I am an artist, college student, wife, mother, New Yorker, amateur photographer and vintage camera enthusiast. Trying to figure out my niche in the photography world, and hopefully take my place in it.
"I am not a nice girl, I am a photographer." - Berenice Abbott
Yesterday I reblogged a post about the RE35. A 35mm cartridge that would enable you to use your vintage film cameras to take digital photos with. I sent an email to the company only to get a disappointing email back.. I knew it was too good to be true. The more I thought about it, the more the designed seemed to be unable to do the task that they said it could do. April fools I guess :/ They said they had some crazy release date they thought that everyone would figure it wasn’t for real but I didn’t see it.
Oh well.. below, the email I received back. Somebody please make this thing!
Thankyou for your enquiry about Re35.
Some good news:
The feedback to our “product” has truly been overwhelming. It seems Re-35 really addresses a need and people worldwide can‚t seem to wait to get their hands on our “product”.
The bad news:
Some things are to good to be true!
Re35 does not really exist. We (the design company Rogge & Pott) created Re35 as an exercise in identity-design. We invented the “product” because it was something, that we had wished for for a long time (as many others).
We launched the website and sent out ”press releases” on April first - thinking, that the date would make clear, that Re35 is just wishful thinking - a classic April Fools Prank!
However:
All this attention Re35 ist getting might actually be good for something. It proves, that there is a gigantic community of photographers with analog equipment out there that is desperately waiting for a product like this to come along.
We hope there are no hard feelings
and that you are not too disappointed.
Cheers from Germany.
Henning Rogge
