Disposable camera

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

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 Argus or Russian knockoffs. I had an Argus C3 and still have a C4. I currently have a few FEDs including a 2 and 5C and ZENITs E and KM, the latter being a hilariously awful camera and I heart it. But few new low cost film cameras interest me usually.

Toronto with an Orphan Camera – By Brian Nicholls

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 Canadian family at a large cottage on Canning Lake, Ontario. I had moved from film to digital having spent a meagre Christmas bonus on a Panasonic DMC-LC80S digital telephoto compact and a handful of memory cards.

Polaroid Disposable

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

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 of Mahon – the capital of Menorca – with a couple of colour films in the one hand and a Polaroid branded 35mm single use camera in the other. Around my neck was my regular holiday weapon of choice since 2012, a Canon G12 digital zoom compact. You couldn’t miss the shop with its traditional international retro red and yellow Kodak sign high above the door resplendent with dodgy wiring.

Bacardi Camera 1s-l1600 (13)

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

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 lens and a single speed shutter in a hand held box is still in evident today courtesy of the humble single use camera.

Camera snobs ”wouldn’t be seen dead with such rubbish” but, would they turn their collective noses up at one if they found themselves camera-less at an exotic holiday resort?

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