The tricks to weathered and nostalgic photography and film

joshkowski · Post by **joshkowski** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:34 pm

I'm a complete newbie when it comes to the topic above ^ But i was just wondering what some of you folks use these days for beautifully imperfect photography. I've been looking into it and this "Holga" camera has really struck some intrigue with me. The japanese made camera...all plastic and pretty toy-like. But i have a bunch of photos taken with holgas and they are fucking lush, beautiful. They are slightly warped and really look like they have been edited ( but they haven't ) So i was thinking about arming myself with a couple of holgas and a rare toy video camera known as the PXL-2000. Its a video came made in the 1980's by fisher price and its known for capturing a grainy and aged picture...effing awesome. So i guess the question is...do you photographers and filmers know of any other vintage gadgets that are aged and show it. I'm not really interested in glamorous equipment, no fancy pants snazzy stuff.

there is one pxl-2000 on ebay right now but its already in the 150's...shit.

wwbjd · Post by **wwbjd** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:23 am

Get the Holga!

Unfortunately mine wasn't letting enough light in, so I tossed it instead of beating it up some more.

plaster · Post by **plaster** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:06 am

the term is called lomography or simply lomo.

you can check more at http://www.lomography.com/
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sevenELIXIR · Post by **sevenELIXIR** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:15 am

I just bought a polaroid sx-70 onestep sonar land camera... haven't tried it yet but from some of the pictures I've seen taken by this camera, I am looking forward to it

cmx · Post by **cmx** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:04 am

i filmed something this year on a bolex (used lighting and stuff) and simply editing it using scissors and tape on a dusty editing machine gave it that special look. scanning in film from a photo camera can give quite grainy and washed effects too.

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:50 am

Take a normal fotograph and hold it above a candle but don`t let the flame go through.I used to do it with treasure maps to play with^^.

pippin · Post by **pippin** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:46 am

This might interest you: http://luguber.net/children.html

He uses a polaroid camera for these

bluesky · Post by **Fredd-E** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:59 am

pippin wrote:This might interest you: http://luguber.net/children.html

He uses a polaroid camera for these

omfg that is NICE!

really liking these pictures!

Techboy · Post by **Techboy** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:13 pm

But sometimes a bit of creativity is "nice"
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/1441 ... 828to0.jpg

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:15 pm

Techboy wrote:But sometimes a bit of creativity is "nice"
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/1441 ... 828to0.jpg

Is that a drum set?

Techboy · Post by **Techboy** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:16 pm

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:17 pm

not very magical, but still a nice effect^^

ExitEuXa · Post by **ExitEuXa** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:25 pm

pippin wrote:This might interest you: http://luguber.net/children.html

He uses a polaroid camera for these

Fantastic.

Techboy · Post by **Techboy** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:31 pm

Cupz wrote:not very magical, but still a nice effect^^

yeah i need sometihng more interesting for a photo but im too lazy to go outside

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:34 pm

there is magic inside 2^^

kozmikoid · Post by **kozmikoid** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:08 am

This might interest you: http://luguber.net/children.html

He uses a polaroid camera for these

Those photos are just beautiful. He's really captured something special there.

Bye, kozmikoid.

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:09 pm

My Girlfriend Carol likes to use a 1945 Kodak Brownie Camera.

Photos of her other work: http://www.flickr.com/photos/76223239@N00/

1945 Kodak Brownie Camera

A dollar store 35mm film camera took this.

sevenELIXIR · Post by **sevenELIXIR** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:11 pm

beautiful

InsomniacDMG · Post by **InsomniacDMG** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:18 pm

I love the scratched, tunnel-vision aesthetic the 1945 Brownie produces.

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:04 pm

Yeah,an automatic radial blur