Tokyo has no shortage of fancy, modern delis, and the city’s numerous department stores are packed with them too. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t any room for their older, more traditional cousins, because there is — at least for now, anyway.
Wonderfully dated shops that offer the same weighed out portions, except there isn’t a digital scale in sight. No digital anything in fact.
Ben says
Analog has this aesthetic aura of life and movement to it that digital doesn’t. Mechanical watches, vacuum tubes, turntables, old engines, the whole lot of them.
Lee says
That’s very true. As much as I enjoy technology, there’s a whole host of analogue I’d hate to see disappear.
john says
I think he can see a digital something by his expression!
Lee says
Haha, maybe!
Hans ter Horst says
Excellent shot, excellent place to go!
As for analogue versus digital, I’ve always been an early adopter or gadgets, mobile phones, CDs, DVDs and DSLRs, I’m a software engineer, it sort of comes with the job.
I went back to vinyl records years ago and only read emails a couple of times a day (I pity now the people with who cannot leave their smart phone alone, I was one of them but I overcame the addiction :-)).
As for photography, when shooting with my DSLR, I came back with tons of photos, none of them any good. Blessed is the day I decided to take my old 35mm camera on a trip to Iceland as well: the difference between the SLR and the DSLR shots was eye-opening to me and I went back to film and haven’t looked back. Nothing to do with the quality of the cameras, just a mental problem that makes me take much more time to set up for a film shot than that I can make myself take to take a DSLR shot.
Lee says
Thanks!
Likewise, I do like my technology. Probably too much sometimes. As such I need to cut down my smartphone use. It’s usefulness isn’t to be questioned, but how often I unnecessarily use it, most certainly is.
I too went back to vinyl a few years ago, getting a lovely Technics turntable from 1972. Certainly beats digital. Camera-wise, however, I’m happy with my digital, but I do try and use it more like a film camera. I have the preview switched off, and only try and use the screen when I’m on my way home and done for the day. When a moment has gone, it has gone, so no point checking to see whether I got it or not. If I did, great, but if I didn’t, there’s nothing to be done about it anyway.