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offline chambre noire from Iceland on 2005-05-28 02:04 [#01614649]
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anyone into toycam photography here on xltronic?

just recently bought a holga 120cfn, here are my first pictures


 

offline -crazone from smashing acid over and over on 2005-05-28 02:09 [#01614652]
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no but what's a toycam? i like some of the pics btw


 

offline mimi on 2005-05-28 02:13 [#01614655]
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i really like the first photos; they are great

wtf is a toycam?


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2005-05-28 02:21 [#01614660]
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if im not mistaken, a toycam is a kind of camera that
somehow gets pictures whose point of focus is much more
similar to our own eye's. a friend of mine from back love is
a photographer and he loves his toycam.

those r some nice pics you got theres. i especially like the
sky in the second one. lets see more!


 

offline Exaph from United Kingdom on 2005-05-28 02:31 [#01614664]
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the quality is quite good but whats wrong with a normal film
slr?


 

offline staz on 2005-05-28 02:32 [#01614665]
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These are great pictures.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-05-28 02:40 [#01614666]
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nice pics man, but some of them are too dark!


 

offline denniscpearce from Canada on 2005-05-28 02:41 [#01614667]
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toycam = a toy camera
you silly people.
the holga is a cheap (well it should be) plastica camera
that takes 120 film and has a plastic lens.
there are also the diana and the ever so hip lomo.
honestly i dont know about this stuff, film for the holga is
expensive to buy and develop/process, unless you are doing
all your own darkrooming, but even then 120 film is more
expensive.
i do have a smena 8m, which is arguably a toy camera,
although it performs very well and i have practically
rebuilt its crumbling plastic components entirely with
epoxy, which was possible because of its simplicity. and its
lens is really sharp and it takes normal 35


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2005-05-28 02:41 [#01614668]
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o hey, theyre an arrow when i scroll over! even more. these
ARE preeeetttyyy.


 

offline denniscpearce from Canada on 2005-05-28 02:43 [#01614669]
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if im not mistaken, a toycam is a kind of camera that
somehow gets pictures whose point of focus is much more
similar to our own eye's. a friend of mine from back love
is
a photographer and he loves his toycam.


are you just making things up?
theres no such thing as A "toycam"

its just cheap toy cameras in general.


 

offline denniscpearce from Canada on 2005-05-28 02:46 [#01614671]
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holga


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offline denniscpearce from Canada on 2005-05-28 02:46 [#01614672]
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diana


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offline denniscpearce from Canada on 2005-05-28 02:48 [#01614673]
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lomo (lamest one because the price of them has become
heavily inflated due to hipster creeps : marketing


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offline denniscpearce from Canada on 2005-05-28 02:52 [#01614674]
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my smena

it is cheaply made but it is really just a zone focusing,
lightmeterless small rangefinder.
i have a lot of rangefinders,
my newest one is an olympus 35rc which is really really
nice.
but i also have a few canonets, a yashica 35mc, and a few
other ones which i never use at all.

i have a proper olympus slr worth more then all my
rangefinders combined (well counting lenses), but i
honestly use the rangefinders more because they are smaller
and lighter and therefor it is more likely that i will have
one of them in my bag then my slr.


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offline chambre noire from Iceland on 2005-05-28 02:56 [#01614676]
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thanks all!

yes, it's a general term for crappy built cameras made
entirely in plastic. they shoot 120-film (12 pictures per
roll, 6x6cm negatives)

i had a lomo smena 8m too until a couple of days ago, i sold
it to some girl for $70 !!! bought it for $7 ... :P
never tried it though, seen some pictures taken with it but
was not that impressed.

i am waiting for an original Diana to arrive from Germany..
the Diana is supposed to deliver even more uneven pics!


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2005-05-28 02:58 [#01614678]
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no, i wasnt making things up. from what he told me, the
blurry softness of the toy cameras are what people like them
for. and btw that first 'love' is supposed to be 'home'.
whoops.


 

offline denniscpearce from Canada on 2005-05-28 03:09 [#01614684]
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chambre noire:
-the photos are nice,
-you sold an 8m for 70! that is crazy! lucky you i guess.
-the 8m doesnt shoot photos as 'interesting' as a
holga/diana/lomo/etc but it is a very compentent camera
these were all taken with it:
1, 2, 3,
4

although one friend once saw the camera and declared it as
the crappiest camera on earth.
ps, you might like these photos . no crazy camera or
anything though.


 

offline chambre noire from Iceland on 2005-05-28 03:15 [#01614688]
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the smena pics were nice, but i'm pretty glad i sold it..
lovely quadra photos! i think my favourite was
quadra_tree_c.jpg
i'd really like a lomo lc-a but they are going for $100-180
on ebay.. crap!


 

offline denniscpearce from Canada on 2005-05-28 03:16 [#01614689]
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why do you want an lc-a?!

seriously i wouldnt buy one for 10 dollars.


 

offline chambre noire from Iceland on 2005-05-28 03:20 [#01614690]
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it takes 35mm ! i have to scan the 120-films at my brothers
work which is a pain for both me and him... 35mm i could
make prints of and then scan here at home.. but ofcourse,
would never pay more than like $50 for a lc-a...

some other pics taken with my sony dsc w1


 

offline denniscpearce from Canada on 2005-05-28 03:29 [#01614693]
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yeah but you know if you want to be a true lomo trendster
you have to buy the lomography film. haha.

yeah 35 is where its at.
i just bought 100 rolls of 100 speed for 30 dollars.
and i get it developed for 2 dollars.
and i recently got a film scanner so im in the process of
going back and scanning everything i had previously scanned
from prints. there is SUCH a huge difference, much more then
i expected.

i liked the your other photos, especially the new york one.
and these are sort of similar : yours and
mine


 

offline chambre noire from Iceland on 2005-05-28 03:47 [#01614703]
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thanks.

haha! very cool .. two giants in nature.

lomography.com are such a rip-off! they are a joke really..
are people so lame that they buy their over-priced stuff?
hmm.

nice prices..
i'm thinking of buying an epson 3170 scanner.. but it only
takes one 6x6cm neg at a time...


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-05-28 10:32 [#01614839]
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these photos are fantastic!

i've got to start with one of these cameras. what would you
guys (dennis and chambre) recommend? cheapest stuff?


 

offline chambre noire from Iceland on 2005-05-28 10:45 [#01614850]
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thanks r40f!

try to get a Diana (or a clone), or a Holga 120
do not pay more than $30-40..
Holgamod's has the basic model for $24.95 + shipping..


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-05-28 11:18 [#01614865]
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thanks for the info!


 

offline hanal from k_maty only (United Kingdom) on 2005-05-28 11:21 [#01614867]
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these photos are wicked,phobia allso takes top photos.i
myself am shit:(


 

offline linus from Norway on 2005-05-28 12:12 [#01614902]
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i have one of those overpriced lomography cameras, called
colorsplash. it looked really cheesy and cheap, so i just
went over to the counter and got so confused when i heard
the price that i paid anyway. i've used it about two times.
crap!


 

offline chambre noire from Iceland on 2005-05-28 13:16 [#01614926]
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sell it ! lomo cams are hot right now.. i won't buy it
though :) try blocket.se or tradera.com, even ebay.com/.se
?!


 

offline chambre noire from Iceland on 2005-06-19 18:18 [#01638303]
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a new picture


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offline dan7250 from Osaka (Japan) on 2005-06-19 19:12 [#01638332]
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I got a holga about a year ago. It can be pretty cool, but
only for daytime pics.

Lomo works well at night though...


 

offline manicminer from Paris (France) on 2005-06-20 03:44 [#01638413]
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That picture is great.

Send it to these guys: PBAS

It's the kind of thing they use on their album artwork.....


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2005-07-28 11:37 [#01677649]
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I want a cheap camera and maybe a film scanner? I have a
scanner, but is it better to get a specialized scanner for
film or something? And can you adjust the exposure time
easily on these toycameras?


 

offline mimi on 2005-07-28 11:40 [#01677650]
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you can get a holga for like $35 on freestylephoto.biz,
which seems like a reasonable price comparatively


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2005-07-28 11:44 [#01677654]
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Where do you get film (it takes some weird kind?) and can
you just get the negatives developed for you at any place
that develops normal film, then scan them?


 

offline mimi on 2005-07-28 12:03 [#01677672]
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LAZY_HOLGA here, towards the bottom of the page is a
link to a pdf of the holga manual, it should answer most of
your questions. im sure you can get film at any photo
supply store, i've never had anything developed other than
35mm at walgreens so i dont know if you can do it there or
whatever, but lots of photo stores develop too and i'm sure
they can do whatever format. and then you can scan them.
but you probably need a film scanner unless you have a
really nice scanner to begin with, mine can't really do
negatives.


 

offline aquagak from Berlin (Germany) on 2005-07-28 12:52 [#01677720]
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Hey mimi, this is how you scan negatives with a flat bed
http://www.afn.org/~afn11300/slides.html
or
http://home.sci.fi/~animato/scanning/scanning2.html
I've tried it a few times with amazingly crappy results


 

offline mimi on 2005-07-28 15:48 [#01677899]
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i might give that a shot sometime. my attempts so far have
been fruitless really, my scanner is garbage in the first
place (one of those "all-in-one" printer/scanner/copier
deals), but i hadn't tried using a flashlight.

i have a digital slr anyway though so i might not even go to
the trouble of scanning my old negs since there aren't that
many of them anyway.


 

offline mimi on 2005-07-28 15:49 [#01677905]
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ps. thank you either way


 

offline b6662966 from ? on 2005-07-28 16:12 [#01677929]
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I bought a holga 120S a few years ago and ended up modifying
it. I flocked the interior, created an actual second
aperture, added an S stop shutter, added cable release
threading, cut out the 6x4.5 mask to 6x6, machined a film
spool tensioner, a film back and attatched a 46mm filter
ring to the lense. I was lucky that my particular camera had
a very good lense, good in the sense that it had alot of
distortions! Anyways after about 25 rolls and a lot of fun
i eventually got bored of the vignetting and sold it on ebay
for a surprising $60 auction price. I still own an original
Diana and one Diana clone which i will never sell! They are
very pricey now but the photos they take are absolutely
dream like. I actually just recently modified my diana clone
with flocking and fitting a filter ring to the lense.


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2005-07-29 00:37 [#01678112]
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I'm reading the pdf manual but I don't understand any of
these photography terms.


 

offline chambre noire from Iceland on 2005-07-29 01:17 [#01678117]
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i recently bought a Canon Canoscan 8400F for about
$240 (1840 sek), which can scan up to four 120-frames at a
time.. i'm very pleased with it, though the anti dust thing
could be better!

here are some recent pictures i took on my trip to
shanghai and hongkong!


 

offline chambre noire from Iceland on 2005-07-29 01:22 [#01678118]
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a picture


 

offline chambre noire from Iceland on 2005-07-29 01:22 [#01678119]
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.


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2005-07-29 02:05 [#01678132]
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Awesome, great as always. Can you do low light,
long-exposure pictures easily with holgas?


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2005-07-29 02:07 [#01678133]
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shanghai_streets_4.jpg

Favorite! Wow!


 

offline chambre noire from Iceland on 2005-07-29 03:39 [#01678172]
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thanks man!

yeah, there's a B-setting (under the camera), so you can
make how ever long exposures you like. have to be real
steady on the hand though so the picture doesn't get blurry.


 

offline chambre noire from Iceland on 2005-07-29 03:42 [#01678176]
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trying to attach pictures but it doesn't seem to work!?


 

offline chambre noire from Iceland on 2005-08-09 16:48 [#01689711]
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most recent roll
[some pics from hongkong + countryside here in sweden]


 

offline cie jiks mawp from motion to descend (Australia) on 2005-08-09 17:48 [#01689740]
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damn that holga looks sexy

chambre your "new picture" is excellent. dark grimy and the
figures look like spectral grandparents just floating in a
doorway



 

offline dan7250 from Osaka (Japan) on 2005-08-09 18:58 [#01689754]
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chambre noire your pics are great. I was in HK through july
as well. wish i was back there.


 


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