I haven’t seen a PINTO on the street in YEARS!

In the background, my 2010 LOMO LC-A+. In front, my 1993 LOMO LC-A. Back in 2001, I found the LOMO.ORG web site (now defunct) and started experimenting with toy cameras. I bought the 1993 LOMO that year and shot close to a hundred rolls through it. After sitting unused for a year or so, i swapped the batteries out and found that the shutter no longer worked. I did some of the tricks in the LOMO FAQ (replaced the batteries, sprung the battery clips, and smack it smartly against a carpeted floor) and it works again!

Technically, the 2001 LC-A+ is a better camera – it features a multiple exposure setting, smoother shutter release, supports ISO 800 film, has a film window on the back and the fit is better. But, the ’93 is what I started out with, and it just feels right. The weird LOMO smell (my theory? vegetable-based lubricants, they smell like beets when they come out of the box) is gone, and I’ve had to patch the film rewind spool with a bit of wire, but it’s like an extension of my hand.

I’ve got a roll of Kodak 200 in there, and another 40 or so rolls that have been chillin’ in my freezer. it’s time to go back to film.

This cardboard digital camera by IKEA was given away last week to members of the press during the 2012 Fuorisalone, a design expo in Milan. According to IT Gizmodo, the camera can hold up to 40 photos on internal memory, has a USB connector, and will soon be in IKEA stores.

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photo via Naonori Kuwata

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First. I liked the colors. Canon Elph 100 HS.

The Canon Elph 100 HS has some interesting features – a self timer that fires when a new face arrives in the viewfinder, or fires when someone winks, a 3 MP high-speed mode that outpaces my big DSLR, and a toy camera mode that vignettes and saturates the image.

They’re snappy, but who wants to wait for film processing? You want old-school style and immediate gratification.

If wishing makes it so, then say good day to the iPhone Rangefinder!

This crafty little guy isn’t just an iPhone case that looks like a rangefinder. It’s actually a functional system, complete with a viewfinder, shutter button, tripod mount and more.

Plus, it works with the all of the Magnetic Cell Lenses for maximum camera realism! We’re pretty sure Bresson would trade all of his decisive moments for an iPhone that looked like this.

The iPhone Rangefinder
$65 for the Case
$99 for the Case with Magnetic Lenses

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It’s amazing what great lighting can do to make a picture *pop* out at you. iPhone 4, no special processing.

With the popularity of digital photography growing by leaps and bounds over the last decade, some say film has been dying a slow death ever since–or is already dead. The reality is that film has never gone away, and in recent years has experienced a surging, renewed popularity–sometimes simply for its retro, analog status, but mostly for film’s ability to create a look and feel that many believe digital can still not achieve. If anyone can attest to this, it’s Utah photographer Jonathan Canlas, who exclusively shoots with film, and has both an extremely successful wedding photography business as well as a series of popular workshops held numerous times per year around the world.

In Film Is Not Dead: A Digital Photographer’s Guide to Shooting Film (Voices That Matter), Canlas teams up with co-author Kristen Kalp to open the doors for anyone who wants to begin–or return to–shooting film. Casual, irreverent, fun, inspiring, and beautiful, this unique 10×8 hardcover book teaches the reader the basics of film, cameras, and shooting in this medium. Whether it’s discussing the different tone and color characteristics of different films (Kodak, Fuji, etc.), how to load a medium-format camera back, how to create proper exposures, how and where to get film processed, or how Jonathan uses fun, plastic cameras like the Holga in his commercial and personal work, Film Is Not Dead appeals to anyone who is searching to finally begin creating that film look, but until now hasn’t known where to start.

Reason # 3

Because film has a very different look from digital. Plastic cameras quite happily fill the needs of people who don’t want their pictures to look like everybody else’s. Think about it—when you go on social media and see the digital photos posted up there, don’t they have more or less the same look about them? There’s a reason for this: these cameras are specifically designed to deliver the same type of image. Sure, the colors might be a bit different here and there, but they still look basically the same. On the other hand, most film has a very warm, retro ambiance when used inside a plastic camera, far removed from that of digital. On a similar issue, black & white film frankly leaves digital B&W in the dust. There’s simply no comparison, and black & white film lends itself extremely well to plastic cameras. Now, there are some who ask, can’t you just recreate all those visual aspects with Photoshop over a digital image? Well, yes you could…but unless you’re a total computer techie who loves that kind of stuff, why would you want to spend all that time doing that? It makes much more sense to simply create the same thing in three seconds with the click of a shutter, doesn’t it?