This Skate Video Was Shot Through the Viewfinder of a Mamiya RB67

Here’s a 3-minute skate video that has an usual perspective: it was shot through the waist-level viewfinder of a Mamiya RB67 medium format SLR camera.

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Titled “Through the Looking Glass,” the short film was created by photographer Christian Rosillo for Loaded Boards using a custom-built rig that kept a video camera pointed down at his Mamiya. While filming the video of Adam Stokowski riding a Bhangra longboard, Rosillo also snapped still photos on Kodak Portra 400 film.

A Mamiya RB67 Professional S camera. Photo by 55Laney69.
A Mamiya RB67 Professional S camera. Photo by 55Laney69.

The concept of this project is similar to what we saw in the video Paris Through Pentax, which went viral back in August 2014.

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