Author Topic: World Toy Camera Day October 18 (Read 5768 times)

astrobeck · « **on:** July 17, 2014, 09:36:28 PM »

Hi All!
Just posting in advance the date of World Toy Camera Day

October 18 is the date this year! Woo-hoo!

A lot of you participate, and some of you (Francois-hint-hint) even make posters for us to use and distribute so I'm just putting it out so you have plenty of time to plan and get ready.

Let's see some uber cool pix in 3 months!

With my dearest thanks!
Becky

Oh and before I forget, there's a World Toy Camera Day group on Facebook!

Francois · « **Reply #1 on:** August 15, 2014, 10:10:28 PM »

OK, Ladies and Gentlemen!
After a bit of arm twisting from Becky (Ok, she didn't have to twist that hard), I bring you this year's World Toy Camera Day poster.
I have the usual full resolution PDF and the low res jpg.

Enjoy

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1dmZoIlURfDRUQ5Rzl0NWdCZ1k/edit?usp=sharing

Bryan · « **Reply #2 on:** September 18, 2014, 05:13:12 PM »

I hope everyone has film loaded in their toy cameras. I've got my Brownie Hawkeye ready to go.

Kodak Brownie Hawkeye by bac1967, on Flickr

gsgary · « **Reply #3 on:** September 18, 2014, 06:45:58 PM »

I don't have a toy camera to use, but i will ask my friend

John Robison · « **Reply #4 on:** September 18, 2014, 07:53:49 PM »

To my shame I bought a Zeiss Box Tengor 4 years ago and have not put a roll through it yet. This sounds like a good excuse to load it up. What are the rules? Who do you submit entries to?

jojonas~ · « **Reply #5 on:** September 18, 2014, 08:22:03 PM »

I got an old Diana (type 151), as a splendid gift from a splendid friend, that I think I'll be using this year B-)

Francois · « **Reply #6 on:** September 18, 2014, 08:32:04 PM »

I still have an old Halina Viceroy in my cupboard that my mom's old aunt gave me maybe twenty years ago and that I've never tried!
I'm probably give it a try...

jharr · « **Reply #7 on:** September 18, 2014, 11:01:54 PM »

I think I'm with Bryan and will shoot my Hawkeye with a flipped lens. Especially since I want to try out my new FPP 620 spools! I think I will roll some Portra 160 and see how it goes.

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Bryan · « **Reply #8 on:** September 18, 2014, 11:35:26 PM »

I didn't flip my lens but I was able to load a 120 roll without re-spooling it. I'm still using a 620 spool for the take-up, I don't think a 120 spool will work in that position. It's a little tight when I advance the frames but it's not too bad. On some of the Hawkeye's there is a little metal tab on the flexible part that holds the spool on the left side of the camera. Since a 120 spool is a little wider than a 620 spool you may have to bend this tab, otherwise it won't let you close the back cover. Kodak did this on purpose when the found out people were just loading 120 film into the Hawkeye's. They wanted to sell more 620 film. Some of the earlier Hawkeye's didn't have the tab.

limr · « **Reply #9 on:** September 19, 2014, 01:55:00 AM »

Hmm... I have to decide between my Holga and Konstruktor. OR I can finally clean up a raggedy Hawkeye I found in a junk shop a few months ago. I've also got an Argoflex I could play with.

I've put the date into my calendar so I won't forget!

astrobeck · « **Reply #10 on:** September 19, 2014, 03:29:32 AM »

Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim for me with some old color.

Just dug it out of a drawer and tested it last week to make sure it works....
It's cool that so many Brownie flips are going out!

astrobeck · « **Reply #11 on:** September 22, 2014, 04:47:59 PM »

Quote from: Francois on August 15, 2014, 10:10:28 PM

OK, Ladies and Gentlemen!
After a bit of arm twisting from Becky (Ok, she didn't have to twist that hard), I bring you this year's World Toy Camera Day poster.
I have the usual full resolution PDF and the low res jpg.

Enjoy

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1dmZoIlURfDRUQ5Rzl0NWdCZ1k/edit?usp=sharing

Just bumping this up since it's 4 weeks away!

Francois · « **Reply #12 on:** September 22, 2014, 09:07:29 PM »

And you're encouraged to use your old 3D glasses to look at the poster

AJShepherd · « **Reply #13 on:** October 11, 2014, 04:24:40 PM »

Crikey! That's next week already...

Wondering if a Smena 8M counts as a toy camera. On the one hand it's plastic, but on the other hand the lens is pretty good and I was quite amazed how good the quality was for something that cheap and Soviet.

Francois · « **Reply #14 on:** October 11, 2014, 10:33:38 PM »

Well... because of its lens, I don't think it counts as a toy camera. But it sure does count for Red Camera Month which dedicates every October to former Soviet Union and Communist cameras.

https://www.flickr.com/groups/1060189@N22/

sgt.brimer · « **Reply #15 on:** October 11, 2014, 11:55:31 PM »

I'll load up the Lomo LC-A+ with some Lomo color film then!

ManuelL · « **Reply #16 on:** October 12, 2014, 02:46:48 PM »

Would love to participate in this.

I only got a Brownie Six-20. Does that qualify as toy camera? It is built like it will survive at least 3 generations to come. Otherwise I would get something from the internets.

02Pilot · « **Reply #17 on:** October 12, 2014, 03:11:54 PM »

Quote from: ManuelL on October 12, 2014, 02:46:48 PM

Would love to participate in this.
I only got a Brownie Six-20. Does that qualify as toy camera? It is built like it will survive at least 3 generations to come. Otherwise I would get something from the internets.

Seems to me like it should. Meniscus lens, one shutter speed, fixed aperture - sounds like a toy camera to me.

I'll likely be using my Brownie Hawkeye with reversed lens.

Francois · « **Reply #18 on:** October 12, 2014, 03:41:59 PM »

Lets just put it simply: any camera made from a number of parts that you can count on your fingers is a toy camera

And any camera that can melt in your car but not in your hand could also be a good candidate.

But the main thing is if the camera is crap, the lens is crap, it runs without batteries, has only one real shutter speed (no, bulb is not a speed), no more than three aperture values, uses waterhouse stops, doesn't or barely focuses... then you're pretty sure you have a toy camera in hand.

Just use your good judgement. When in doubt, the camera you're thinking about is probably too good for this

jharr · « **Reply #19 on:** October 12, 2014, 03:56:03 PM »

If it's in the shape of a cartoon character... you've got a toy camera.
If you can see the injection molding seams in the bright blue plastic... you've got a toy camera.
If you didn't notice that you put a big fingerprint on the lens, but you can't see any difference at all in the photos... you've got a toy camera.

Thank you folks. I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress!

Francois · « **Reply #20 on:** October 12, 2014, 09:33:04 PM »

If it came with a magazine subscription, it's a toy.
If it came as a petrol station freebie, it's a toy camera.
If it has a Barbie on it, it's a toy camera.
If it comes with a big chunk of mystery metal in the base to give it weight, it's a toy camera.
If it says "Optical Lens" on the lens barrel, it's a toy camera.
If it says "Optical Lens" with a typo on the barrel, it's a toy camera.
If you tie it to a helium filled party balloon and it floats away, it's a toy camera.
If it has a "motor drive" that sounds like the Fisher Price lawnmower, it's probably a toy camera too.

Dave Elden · « **Reply #21 on:** October 13, 2014, 11:27:59 PM »

Quote from: BAC1967 on September 18, 2014, 11:35:26 PM

I didn't flip my lens but I was able to load a 120 roll without re-spooling it...

Same here but I noticed the film advance was very stiff. Next roll I trimmed the plastic 120 reel flanges. I cut off the circumferential bead on each side using scissors. Wasn't very neat but the film advance is now a lot easier. On my Hawkeye the tabs people refer to are there but don't actually totally prevent you using 120 film, at least not Ilford product. The problem is the flange diameter which differs by about the width of that flange between 120 & 620 reels.
Shot a roll of Pan F yesterday, everything working OK on my 1959 Hawkeye so will be shooting next w/e.

Dave.

John Robison · « **Reply #22 on:** October 15, 2014, 01:40:23 AM »

I have a Sears 'Tower' 6X9 box camera I'm going to use. One aperture, one shutter speed +B and of course, no focusing. Strangely the shutter button is tapped for a cable release. That is good because because I'll be doggone if I'm going to use up a roll of my small precious stash of 120 film! Just too valuable and I'm too broke to buy more. That 'B' setting will come in handy because I'll just cut a piece of MGIV, load it in the darkroom, and make a paper negative to contact print.

If the first negative is too thin or dark I'll still have a chance to load another piece of paper. Ha!

Ezzie · « **Reply #23 on:** October 15, 2014, 06:59:13 AM »

My 1914 No2 Model D Brownie counts then. But suspect I will still be bedriidden on the 18th

Francois · « **Reply #24 on:** October 15, 2014, 02:35:12 PM »

Quote from: John Robison on October 15, 2014, 01:40:23 AM

Strangely the shutter button is tapped for a cable release.

Wow! That is one heck of a feature! Pretty rare in a way

Quote from: Ezzie on October 15, 2014, 06:59:13 AM

My 1914 No2 Model D Brownie counts then. But suspect I will still be bedriidden on the 18th

Maybe you can get a few shots from there? It really doesn't matter how much or how little you participate. The main thing is to be in the spirit of things.
I also hope you get better soon

jojonas~ · « **Reply #25 on:** October 15, 2014, 10:15:01 PM »

Quote from: Ezzie on October 15, 2014, 06:59:13 AM

My 1914 No2 Model D Brownie counts then. But suspect I will still be bedriidden on the 18th

agh, no! take care, eirik.

but if you are, take that as a challange! I'm with francois on that one. maybe you can take some fevery shots?

Francois · « **Reply #26 on:** October 15, 2014, 10:58:56 PM »

Or just one out the window...

Ezzie · « **Reply #27 on:** October 16, 2014, 07:50:07 PM »

Thanks guys. Will see what I can achieve.

Bryan · « **Reply #28 on:** October 17, 2014, 03:48:05 AM »

My Brownie Hawkeye is loaded and ready to go but it looks like I won't be able to participate

. I'm stuck in Boise, Idaho on an Emergency Response without it. I flew out here a week ago thinking I would only be gone a few days but now it looks like a few weeks. I did bring my new Kodak 35 RF to test it out but that wouldn't qualify. Kicking myself for not bringing the Hawkeye.

Francois · « **Reply #29 on:** October 17, 2014, 03:15:56 PM »

Oh well... stuff happens.

02Pilot · « **Reply #30 on:** October 18, 2014, 05:49:00 PM »

Done my part. Shot a roll each through my Brownie Hawkeye w/ reversed lens and Holga 135 Pan. Light wasn't great, but what can you do. We'll see what (if anything) turns out.

Flippy · « **Reply #31 on:** October 18, 2014, 06:08:23 PM »

Finishing up a half roll in the Bencini 24s, and putting a new roll in the mysterious Pakmatic Lumina 35.

Francois · « **Reply #32 on:** October 18, 2014, 09:22:32 PM »

Just finished processing my roll through the Halina Viceroy.
Looks good for daylight shots, not so much for flash shots since it's not X-sync as I've just discovered.

Ezzie · « **Reply #33 on:** October 19, 2014, 07:21:04 AM »

Hobbled out into the garden and shot a roll of Tri-X with the Box Brownie. But light was bleak and dismal. Didn't push the film enough in development, so the negs are thin. Scanning later today.

The WTCD.com site is not up to date, nothing since last year. Apart from here on FW, where would one post one's images?

jojonas~ · « **Reply #34 on:** October 19, 2014, 12:11:05 PM »

Quote from: Ezzie on October 19, 2014, 07:21:04 AM

Hobbled out into the garden and shot a roll of Tri-X with the Box Brownie. But light was bleak and dismal. Didn't push the film enough in development, so the negs are thin. Scanning later today.

The WTCD.com site is not up to date, nothing since last year. Apart from here on FW, where would one post one's images?

there's a site for it?? I always thought it was a bummed that it didn't have one like pinhole day. promoting that would be fun also seeing more shots from around the world maybe

edit: ah, I guess you mean wtcd.org? well there's always the flickr group: https://www.flickr.com/groups/worldtoycameradayand_then_some/
I know atleast ONE here that's admin of that group. time for a header image and new group icon maybe?

Ezzie · « **Reply #35 on:** October 19, 2014, 01:23:34 PM »

I meant .org, yes. Oh well. Not to worry. Now to some scanning