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CAMERA – NOVELTY SPLITCAM $5.31 Imagine your boss with the head of a donkey, or your sister’s legs on your brother’s body. With the amazing Split-Cam, you can morph two photos together into all kinds of crazy combinations. Just use the crosshairs in the viewfinder and the lens-blocking sliders to line up two pictures that you want to be combined onto one print. You can even use it vertically to create the illusion of identical t… |
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Superheadz Kuro Digi VistaQuest VQ2005 Keychain Digital Camera $42.95 The Kurodigi is designed in an exquisite rubberised matt black body. The Kuro Digi produces nostalgic and mellow artistic images and videos. Package includes: 1. One(1) nico digi digital camera |
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New Lomo Stereo 2 lens 2 Action 135 Film Camera toy (two two star) This is the ultimate gadget toy cameras. Seems it works as any common sequencial camera. This toy camera builders are making tribute to Monseigneur Disderi, at least for the name, one of the multiple shoot camera fathers. package Including – Original box, Camera, Strap, English User Manual… |
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Holga 144120 120N Plastic Camera $24.99 The Holga 120N! Still retaining all of those fabulous and unique features that made the Holga 120S world famous, this model, the Holga 120N, takes Holga photography to the next level. Features include a standard tripod mount (1/4-20) and bulb selector for extra long exposures. Your film will now travel smoothly in either 6 x 4.5cm or 6 x 6cm formats with the two plastic masks, included. Also…no … |
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Lomography Diana F+ Medium Format Camera $34.95 The Diana F+ is a faithful reproduction and a loving homage to the classic Diana – with a few new features tossed in. Its plastic lens, 2 shutter settings (daylight & “B”), 3 aperture settings, and manual focus are all hallmarks of the original Diana. And on top of that, the Diana F+ offers a removable lens and super-small aperture for pinhole images, two image formats (12 or 16 square shots on a… |
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Lomographic Fisheye Number 2 Camera $49.00 The world’s greatest compact Fisheye camera is now more amazing than you ever thought possible! Not only does it have same 180-degree wide-angle view and stunning fisheye barrel distortion, but the Fisheye No. 2 adds a bulb setting for long exposures, a switch for multiple exposures on the same frame, the ability to fire both a hotshoe flash and the built-in flash, a true fisheye viewfinder, and a… |
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Playing LOMO and toy cameras (Chinese Edition) $22.99 LOMO means Let Our Life be Magic and Open. Strength, craziness, wonderfulness, unique, primality, excitment and sexuality is the everything of LOMO. Nothing is more direct than truly snap, letting the feeling to expressed naturally and less is more. Any kind of photo, regardless happy or sorrow, Lomography is pleasant to share with you. Fnd a place and lie down to enjoy! Or take up you Lomo camer… |
What is the attraction in holga/lomo/polaroid photography?
I see a lot of question here about buying Polaroid or Holga/Diana/Lomo cameras. Now back in the film days polaroid certainly filled a niche. What I just don’t get is why people spend money on a Holga or similar camera while for the same amount or less money you can also buy a used film camera, either a high-end compact or a decent SLR with lens.
So, can anyone explain to me why someone would buy a camera where there’s hardly any film for or why anyone would buy a camera that’s basically a poorly made toy?
I know what the cameras do, I’m just trying to understand the fascination with intentionally poor quality pictures.
Long story short, marketing. Long story-
It’s a “user friendly” approach to photography meant to ease people into buying expensive cameras. It sticks so well because it’s a “rebellion” from the established world of photography, which I would theorize is also responsible for kids referring to DSLRs as professional cameras. What happens is these cameras and the principals that the composite character values are idealized in popular media. Lady gaga and Beyonce taking Polaroids of eachother, Many Paramore videos, Jonas Brothers making behind the scenes videos and publishing their Polaroids all have the toy cameras. It’s all based on the mere exposure effect (no pun intended) .
When you are exposed to something enough it becomes normal. On the medical side, we use this for picky eating kids. Just put the vegetables on the plate and don’t expect them to eat it. After a while they think it’s perfectly fine. Put massive posters up telling people how great the dear leader is, after awhile they will believe it. Put the cameras in the music videos and soon they will become normal.
So now these kids love photography with their Holgas, Religion, politics and your identity as a teenager are the leading causes of anger. Now what? Now that you have people who identify themselves as photographers, they will soon turn 16-20-ish and identify themselves as adults. Toy cameras (not an accident it’s called that) don’t fit the schema of adult, so as a grown up photographer they need a big black professional camera.
It’s all about what products there are too sell. In the 80′s imaging came out which meant we knew the biological causes of disease which meant we could develop pills. By the 90′s the law changed to put pill commercials on TV because the pills were there and needed to be sold. Digital cameras are currently a new market that needs to be sold. Holgas are just a microcosm of the massive campaign to get these products sold. It is very literal when I say you’re life depends on cameras being sold. If we don’t make people buy crap they don’t need the economy goes down. Low enough and there are no hospitals, no schools, no government, no law. Marketing might seem evil and aggressive. But at the heart of it marketing is responsible for your way of life more than any government.
I got into the field when I finally got my head around all that. I wore tube socks (at 14) because Blink 182 did. I beat people up for making fun of my bands and I wondered why. When I did find out why I said I want to be a part of that. It’s an awakening, an almost religious experience (and just a plain old power high) to know and be responsible for everything in the world.
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