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While digital photography has revolutionised the way we view and do photography, film cameras like the Golden Half (below) are causing a return to film amongst Adelaide’s more adventurous and experimental happy-snappers. Andy Irwin from Value King, who stocks a wide range of toy cameras, explains that film encourages a different appreciation of photos.

The beauty of this one is that it takes 35mm film, so you can get the film at the supermarket, you can get the photos processed at Rabbit Photos as opposed to the other toy cameras where you really have to be dedicated enough to find a specialty developer. This one’s great and you get two shots to one negative. So when you hold it horizontal it’s portrait instead of landscape and it splits the negative down the middle. It’s just really cool the way you can kind of compose two things, in terms of what you put next to each other in a shot. The great thing about this too, that people flip out about is that it’s got the hot shoe there that you can connect the flash to it, so for a camera that size (again around 4cm) to have a flash it just . Everyone that’s bought it has really raved about it.

Basically this is the one that kind of started it all, the Holga. It’s kind of the one stop shop if you will. Itdoes it all. It’s a medium format camera, it takes 120 film and produces a square negative that’s quite large.Usually they’re a lot more expensive than a 35mm film (normal camera). But this is where the Holga comesinto its own. All the parts are plastic and they’re really reasonably priced for all the advantages of film.
This is the fisheye camera. The film fits around the back and it’s as big as that (about 4 centimetres in diameter). It actually produces amazing photos. If you want to check them out just check Flickr forDemekin there’s some really good stuff.
