Disposable Cameras Archives

5 August, 2022

Kodak Ektar H35 Review – Cheap Thrills with a Very Simple Camera – By Eric L. Woods

By Eric

Full disclosure: The Kodak Ektar H35 is right up my alley. Why? I like inexpensive, minimalist, rudimentary cameras. This usually consists of older, low level gear like your odd...

7 January, 2021

Toronto with an Orphan Camera – By Brian Nicholls

By MrSnappy

It was the end of our Christmas 2008 holiday in Canada. My wife and I along with our son and his family – a party of six had spent the time with our other son and his extended C...

17 September, 2020

Disposable Camera Holiday Snaps – Moments of Truth (Part Two) – By Brian Nicholls

By MrSnappy

Why would someone with a brace of half decent cameras even consider buying a disposable camera? I pondered over this question as I emerged from a photographic shop in the city ...

11 August, 2020

Disposable Camera Holiday Snaps – Moments of Truth (Part One) – By Brian Nicholls

By MrSnappy

We’ve all got George Eastman and his Brownie cameras to thank for creating the tool for vernacular photography. That simple principle of combining a single element, fixed focus ...

10 June, 2018

Solarcan Review – Solography; it does exactly what it says on the tin!

By Hamish Gill

Solography is a photographic technique that allows for extremely long exposures that trace the path of the sun in the sky over the course of months, or even a whole year. A Sol...

28 August, 2017

Disposable Cameras Review – Cheap, Fun, and Dependable – by Rick Davy

By rd

More recently I've started to come across disposable cameras whilst searching the car boats and charity shops of the world for film related stuff. The more I found and bought, t...

29 May, 2017

Disposable cameras – Reflections on my early use – by Tobias Eriksson

By Flashknappen

Taking a good or great picture with a single use is really all about composition. Other parameters, like light or contrasts, are in the hands of the lab. Motion blur is often in...

15 April, 2017

Konica WaiWai – The disposable camera experience

By Hamish Gill

A few months ago now I paid a fair few quid for a used and reloaded disposable camera. "Why?" You might ask? Well the answer is also 'Wai', or more accurately 'WaiWai'... (sorry...

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Geoff Chaplin on Meet Me Mum – One-Shot Story
As always an enjoyable, interesting, challenging and somewhat scary read. Now what is your scientific explanation for these experiences?
David Smith on Capturing the War of 1812 on Film – Reenactment of the Battle of Longwoods
Haha...thanks for sharing that, Jeffery! The cannons were pretty loud at this battle as well. Cheers ~david
David Smith on Capturing the War of 1812 on Film – Reenactment of the Battle of Longwoods
Thanks, Geoff! Although Great Britan/Canada ultimately won the war, the Americans did win the Battle of Longwoods. Cheers ~david

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