersweet--looking at the past through a new lens. Which is perhaps analogous yet contrary to this video--looking at the present through a past lens.

I realize that sometimes in life I need gratitude. That we can appreciate what we were and what we are now. Through the eyes of the present, reflecting upon the past grants us perspective. What would the eyes of the past, gazing upon the future grant us? I am thankful. For my past self getting me this far.

[TerryMurrayTalks]

A beautiful camera which reminded me of my early days of family photography. My wife to be, presented me a Pentax Spotmatic F for my 21st Birthday 49 years ago. Had great fun photographing our 6 children's lives throughout the last quarter of the last century. Took it out for a spin 5 years ago, it was a reminder of just how slowly and carefully you needed to be to take good photographs. Thanks for the video. Happy days :)

[robertharp]

Been drooling over the edixa reflex for awhile and you did an amazing job showing this camera in all its glory. Also they way you crafted this video alone is on a whole other level.

[carljuztine]

coming back to this video after months and months and months later is just lovely

[rkk]

Love the vintage vibes .. brings back the memory I never have. Something nostalgic feels to see the photo.

[bishfire]

Those colors look so familiar, reminds me of those huge albums we used to have from old non-digital Cameras age!!! Wow....

[mgamm]

Your photos are really beautiful and that matters a lot. They are thoughtful, pleasant, and enjoyable to view.

[hariranormal]

Seeing at old photos may bring you memories, one after the other, and then seeing the thing which took all those pictures will give you even more

[archAli-xypj]

Whenever i feel anxious, i comeback and watch this video, thank you for the shots and the music.