I started my 52 cameras in 52 weeks project on 1st January 2010. It got rather out of hand and lasted a whole decade. Each week, without fail, I used a different film camera, a total of 522.
After 10 years, I am relaxing the pace and using "new" cameras as and when I feel like it. This one was originally part of the Secret Sam Spy Outfit made by Topper in the 1960s. It consisted of an attaché case with all the things a modern spy needed, including a machine gun and a camera. Both the gun and the camera could be fired while the case was closed, making it the ideal outfit for covert operations. The camera is an ultra simple 127 format box camera, taking 16 exposure on a roll, the only thing that marks it out from similar run of the mill plastic cameras is that it has an extra long shutter release lever, which passes through a hole in the case, allowing the shutter to be triggered discretely. The rest of the outfit has long since disappeared into the past, but the camera survives, and still works.

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I started my 52 cameras in 52 weeks project on 1st January 2010. It got rather out of hand and lasted a whole decade. Each week, without fail, I used a different film camera, a total of 522.
After 10 years, I am relaxing the pace and using "new" cameras as and when I feel like it. This one was originally part of the Secret Sam Spy Outfit made by Topper in the 1960s. It consisted of an attaché case with all the things a modern spy needed, including a machine gun and a camera. Both the gun and the camera could be fired while the case was closed, making it the ideal outfit for covert operations. The camera is an ultra simple 127 format box camera, taking 16 exposure on a roll, the only thing that marks it out from similar run of the mill plastic cameras is that it has an extra long shutter release lever, which passes through a hole in the case, allowing the shutter to be triggered discretely. The rest of the outfit has long since disappeared into the past, but the camera survives, and still works.

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I started my 52 cameras in 52 weeks project on 1st January 2010. It got rather out of hand and lasted a whole decade. Each week, without fail, I used a different film camera, a total of 522.
After 10 years, I am relaxing the pace and using "new" cameras as and when I feel like it. This one was originally part of the Secret Sam Spy Outfit made by Topper in the 1960s. It consisted of an attaché case with all the things a modern spy needed, including a machine gun and a camera. Both the gun and the camera could be fired while the case was closed, making it the ideal outfit for covert operations. The camera is an ultra simple 127 format box camera, taking 16 exposure on a roll, the only thing that marks it out from similar run of the mill plastic cameras is that it has an extra long shutter release lever, which passes through a hole in the case, allowing the shutter to be triggered discretely. The rest of the outfit has long since disappeared into the past, but the camera survives, and still works.

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I started my 52 cameras in 52 weeks project on 1st January 2010. It got rather out of hand and lasted a whole decade. Each week, without fail, I used a different film camera, a total of 522.
After 10 years, I am relaxing the pace and using "new" cameras as and when I feel like it. This one was originally part of the Secret Sam Spy Outfit made by Topper in the 1960s. It consisted of an attaché case with all the things a modern spy needed, including a machine gun and a camera. Both the gun and the camera could be fired while the case was closed, making it the ideal outfit for covert operations. The camera is an ultra simple 127 format box camera, taking 16 exposure on a roll, the only thing that marks it out from similar run of the mill plastic cameras is that it has an extra long shutter release lever, which passes through a hole in the case, allowing the shutter to be triggered discretely. The rest of the outfit has long since disappeared into the past, but the camera survives, and still works.

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Triple exposure taken with "Camera 523", the Secret Sam Spy Camera.
I started my 52 cameras in 52 weeks project on 1st January 2010. It got rather out of hand and lasted a whole decade. Each week, without fail, I used a different film camera, a total of 522.
After 10 years, I am relaxing the pace and using "new" cameras as and when I feel like it. This one was originally part of the Secret Sam Spy Outfit made by Topper in the 1960s. It consisted of an attaché case with all the things a modern spy needed, including a machine gun and a camera. Both the gun and the camera could be fired while the case was closed, making it the ideal outfit for covert operations. The camera is an ultra simple 127 format box camera, taking 16 exposure on a roll, the only thing that marks it out from similar run of the mill plastic cameras is that it has an extra long shutter release lever, which passes through a hole in the case, allowing the shutter to be triggered discretely. The rest of the outfit has long since disappeared into the past, but the camera survives, and still works.
The film is Efke 100 black and white, developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 10 minutes at 20 degrees.

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