Wednesday, September 30, 2009

How it all started...

It was one fine afternoon in September 2009, when I came upon an old-fashioned bookshop selling sweet little plastic Ikimono 110 camera keychains that can easily fit in your palm or pocket. It's the tiniest and cutest, inexpensive film camera that I've ever encountered! I fell in love with it at first sight... though it wasn't my first toy camera and it was never part of my camera collection, the reason being that 110 film is so hard to find and even harder to get it developed. Nevertheless, it triggered my neverending interest and curiosity to research into the world of lomography and toy cameras!

There are so many fun toy cameras out there, and trying to figure out which one to get for a lomo-beginner can be quite confusing. Eventually, I considered starting with a 35mm film camera. Why? Coz 35mm films are relatively cheaper in cost and processing, and they're easier to find and get processed. The Holga 135BC (Snow) became the first toy camera for my latest hobby, simply coz it's easy to use, low in cost, easily available, and most importantly I love the corner vignetting it was created to produce!