Author Topic: World Toy Camera Day!! (Read 12140 times)

astrobeck · « **on:** October 01, 2013, 04:28:27 PM »

October 19, 2013

limr · « **Reply #1 on:** October 01, 2013, 04:33:39 PM »

I guess my Konstruktor has a play date

Francois · « **Reply #2 on:** October 01, 2013, 09:54:06 PM »

I totally had forgotten about it this year!

astrobeck · « **Reply #3 on:** October 01, 2013, 11:12:10 PM »

Let's get this party started.....!

HolgaJen · « **Reply #4 on:** October 15, 2013, 04:44:38 PM »

Is there a poster this year that I can share on my blog? Flickr group or website or anything else?

astrobeck · « **Reply #5 on:** October 15, 2013, 04:51:07 PM »

Jen,
so far there isn't one, but Francois usually cooks one up for us....maybe he will chime in...

Alan · « **Reply #6 on:** October 15, 2013, 05:38:17 PM »

cool - i'll get the Holga's out

Francois · « **Reply #7 on:** October 15, 2013, 09:15:31 PM »

Sorry but no poster this year... or at least so far...

edthened · « **Reply #8 on:** October 16, 2013, 02:55:27 AM »

Och wit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nae poster

AJShepherd · « **Reply #9 on:** October 16, 2013, 11:19:02 AM »

I think I'll have to nip out first thing Saturday morning with my Lubitel and see what I can do.

Verian · « **Reply #10 on:** October 16, 2013, 12:18:42 PM »

If I get time, and one doesn't turn up by tonight, I might have a go at a poster.

(covering all my bases there in case I don't get around to it!)

Francois · « **Reply #11 on:** October 16, 2013, 03:24:26 PM »

Ok, Ok!
I'll work on something quick & dirty. Just don't expect as much as some of my previous stuff...

I have a few ideas, I just need to figure out how to make them work.

Verian · « **Reply #12 on:** October 16, 2013, 03:53:14 PM »

Francois · « **Reply #13 on:** October 16, 2013, 05:02:19 PM »

OK, just a quick hack job. My first idea didn't turn out so I opted for the second.
I'm taking you back to the 1940's, fedora hats and old movie posters.

Feel free to redistribute

(OK, now Flickr won't give me the BBcode for the image.... grrr)

Here's links to the files on my Google Drive. At least this works!
The JPG
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1dmZoIlURfDV3lSLXlBYVFWNVk/edit?usp=sharing

The PDF file for printing
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1dmZoIlURfDV0FOdC1UZjBDbXM/edit?usp=sharing

astrobeck · « **Reply #14 on:** October 16, 2013, 06:03:39 PM »

Love it!
Thanks so very, very much!

Becky

beck · « **Reply #15 on:** October 16, 2013, 08:55:35 PM »

I cannot participate this year because....well, the list is long. I did, however, make an additional WTCD poster.

Francois · « **Reply #16 on:** October 16, 2013, 09:00:58 PM »

I think I just saw a ghost!

Wow it's been a long time...

beck · « **Reply #17 on:** October 16, 2013, 09:05:23 PM »

Well, I do have that affliction on folk. Namaste!

LT · « **Reply #18 on:** October 16, 2013, 09:40:58 PM »

what happened to your eyes Beck? Is it contagious?

beck · « **Reply #19 on:** October 16, 2013, 10:27:34 PM »

Apparently something as I yet again, spelled a word wrong on the poster. Oy vey.

astrobeck · « **Reply #20 on:** October 16, 2013, 10:30:21 PM »

welcome back young'un...geeeze, it's been ages!

limr · « **Reply #21 on:** October 17, 2013, 05:03:48 AM »

Love it, Francois! So we can put that on a blog?

imagesfrugales · « **Reply #22 on:** October 17, 2013, 08:26:03 AM »

http://www.flickr.com/photos/imagesfrugales/10324228013/#

Verian · « **Reply #23 on:** October 17, 2013, 09:35:48 AM »

Put the posters on my blog, so about three more people will see them!

Francois · « **Reply #24 on:** October 17, 2013, 02:39:28 PM »

Quote from: limr on October 17, 2013, 05:03:48 AM

Love it, Francois! So we can put that on a blog?

Definitely, that's why I put it as Creative Commons Attribution

HolgaJen · « **Reply #25 on:** October 17, 2013, 03:45:03 PM »

Thanks Francois!!

beck · « **Reply #26 on:** October 17, 2013, 04:04:31 PM »

Anyone is free to use mine as well if so inclined.....my ego will not have it any other way.

astrobeck · « **Reply #27 on:** October 17, 2013, 05:38:41 PM »

I started a World Toy Camera Day Facebook page too, so feel free to wander over.

astrobeck · « **Reply #28 on:** October 17, 2013, 07:57:51 PM »

does anyone know where I can find a link to the first WTCD gallery we had over at toycamera?
I'm looking for that photo Don Brice did of the fisherman throwing a net over the water.....
thanks!

Francois · « **Reply #29 on:** October 17, 2013, 08:57:58 PM »

Well, Toycamera is dead and buried in the big digital graveyard...
You might have a chance by going through archive.org
Though results are less than 100% guaranteed...

astrobeck · « **Reply #30 on:** October 17, 2013, 09:18:34 PM »

Brilliant!
I just found some old "Great Lakes Area Plastic Camera" links.

Remember those days? The GAK days? Wow! I feel a lot older now....

LT · « **Reply #31 on:** October 17, 2013, 09:37:26 PM »

Quote from: astrobeck on October 17, 2013, 09:18:34 PM

Brilliant!
I just found some old "Great Lakes Area Plastic Camera" links.

Remember those days? The GAK days? Wow! I feel a lot older now....

that was the origins of TC.COM wasnt it Becky?

astrobeck · « **Reply #32 on:** October 17, 2013, 10:31:15 PM »

Leon, it was!

We've come a long, long way !

I wish we still had the selections of film and paper we had back then. :-)

Francois · « **Reply #33 on:** October 17, 2013, 10:44:46 PM »

Those were the days where you couldn't get a Holga in the whole of Canada!

I was going to see if there were any updates to the Junkstore camera site on a regular basis.
I also wished I could take those whimsical and soft images some of you took... but somehow, I just couldn't get away from my hard-edge super tight graphical compositions. Even when I got a Holga, I just couldn't make images as romantic as some of you.

Windy · « **Reply #34 on:** October 18, 2013, 01:33:26 PM »

I have to make a decision on what camera to use $:-\$

Verian · « **Reply #35 on:** October 18, 2013, 02:02:10 PM »

I thought it was today! I'm rubbish with dates. I've already been taking pictures with my Diana mini. I'm going to pretend today is tomorrow.

Adam Doe · « **Reply #36 on:** October 18, 2013, 03:10:32 PM »

At the risk of starting one of those unanswerable threads and having rotten vegetables thrown at my head, I'd like to ask the question; what defines a toy camera? It seems that Diana's and Holgas lay firmly in the toy realm, but what about some of the Lomography offerings like the Sprocket Rocket? Does any fully manual plasticam count? Can a homemade camera be construed as a toy camera or does it have to be a manufactured camera?

Francois · « **Reply #37 on:** October 18, 2013, 03:15:47 PM »

99% of the Lomography offering is in the toy camera world.

mcduff · « **Reply #38 on:** October 19, 2013, 03:13:38 AM »

Ya I think very few lomo cameras are not toys - only things like the LCA and such and that probably does work out to only 1% of their sales.

I first heard about toy cameras over ten years ago when a friend got into them and told me the term. The term confused me tho because the toy camera my friend had was literally a "toy" it was some goofy looking Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle product. So for years I thought a toy camera had to be something made for kids bought in the toy section haha.

But iI is a fuzzy line as to what is a toy camera. If I have a crappy 110 camera that was some dumb promotional giveaway that kids could mail in cereal boxtops for, I would consider that a toy camera. But I am not sure if I would consider my instamatic 10 a toy camera even tho is may not be that much better. I will not worry about that fuzzy line and dust off the holga I bought a while ago and shoot it for the first time tomorrow!!!

limr · « **Reply #39 on:** October 19, 2013, 03:24:36 AM »

My Konstruktor is loaded and ready to go. Gonna see how it does on the street tomorrow

tkmedia · « **Reply #40 on:** October 19, 2013, 07:49:36 AM »

I dont really technically consider a "holga" a toy camera, but it did become one. But the Diana is indeed a toy camera from the start.

AJShepherd · « **Reply #41 on:** October 19, 2013, 08:27:42 PM »

Ah well, I had been going to use the Lubitel today but the gears slipped on the lenses when i was checking it out so now they're out of alignment. Probably fixable, but a load of faff. After thinking i could use the Holga but really that's a bit obvious I figured my Seagull 4B-1 had to count as a toy camera. It's made in China and Lomography sell them for insane prices, ergo they're tat!

So having put in a roll of Kodak TMax 100 (the only medium format film I'd got) I headed out...

I do like a nice Morris Minor, you can even make out where the trafficators used to be on this one.

Morris Minor by Antony J Shepherd, on Flickr

The local hardware shop.

Hardware Shop by Antony J Shepherd, on Flickr

Well I thought it was odd.

Odd Graffito by Antony J Shepherd, on Flickr

SLVR · « **Reply #42 on:** October 20, 2013, 02:17:53 AM »

Here's how I did. Went out with my Slim White Angel and a roll of DoubleX.

Untitled by nownownownow, on Flickr

Verian · « **Reply #43 on:** October 20, 2013, 09:28:22 AM »

Finished a film yesterday, with a Diana mini. Can't develip C41 though so I'll have to take it to the shop.

Andrea. · « **Reply #44 on:** October 20, 2013, 01:42:00 PM »

Bit of a cock up really. UW&S

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #45 on:** October 20, 2013, 04:18:05 PM »

World Toy Camera Day! Brownie Hawkeye image.

moominsean · « **Reply #46 on:** October 20, 2013, 05:07:29 PM »

Took some shots with the Colorpack III. Not near a scanner until tomorrow though.

Cadha13 · « **Reply #47 on:** October 20, 2013, 07:08:20 PM »

Got myself one of those reusable OTU cameras, and it's a waterproof one to boot. Here's my excuse of using it at least once.

img019 by Cadha13, on Flickr

img020 by Cadha13, on Flickr

img006 by Cadha13, on Flickr

Windy · « **Reply #48 on:** October 20, 2013, 11:06:36 PM »

The Narrows, Stornoway snapped during yesterday's shopping trip - Holga 120TLR with Rollei 400s.

The Narrows, Stornoway by windy_, on Flickr

limr · « **Reply #49 on:** October 21, 2013, 04:39:09 AM »

I had my Konstruktor and some Kentmere 100 out in Manhattan yesterday. Development tomorrow and hopefully scanning tomorrow night. Keeping my fingers crossed that something came out well!