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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
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-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
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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?
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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!
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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?
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staz
on 2005-05-28 02:32 [#01614665]
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These are great pictures.
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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!
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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
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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.
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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.
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denniscpearce
from Canada on 2005-05-28 02:46 [#01614671]
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from Canada on 2005-05-28 02:46 [#01614672]
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diana
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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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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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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!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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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
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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...
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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?
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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..
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r40f
from qrters tea party on 2005-05-28 11:18 [#01614865]
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thanks for the info!
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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:(
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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!
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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 ?!
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chambre noire
from Iceland on 2005-06-19 18:18 [#01638303]
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a new picture
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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...
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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.....
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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?
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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
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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?
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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.
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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
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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.
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mimi
on 2005-07-28 15:49 [#01677905]
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ps. thank you either way
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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.
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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.
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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!
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chambre noire
from Iceland on 2005-07-29 01:22 [#01678118]
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a picture
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chambre noire
from Iceland on 2005-07-29 01:22 [#01678119]
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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?
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mappatazee
from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2005-07-29 02:07 [#01678133]
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shanghai_streets_4.jpg
Favorite! Wow!
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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.
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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!?
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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]
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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
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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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