Ben, no-one here's dissing low-fi cameras in general. All the guys who've commented on the 135 have been using 120 Holgas and other plastic-lensed 'toycams' for years (in Mart's case probably getting on for 60 or 70 years). Therefore there is a very great understanding on this forum that you get out what you put in regarding photography in general and specifically with items like toycams. However, speaking for myself (and I wouldn't presume to speak for anyone else, but I do have a decent idea of how some people on FW think about these things), it's always better to stumble across something, be delighted by its quirks and then spend some time working out how best to deploy them w/ regard to an effective final image, than have a camera marketed at you specifically because it takes a particular kind of image.
I'm never good at writing out this type of thing, so apologies for being borderline incoherent. But what I took from the back and forth at the start of this thread was, "Does this camera do anything interesting over and above all of the other similar cameras that we've all used already?"...to which the answer so far seems to be, "Not really".
However, your comments I'd say that if someone's not tried a toycam before and wants to avoid MF and stick with 35mm, then the Holga 135 is a decent enough starting point.
Anyway, this is all clearly Skorj's fault!
