In case you couldn't tell, I love photography. Most people who know me understand my obsession with nice graphics; photography is a way to instantly gratify it. However, I rarely take photographs to document some occasion (my wedding photos are stuffed in a drawer somewhere; I barely care that I have them). So, I love
the Lomographic Society. They manufacture and promote
"toy" cameras, i.e. cheaply made plastic cameras whose poor-quality photographs enhance their graphic nature: the results are
oddly exposed or
multi-lensed or
artificially colored, etc. I own a yellow
SuperSampler, which I love. But I've grown used to the cheap, instantaneous, disposable nature of digital photographs (who needs to pay and wait for film and processing when you can pay upfront for a digital memory card? And it doesn't help that there is
a cheap, archival-quality processing service available online for digital photos) so it's become harder and harder for me to love traditional film cameras, although I'm entirely in love with the toy camera photographs.
But maybe there's some middle ground. Last week I was admiring the
Lomo Fisheye camera, but I gave up on it because I'm not willing to shell out the cash knowing the burden I'd have to bear buying film and wasting some of it on bad photos. I also recently upgraded my digital camera (I love
my old digicam, but it has a low megapixel rating, which means the photos I take are necessarily small. It's physically big and bulky, too, so you can't really toss the camera in a pocket and bring it everywhere in the way you can
the new elph). And then it dawned on me: my old digicam had a nice enough lens that it might just be interchangable, which means I could use it as a toy camera free from needing film. It turns out that, with a just a lens converter ring, I can attach
a cheap fisheye lens and convert my nice digicam to a fisheye. So I guess don't be surprised if you see some fisheyes appearing over the next couple of months... Yippee!
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