Ultra Wide and Slim - lomography 100 film

Onto my favourite toy camera, the superheadz Ultra Wide and Slim :) I love this camera because it's sturdy, comes in amazing colours, is affordable and provides great saturated colours. I got my first one of these cameras on my 2011 trip to Japan I picked out the pink colour and used it excessively before tragically losing it to gosh knows where - I secretly hope someone found it, developed the pictures and is out there on facebook searching for it's owner :P  Anyway after that loss I wanted to experiment with different toy cameras so I got my Holga 135bc and my juice box but I still missed my superheadz so I eventually bought another one in gold :) The gold is shiney and really gold (awesome) but the pink was almost rubbery and I maybe even liked it better (although that may just be nostalgia talking)

The nice thing about this camera (as its name suggests) it's ultra wide meaning its lens captures a wider view than my other toy cameras with a focal length of 22mm (getting close to fish eyed wide!) without suffering any of the distortion

Like the juice box camera you have no control over the settings apart from your film choice which also means you can't do double exposures either but for what it is, it's awesome :)

STATS
11 keeps 27 fails
Fail reasons: close up shots, shooting into the light, indoors
Things to remember: you think I would had learnt all the fail reasons by now, but I'm not really posting the film in a chronological order (my excuse anyway!) 

Okay so the things I have to remember are; don't do close ups, don't shoot into the sun - toy camera don't make sun flares attractive (not from my experience anyway) they also need lots of light so don't even think about shooting indoors...okay got it! Next time I'll treat you better Ultra Wide and we'll have more success together :)

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Canon EOS 3 - Lomography 800 Film

Unfortunately I haven't run a 400 lomography film through my EOS 3 (such contempt for 400 film :p) but I do have the 800 Lomo film to show you guys! I took most of my roll of film indoors. I'd loaded it into my camera knowing I'd be in low light situations. Remember the higher the number on the film the more sensitive it is to light and thus performs better in low light situations (though the more visible grain too!)

STATS

14 keeps 22 fails

Fails Reasons: Not in focus

Things to remember: I know the 22 fails seems bad but low light meant the auto focus really struggled in the camera! It was definitely not the film's fault. I actually loves how the film performed with indoor lighting, I thought it gave really great vibrant and interesting colours and I'd happily (and have) bought this film again! I also think the grain looks totally fine too :)

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Canon EOS 3 - Lomography 100

So today I'm profiling Lomography 100 colour film using my Canon EOS 3.  100 ASA/ISO film just refers to the speed of the film - commonly known as the ISO on digital cameras.  100 is a super slow film, not very sensitive to light and therefore needs a lot of light, you can get light in a couple of other ways, through the speed of the shutter, the thing that makes the noise on your camera when you take a photo, or through widening your aperture (usually on more expenses lenses). So why use a slow film and not just a super fast one that will work in low light situations? Well 100 will give you super fine grain :) If you're planning on using your camera on a sunny day I'd always go for a low speed film!

Lomography is all about their plastic fantastic cameras but they also produce there own series of film. I'll say straight off the bat that I think for the price their film is very reasonable and I'm currently stocked up on a variety of their films! They're also a Worldwide company so having a website specifically for Australia is a great plus for me as shipping is very reasonable :)

STATS

16 keeps 20 fails (wowsers!)

Fail Reasons: Not in Focus / Bad Cropping (on my behalf) / Boring Shots

Things to remember: Quite similiar to the portra 160 as in I was making the same mistakes; using autofocus on the EOS 3 (it's very hit and miss - use manual focus!) taking boring shots in the hope that the awesome film colours would save them (rookie error) and just general bad cropping. I found that this film is less reliable than portra 160 but that I needed to step up my game and think more about each frame before pressing the shutter button, something that film definitely teaches you to do! 

So my verdict for these slow films is that I'd choose Portra over Lomography if money wasn't an issue but film photography can get quite pricey, especially factoring in developing, so for everyday shots I'm quite happy to stick with my lomography film :)

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