800 Lomo - Holga 135bc

So far so good on my commitment to a film camera a month - Woohoo! The only hurdle so far is that I have too much film - rolls that I never got developed and never got to share with you guys. So even though I'm going off course here, I still thought it was better to share these rogue rolls than to not! So the plan is to get around blogging my random rolls whilst still doing my film camera a month promise :) :) 

Sound good? I hope so :) 

The first random roll was all the way back from my trip to Japan. I was quite excited to see this roll because it contained one of my favourite things from our trip - fruit bus stops!!! I used my Holga 135bc, which you can read more over here. The Holga 135bc is a super cheap, basic, one-setting camera that I used with a lomography 800 Colour roll of film. 800 ISO turned out to be a perfect speed for that one camera settings giving lots of light and thus probably exposed photos :) 

The Holga 135bc with its plastic lens and very simple design ends up producing very soft photos but I actually think it works really great for those fruit bus stops which were taken in very very bright sunlight (almost too contrasty for my digital!) Lesson learnt - high ISO film and very bright lighting go down a treat with the Holga 135bc!

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Canon Autoboy 3 - lomography 800

This camera review is a little silly, I actually picked up an underwater housing kit from the op shop and just grabbed whatever closest canon camera looked like it fitted at the time (thinking the person donated the housing and camera at the same time) turns out they didn't and that's how the Autoboy came into my possession. On a side note the underwater housing is actually for a digital canon camera so I carry with me a piece of paper, listing all the compatible models, just in case I ever find one at an op shop - kind of crazy!

I've put one roll of film through the Autoboy (800 Lomo) and after that it's been sitting in my camera box collecting dust. It's definitely not a bad camera by any means it's just that it's all auto (which ironically was probably it's main selling feature at the time - way back in 1986). I personally like to have some control over my cameras - unless they're toy cameras than it's fun to just roll with the punches. Maybe the Autoboy could be considered a toy camera but it's shots seemed too predictable to call it that.

You can probably see that it has a built in flash - the very top photo is from this crazy Halloween thing we went on.  I'll link you to Dan's (my friend's) review of the park - it was horribly cheesy and took place at the Big Pineapple at night. We essentially rode the Big Pineapple train and got scared by live actor zombies doing things like eating each other and wielding chain saws - epically awesome. On a side not our little town is filming a slasher film with Tara Reid leading in it and has the same crew that did the crazy special effects for that pop-up theme park - pretty cool for the Sunshine Coast!

The photo underneath that is one of the mutton birds I was talking about when I first spotted them and they still had all their feathers intact :(

Underneath the bird is Ben and shows one of the downsides to the Autoboy - the time stamp - I'm sure you could remove that somewhere in the settings but my settings were all in Japanese. The camera got released all over but my model must have been the Japanese one and hence the Autoboy name - in continental Europe it was known as the top shot and everywhere else the sure shot surpreme. I personally think Autoboy sounds the cutest :)

Actually from that time stamp the camera was released or last used 01/01/1985 how crazy! The only other thing I can remember about the Autoboy was the battery was sealed in by screws - slight annoyance but as I said it's sitting in a box somewhere gathering dust and I'm not sure I'll use it again - sorry Autoboy!

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