Sad news from Japan

[RaglanSurf]

I’ve just read on a film Facebook group that Keiichiro Nagaoka has passed away

Last Man Standing

I mentioned (and pictured) a Wista field view camera yesterday. You might be interested to know that Keiichiro Nagaoka, builder of a similar but competing 4x5, is the last craftsman still building wooden cameras by hand in Japan. He was...

theonlinephotographer.typepad.com

Builder of one of my favourite cameras.

 

[steveo_mcg]

What a shame they really don't make crafts people like that anymore.

 

[lindsay]

Like, for the camera and the man, not his demise obviously.

 

[ChrisH]

Sadly as I and many get older the number of true craftspeople ( PC correct ) are getting fewer.

Less and less in life is hand made, with care and a love of the object. I sat for 15 minutes and watched a YouTube of a Japanese guy making a small teapot, sounds boring but his attention to detail and his concentration was captivating. The end product was " just " a teapot but I would have loved it on my shelf.

Sad to see another artisan go, a real loss to this mechanised, computerised world.