Really, it was close… sorta. I knew headed in that the plastic cameras would win over the LC-W, and the inclusion of the super-fancy FM3a/17-35mm f/2.8 was so spur-of-the-moment that I didn’t even really consider it. But here we are. After those few days at Mom’s and a week of round-robins, the LC-W and FM3a …
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In preparation for a recent short trip to visit Mom, I thought it might be fun to pit the Konica WaiWai against the Lomo LC-Wide. I then thought it might be a good idea to also add in the Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim, and then remembered my recent purchase of a gently used Nikkor …
When I first heard that RETO planned to produce a copy of the Ultra Wide & Slim camera, I didn’t need another camera… But at $25, I really couldn’t pass it up either… It was a quick impulse preorder/purchase, using ApplePay on my phone, and to my horror and fury, instead of $25, or $33 …
smh. I don’t know what I was thinking… It was sometime in early March, 2021, and I got the crazy idea to shoot some slide film. Now, I self-process everything (b/w, c-41, and e6) and chemicals to process slides are sorta expensive and I believe them to be rather short-lived.* So, I reasoned, if I’m …
I backed a bunch of different Silberra films. 160, 200, Ortho, I forget what else. So far, I’ve received 2 rolls each of Silberra Pan 200 and Silberra Ultima 200 (I Indiegogoed that pair twice), and I filmed an unboxing of both, but then decided against sharing them, so instead, you get this nice first …
Yes, I unboxed this little beauty in my PJ’s. Deal with it. https://youtu.be/Oux9FE2miJI
With three or four days left in May, I managed to weasel myself into the May edition of @CraftyMoni‘s postcard swap. tl;dr: I got the better end of the deal. https://youtu.be/AWwLaNu6QCM
