
2001
Digital Camera System “Homage to the Barnack’s Leica”
素材: アルミニウム、アクリル樹脂
寸法: 108.5 x 64 x 42mm
プロジェクト開始: 2001年1月 / 完了: 2001年5月
デザイナー: 山中俊治
プロトタイプ製作: 日南株式会社
クライアント: 松下電器産業株式会社(現パナソニック株式会社)
A set of digital camera and its add-on peripherals was designed for Panasonic in 2001. The digital camera technology allowed for so much design freedom in contrast with the conventional 35mm film cameras and most designs went for integration of multiple functions in a small package that sometimes required performance compromise. Drawing inspirations from classic Leica camera system designed by Oskar Barnack in 1930’s, this set took the opposite modular approach and contains a simple minimal camera unit accompanied by separate add-on equipment such as flashbulb, large display, optical viewfinder, and Interface unit. Although not yet produced in mass quantities, The prototype of this camera was undoubtedly a proposition that led the development of digital camera systems after 2010.
MATERIAL: Aluminum, Acrylic resin, Circuitry
DIMENSION: 108.5 x 64 x 42mm
PROJECT STARTED: January 2001 / COMPLETED: May 2001
DESIGNER: Shunji Yamanaka
PROTOTYPE FABRICATION: Nichinan Corp.
CLIENT: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Corporation)













