
The Cardia was a really useful camera to have around: small enough to drop in your pocket, and capable of producing some very attractive exposures. There are always little scenes at the edges of our travels which we want to record and take with us. If they succeed, they take on a narrative quality and a life independent of the original moment.
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C.F. Ryal, 2009年03月06日

This camera, too, was a gift – from the same friend who brought the OM10 and the old SV. He gave it to Yaemi as a going-away present, and she used it in at least three different countries for over ten years. In the end, it came crashing down after a cat.
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C.F. Ryal, 2009年03月06日

Light, accurate, and easy to cart around – the SV is a good camera to take on short trips around and out of town. It’s entirely manual, without even a broken light meter, so it’s important to develop a sense of light balance and (as a fallback) decent metering technique. After a few years of practice, I think I have neither: my exposures are still far too rough.
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C.F. Ryal, 2009年03月04日

My first SV arrived together with the OM10: it had been around my friend’s family for a very long time, and is cosmetically fine – but functionally dead. There are a number of things wrong with it, but the most serious problem is a detached shutter curtain. A year or so after the first SV arrived, I bought a second, to use as a complement to the SP.
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C.F. Ryal, 2009年03月04日