Digital Black and White.

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S1R, Summilux-R 50mm
 
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Paper Shoot Camera with K2 Yellow and ND 8 filters attached. This is a circuit board camera with cardboard “cases” and lacks exposure control. Because it tends to over exposure, I’m using this stack of filters to tame the exposure of outdoor scenes. The 4:3 image was cropped to 3:2.
 
You've gotten me interested in the Camp Snap. I honestly have no use for a toy camera, can't imagine I would use it but it seems so cool. And the quality you got here is excellent.
I have shot toy cameras, off and on, since I was a kid. I love them. I have a small collection of toy film cameras, but the Camp Snap is the first digital toy camera I have ever used. Now, in the past I have shot Holga lenses mounted on digital cameras with excellent results. This Camp Snap camera is a blast to shoot. It has no screen, no controls of any kind- you simply press the shutter button and that is it. There is a viewfinder but it is terrible. I find myself pretty much holding the camera about chest high, trying to get it straight, and just shoot. The lens is the equivalent of about 35mm. You have no idea what you are getting until you get home and load the photos.

For a toy camera, the lens is pretty sharp, but if you start playing around with it in mixed lighting, things can change quickly. What I really like about the files are the colors the camera produces. They are soft and kind of dreamy, very reminiscent of Polaroids back in the day. I do very little in post processing- I want to produce pretty much what the camera is seeing. However, B&W is another matter entirely. The image I posted of the alien guy is the only really decent B&W image I could produce cleanly. For whatever reason, the color images, for the most part, do not translate well to B&W conversion and start to look a bit mushy. However, Camp Snap produces a B&W filter you can load into the camera, directly from their website. I left mine the way it came.

I paid 65.00, brand new, about a month ago. It comes with a built-in micro SD card and you simply load the photos onto your computer, notebook, or mobile device directly from the camera. You charge the battery with the same type of charger cord that most phones use.

I literally drop the camera in my shirt pocket and take off around my little hometown, looking for stuff to shoot, just like the old days when I was a kid with my first camera.
 
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