bite sized snack
Out of the blue, a friend gifted me a tiny toy camera. The Chuzhao TLR looks like a Rolleiflex 4x4 left in the dryer too long, but it's really a spiritual descendant of the Holga and Dianna toy cameras. Under the pop-up lens hood is a 1-1/2 inch preview, which isn't backwards and upside-down like film TLRs. It's not a serious camera, but that's what made it unexpectedly fun. The look-down viewfinder and the camera's lilliputian* dimensions demand a non-standard approach to subjects. That change is its biggest charm.
* Ever since it arrived, I've been thinking how to work that word into a review.
bite sized snack
Out of the blue, a friend gifted me a tiny toy camera. The Chuzhao TLR looks like a Rolleiflex 4x4 left in the dryer too long, but it's really a spiritual descendant of the Holga and Dianna toy cameras. Under the pop-up lens hood is a 1-1/2 inch preview, which isn't backwards and upside-down like film TLRs. It's not a serious camera, but that's what made it unexpectedly fun. The look-down viewfinder and the camera's lilliputian* dimensions demand a non-standard approach to subjects. That change is its biggest charm.
* Ever since it arrived, I've been thinking how to work that word into a review.