Poll: do you own a Holga or other similar toy camera? I have been playing around with an old Box brownie, an Argus 75 and a Lomo. Light leaks, vignetting etc - sure (the Lomo though has a decent glass lens) but you still end up with some interesting shots!
My latest is a Brownie Reflex 127 format
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
I was bought a toy 35mm camera with a "color lens" by a friend of mine as a joke gift for my birthday last august
I've got too many toys. Grin.
I bought a holga to prove to someone I could make a very typical stylised photo.. as normally seen from them.
Then I cut it into pieces. Then bought a good camera that with bad exposure, a cardboard vignette and some tender loving general misuse creates the same effect if required.
I got a few - two Diana's (Holga's grandmother so to speak), the standard Kokak cardboard box Brownie, a Lubitel 166 TLR, and I am pretty sure there are some more floating around which I just have forgotten right now.
Have a Holga, but prefer my Diana camera, makes beautiful pictures.
Jon
Last edited by Jon Shiu; 1-Jul-2007 at 21:08. Reason: to add examples
my black and white photos of the Mendocino Coast: jonshiu.zenfolio.com
I don't mess with these things- life is too short for toy cameras!
Brian Vuillemenot
They're ALL toy cameras!
"I love my Verito lens, but I always have to sharpen everything in Photoshop..."
If you cut up a Guinness can you have black aluminum in which you can make a pinhole. Mount it on a lensboard and stick it on your Linhof. You get an optic, and you get to drink the Guinness.
Life could be worse.
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