Back when I was your age…

May 17, 2008...12:11 am

Back when I was your age…

I used cameras that needed physical film.

And then get this, I could only take 24 or 36 number of photos. And I had no idea what they looked like I had to walk to a store and give them my roll of film and wait a couple hours until I get to even see what they looked like. Doesn’t this sound so crazy right now?!

But even the shiniest and most expensive digital camera will not make me as happy as I was with my childhood Ninja Turtle toy camera. It had a green plastic body, and on the bottom right corner of the shutter was a little clear plastic sheet with Michaelangelo waving– so every photo taken had Mikey at the bottom, hanging ten. Or whatever he does.

Now’s that’s fucking awesome. That is happiness right there.

But I’m recently finding that sense of wonder with Lomo film cameras. Currently, I have the Fisheye2 and the ActionSampler. The Fisheye 2 is just a cheap camera with a cool fisheye built in. The ActionSampler is also pretty goddamn cheap and gimmicky. It has 4 lenses so with one shot, you get four images sitting in 4 quadrants of one print.