sliverfish
Back to Basics
These cameras have a long provenance going back through 110 and 126 Instamatic cameras, all the way to Kodak's venerable Brownie Box camera. They were budget 35mm models aimed at users who neither knew nor cared how photography worked, they simply wanted a memory captured.
Lenses are fixed and hyperfocal, shutters operate around 1/100 sec, and if apertures vary, it's to coincide with two modest film speeds.
I'm fond of such cameras. Most don't require a battery except for flash, and they lack the burdensome and complicated functions of upmarket equivalents. You pressed the shutter, and exposure latitude and your high street photofinisher did the rest, to paraphrase George Eastman.
The real magic is photons, silver halides and the strange reality that unfolds before the camera.
Back to Basics
These cameras have a long provenance going back through 110 and 126 Instamatic cameras, all the way to Kodak's venerable Brownie Box camera. They were budget 35mm models aimed at users who neither knew nor cared how photography worked, they simply wanted a memory captured.
Lenses are fixed and hyperfocal, shutters operate around 1/100 sec, and if apertures vary, it's to coincide with two modest film speeds.
I'm fond of such cameras. Most don't require a battery except for flash, and they lack the burdensome and complicated functions of upmarket equivalents. You pressed the shutter, and exposure latitude and your high street photofinisher did the rest, to paraphrase George Eastman.
The real magic is photons, silver halides and the strange reality that unfolds before the camera.