Day 8 – Crappy Camera, Crappy Photo

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08/01/10 – This is a really crappy picture. Why is it so crappy? Because I wanted it to be crappy and therefore I made it crappy in Photoshop, not that it was exactly a stellar setup to begin with. Doesn’t it make you recall days as a kid (in the 60’s and 70’s) when cameras were crappy and photos were blurred and colours were totally off? Well, the cameras that we had when we were younger, if you had lots of money and/or were a pro they probably looked better than this.

My little Minox didn’t work out and I returned it yesterday because there was something wrong with the shutter display, very sad about that, but looking at an Olympus XA from 1979 now.

So I am back to my crappy little plastic Holga which I hope to take an interesting picture with someday…I’m only on roll three of using it, so I still need to work at it a bit. I love this stupid thing though. It is cheap plastic and if you aren’t careful, the back falls off and all your film is ruined because it isn’t like 35mm which is safe inside the spool (the unexposed part anyway). There isn’t really even any point in looking through the viewfinder since it doesn’t really represent what you are seeing accurately. There are more or less no exposure controls, no control of shutter speed, just a switch that has a sun on one side and some clouds (I think that’s what they are) on the other. And you can set it for close, not so close, a little farther away, and way out there, sort of…but who knows what you end up with?

Whenever I pull this thing out it just makes me smile and laugh because I can just imagine what people are thinking…..