Jul - 16th
Hawaii via toy camera
Posted at 7:15 pm | Filed Under film
May - 18th
Building with Flare
Posted at 5:59 pm | Filed Under art, film
Another city shot taken with my Jazz 207 Jelly camera. It’s rapidly becoming my favorite toy camera. Again. And, my original Jazz post is now #3 on Google searches for “Jazz Jelly”!
May - 12th
Four Five Two, Jazz Jelly 207
Posted at 6:05 pm | Filed Under film, journal
Shot with a Jazz Jelly 207, fairly high-tech as plastic cameras go. Integral lens cover, built-in flash, small enough to fit in your pocket. Classic plastic wide-angle lensed-goodness, fixed shutter speed. Shoot ISO 200 speed film outdoors. Flash is good for 10 feet if you’re lucky (and shooting ISO 400 speed film). This roll came […]
Mar - 30th
ZANINE
Posted at 6:15 pm | Filed Under art, film
Mar - 29th
Fire-Water (Happy Accident)
Posted at 6:39 pm | Filed Under art, film
Here’s a happy accident -� I loaded a roll of 36 exposure film. I then (a) thought I was done after exposure 24, and (b) opened the camera back while forgetting to rewind the film first, exposing the film.
Mar - 20th
Act Like Ya Know
Posted at 8:00 am | Filed Under art, film, journal
Another WTF moment walking around San Francisco. Sutro Tower, Magnum, the Bay bridge and Abe Lincoln FTW!
Mar - 18th
Signpost
Posted at 7:00 pm | Filed Under art, film
Recently, I’ve been shot most of my street candids portrait-style. I don’t know where this is coming from, maybe I should buy a square-frame medium format camera to cure myself of this? Or am I just looking for an excuse to buy a Holga, Diana or a Lubitel? Does anyone have a favorite, obscure medium […]
Mar - 4th
Aiptek Pencam SD — Digital Holga, or a better Digital Harinezumi?
Posted at 6:32 pm | Filed Under art, film, pencam
I took this picture with a Aiptek Pencam SD, a camera I liken to the Digital Harinezumi. The Pencam SD is roughly the same size, and does 1280×960 max resolution (still), and 6-8 frames per second at 640×480. Like the Digital Harinezumi, the Pencam SD has 64MB of built-in memory and an SD card […]
Nov - 25th
Fun with a Vivitar PN2011 “panoramic” camera
Posted at 5:41 pm | Filed Under art, film
I went out shooting with a Vivitar PN2011, a 35mm panoramic plastic camera. This is probably my favorite plastic camera to date, but I don’t know why. I think it’s big enough, the lens is wide enough, it feels sturdy enough and it’s got a lens cover to protect that $1.00 piece of plastic. They’re […]
Nov - 19th
Leaf a la Jazz
Posted at 7:26 pm | Filed Under art, film
Chromatic aberration? Pincushin distortion? Vignetting? Must be a Jazz Jelly! Shot with generic 200 ISO $.99 store film.
Nov - 16th
Bell and Howell, more Plastic Camera fun.
Posted at 12:33 pm | Filed Under art, film
More plastic fun with a Bell and Howell $1.99 junk store camera.
Aug - 18th
LOMO’s New Mystery Camera
Posted at 12:45 pm | Filed Under film, lomo
@lomography has been all (ahem…) atwitter about a mystery camera announcement this week. The folks at Tongue in Chic seem to have blown the lid off of the announcement of the Diana Mini, a half-frame/full-frame 35mm version of the cult classic Diana plastic camera.
Apr - 26th
Plastic Camera Redux
Posted at 9:14 am | Filed Under art, film
I found a roll of old photos from my TIME Camera and tried cleaning up some of the spots and lines from processing in Photoshop.
Apr - 24th
My new plastic favorite, the Vivitar IC 100
Posted at 6:50 pm | Filed Under art, film
The Vivitar IC 100 is rapidly turning into one of my favorite toy cameras. I broke from my usual “100 speed film only rule” and shot this roll on Fuji Superia 400. With the fixed 1/85th second shutter and f/5.6 aperture, I can use all the light sensitivity I can get!
Apr - 23rd
Refreshing
Posted at 10:00 pm | Filed Under art, film
This pic came off the first test roll from my Vivitar IC 100, a $1 plastic camera I picked up recently. It’s pretty standard looking. The insides could come from a LOMO Colorsplash or any number of unremarkable cameras. A simple lens, shutter speed and aperture fixed at 1/100th sec and f/5.6, and cheap enough […]
Apr - 16th
Big Brother
Posted at 6:10 pm | Filed Under art, film
Nov - 3rd
More San Miguel de Allende / Guanajuato photos
Posted at 3:03 pm | Filed Under uncategorized
Untweaked, fresh out of my Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim.
Oct - 16th
Meikai El test shots, as promised!
Posted at 5:58 pm | Filed Under film
Oct - 10th
Another toy camera – Meikai EL
Posted at 8:12 am | Filed Under film
This is a Meikai EL, circa 1963. Bought on eBay, I was the only bidder! As toy cameras go, this one feels pretty solid. The body is metal and plastic and the leatherette makes it feel like a “real” camera. The film advance is smooth, and there’s an indicator to let you know when the […]
Oct - 2nd
Plastic Cameras
Posted at 11:14 am | Filed Under film
I love my TIME camera – it’s a Holga/Diana with the chromatic aberrations and vignetting, but without the cost of medium format film and development…
keep looking »
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