Old cameras with plastic lenses are great. Everyone loves them because it makes everything look like it’s from the 70s, or a family photo from a Russia, but I suppose the problem is that you have to pay for film and then take them to the camera shop to get them developed.
WORDS: ROBERT FOSTER
This is the same with Super 8, which is amazing to look at but a massive fucker to get developed, and you also need to have a projector and blah blah.
I read this blog quite a lot, it’s all about those sort of cameras, and it recently had a review of the solution to all my/your film processing problems - the Digital Harinezumi camera. This is a palm sized digital camera with a plastic lens, and a special chip that makes everything look like my uncle’s 1971 Christmas photos or a 60’s astronaut’s family film from all those documentaries. There’s loads of examples of photos and video from it on Flickr and YouTube, I’ve been trawling them all weekend, getting a photography boner off them.
I really, really want one.
(I promise this isn’t a proper plug, no money or gifts have exchanged hands, Maybe you could call this a preemptive plug, because I’d love it if someone sent me one?)
digital harinezumi - motomachi from nick dangerfield on Vimeo.
