Anno Cam

Ten decades of photography, live in the viewfinder. Turn the dial from 1930 to 2020 and the grain, the colour and the frame rate all change with the year. Anno is a camera that shoots in any decade from 1930 to 2020. Turn the dial and the viewfinder changes with it. Not a filter applied afterwards, but the way that year's photography actually worked, rendered live on the camera feed before you take the shot. TEN DECADES, BUILT FROM HOW CAMERAS SAW 1930 Orthochromatic black and white. The film could not see red, so skies burn out. 1940 Panchromatic 1950 Press black and white 1960 Tri-X, pushed 1970 Documentary 1980 VHS 1990 Hi8 camcorder 2000 CCD digicam 2010 Early smartphone 2020 Computational Colour is not a slider here. It arrives when it arrived, and the press holds on to black and white well into the seventies. MOTION HAS A DATE TOO A still can carry the grain. Only movement can…