So yesterday I had a chance to check out this camera show with Michael from 6oh. The show was up in Thornhill so Michael picked me up along the way, which was nice not driving for a change. The show was at the Thornhill Community Centre and the room where they were having the show was not very large. It felt pretty cramped with all the vendors, dealers and patrons, but that didn’t stop us from checking out the warez. It was a pretty slow start and we were overwhealmed by the crowd and underwhealmed by the deals. We ran into Jordan from photosensitive.

It wasn’t until we made it to the last corner of the gymnasium when I found a dealer with a bunch of random boxes under his table. Aftre a quick sift I emerged with something called the Bioflex which is a faux TLR double lens box camera. It’s plastic feel had an instant appeal to me so I talked the guy down in price and got me a new camera. Doing a quick google search, it seems that there are a handful of these TLR floating around, one person even calling it the big brother to the diana. Hopefully I will have a roll shot off this week so I can get some samples up onto the SQUARED site.

The rest of the show was a bit of a bust for me. There were a few interesting deals to be had, but none that I followed through with. We weaved through the aisles at least 4 times contemplating two different camera bags, a few 77mm filters for my sigma lens, a retro camera strap (which actually was this weird suspender design strap), some slide carousels and a remote for my Canon A2. Strangely enough I restrained myself from making any rash purchases and settled in on 10 rolld of outdated Konica 400iso 120 colour film.

Apparently the next two shows will be in January and March again at the Thornhill Community Centre.