A while ago now,
Suzi came round with this little guy. I took him out for a test run with some B&W film in him, and it was weird. I thought that I was just so used to shooting on an SLR that maybe my little fingers had crept up in front of the lens, you know like when your Gran is taking photographs? So I put some colour film through it, and this is how it came out.
That is not my fingers! Light leaks I guess, despite the camera being covered in tape to prevent this, I think I worked out that the light is leaking in where the winder is, which is impossible to tape up.
The overlapping frames I was expecting - this camera is supposed to take 127, which clearly I did not use. Its impossible to know how many times to wind the film on to get to the next frame, so I was winging it.
It has been fun trying this out, and extremely novel to have a camera that doesn't weigh the same as a baby elephant in my bag, but I don't think "toy cameras" are for me? I don't like that you can't frame the photograph properly - the viewfinder thing is weird - to me it all feels a bit like it comes down to luck. The whole Lomography "shoot from the hip" concept is lost on me. I like to know what I've taken photographs of, and how I expect them to come out. I'm old school I guess.
That said, I really don't hate these photographs at all, and it was really fun to try something new!
*disclaimer - I do respect and enjoy the work of a lot of people who do take beautiful photographs using this method of shooting, it is just not for me. So don't freak out.
