Digital Camera Girl Famous Views Art Book

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In Digital Camera Girl Famous Views, the Hasselblad H3DII-50 camera is listed at ￥4,200,000. By today’s economy, that would be $49,099.84. I just felt the need to share that little fact. And while that is by no means the average camera price showcased in this art book, it helps put the other prices into perspective!

Like other pictorial books before it, Digital Camera Girl Famous Views includes extensive information about each of the cameras pictured, as well as illustrated girls to show them off. The works of 40 artists are captured in this 88 page, B5-sized book.

The cover art is by Takamichi, and the same picture is repeated inside along with camera info.

One thing I found interesting was that the illustrations and camera information are ordered via class: Entry models, mid-class models, and professional models. Since the prices are included with the information, I was surprised to see that there was a camera considered “entry level” priced in the thousands of dollars. It’s the one pictured above in the illustration by Kamo. All of the pictures above are from the “entry level” section, which includes a total of 20 illustrations, or in other words, half of the book.

The “mid-class models” make up the next 13 entries, which start with an illustration by ms picturing two school girls on a class trip. Some of the other artists in the section are Harikamo, Kuma Jet, Ebira, and Sakura Kotetsu. If you’re doing a little head-scratching with some of those names, well, you’re not the only one. But that’s a plus with these kinds of collections, it really does help you discover new artists!

Slightly better known, and still in the “mid-class models” section are illustrations by TOKIAME, Maruku, and Shiwasu Takashi. Maruku is one artist whose work I haven’t seen much in print, but who has a strong online presence.

The last seven illustrations are the “professional models.” The petite blonde girl above illustrated by Kiki is holding the most expensive camera in the book, the Hasselblad H3DII-50. Nanakusa, artist for Shinigami no Ballad also has an illustration in this section.

I found the majority of illustrations pretty impressive, and for the most part, they’re nicely designed with the girls being natural in the use of their cameras. Since it’s meant to be a pictorial book, I can’t fault it on length (it’s not like they could review every camera out there).