Given someone has already posted some shots from a Holga, I thought I might post a few from black and white single use cameras. Talk Photography runs a challenge each year with a title that's a variant of "Is it the camera or the idiot behind the camera?"; the rules are, use a single use camera, effectively no post processing (no cropping, no levelling etc). You could do what you like before the shot, but afterwards, as processed and scanned (or printed and scanned). Last year I decided to try a couple of black and white single use cameras, and process myself.
First was an Ilford HP5+ single use. In this case I attached a red filter with tape onto the front. It was a bit of a bodge, as part of the edge of the filter came across the "viewfinder". In practice this camera performed pretty well; I even got a few "action shots" when the Tour of Britain swept through Edinburgh where we were staying. Not showing those, though!
These are developed in Ilfosol 3 in my Agfa Rondinax 35U tank. I only started devving last year, and I haven't tried anything except Ilfosol 3 yet. I use the Rondinax (a tank where you can load the film onto the spiral from the spool) as I have an injury to my right hand that makes manipulation difficult, and I didn't fancy loading onto a spiral in a dark bag!
This first one is taken from Cockenzie looking back towards Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh (the odd-shaped hill):
For the second, I thought, since the camera is likely rubbish and distorted, why not go for a shot full of curved and angles? This is a pedestrian bridge in Edinburgh. The vertical white line is an artefact (light leak) from loading the Rondinax in bright sunlight, against all advice (I worked this out later). Still think it's worth putting up here, though. (Not sure where the second thumbnail has gone?)
I also tried a Rollei Superpan 400 single use camera, without the red filter this time. This was much nicer to use, and the viewfinder was much better. However, it became clear on developing the film (which I think turned out to be a variant of aerial surveillance film, polyester rather than acetate, and not at all suitable for the Rondinax) that the lens was really much worse, so I've only included the one shot here, for fun (and to warn you off!):
First was an Ilford HP5+ single use. In this case I attached a red filter with tape onto the front. It was a bit of a bodge, as part of the edge of the filter came across the "viewfinder". In practice this camera performed pretty well; I even got a few "action shots" when the Tour of Britain swept through Edinburgh where we were staying. Not showing those, though!
These are developed in Ilfosol 3 in my Agfa Rondinax 35U tank. I only started devving last year, and I haven't tried anything except Ilfosol 3 yet. I use the Rondinax (a tank where you can load the film onto the spiral from the spool) as I have an injury to my right hand that makes manipulation difficult, and I didn't fancy loading onto a spiral in a dark bag!
This first one is taken from Cockenzie looking back towards Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh (the odd-shaped hill):
For the second, I thought, since the camera is likely rubbish and distorted, why not go for a shot full of curved and angles? This is a pedestrian bridge in Edinburgh. The vertical white line is an artefact (light leak) from loading the Rondinax in bright sunlight, against all advice (I worked this out later). Still think it's worth putting up here, though. (Not sure where the second thumbnail has gone?)
I also tried a Rollei Superpan 400 single use camera, without the red filter this time. This was much nicer to use, and the viewfinder was much better. However, it became clear on developing the film (which I think turned out to be a variant of aerial surveillance film, polyester rather than acetate, and not at all suitable for the Rondinax) that the lens was really much worse, so I've only included the one shot here, for fun (and to warn you off!):
