From the Certainly You're Joking Department ...

Yeah, looked at that earlier. First thought was 'a fool and his money are soon parted' or 'Doesn't a Holga give you that on every roll, no extra charge?'
 
That's pretty pathetic ... I'm sure it well sell but as someone said above about a fool and their money! So true.
 
Only $14 a roll!

I can get the same effect with color film in my Zorki if I forget to seal the edges of the back door with black tape.
 
Not necessarily defending these films, but they’re targeting folks who pretty much know nothing else but Instagram and other filter-laden applications.

It could be a positive if they act as a gateway to film photography in general...could be. After all, the novelty of these films are likely to wear off with their intended users, who, at this point, might be interested in exploring more traditional, or at least cheaper, films…might be.

Or maybe I'm completely wrong...that's OK.
 
Think exactly the same way! And you are right!

Gave my cat sitter five rolls of effect film. Different effects caused by different ways of pre-exposure or other manipulations. Expensive! But he took care very well of my ... "complicated" cats.

After the first roll he was bored and wanted to change for ordinary films. Will buy him some Portra next time...

These films are probably best for youngsters who are longing to find a way to analog photography and need an excuse to get hooked... :) And whatever promotes analog photography is fine anyway imho.
 
It reminds me of some of the stuff my father showed me out of Photographic Illustration Division in the early 70's. Color solarization of shots that would never have made it past the first pass of editing.

B2 (;->
 
I see so many young people using their cell phones to take pics with the apps that superimpose all kinds of weird things over the images. This is just an extension of that, a way to do it with film instead of digital. Wish I had thought of it first.

Best,
-Tim
 
Doesn't surprise me. People are dumb. They will pay for anything. I went to the lab to drop off a roll a couple weeks ago and there was this girl dropping off head of me who didn't know how to get the film out of her G2.

I get that people can be new, we all started somewhere. But it was very obvious that she had just hopped on the bandwagon, got a very expensive rangefinder and doesn't know how to use it.

I feel like people like this would buy this film.

Again, to each their own. We all started somewhere. At least film is being sold, and for that reason alone I can excuse the trendy stupidity.
 
So it's just pre-flashed film? Not sure why you'd pay for someone else to do that... I'm going to pre-flash some with a laser pen tonight and it won't cost me anything.

The light leaks effect thing really confuses me. So you want to use a film camera for that authentic film feel, but rather than get authentic light leaks you'll use a cheat? Just drill some holes in a cheap plastic camera.
 
dmr said:
{checking calendar to be sure it's not April 1!}

Surf here:

https://petapixel.com/2017/10/26/dubblefilm/
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Lux Optima said:
Think exactly the same way! And you are right!

Gave my cat sitter five rolls of effect film. Different effects caused by different ways of pre-exposure or other manipulations. Expensive! But he took care very well of my ... "complicated" cats.

After the first roll he was bored and wanted to change for ordinary films. Will buy him some Portra next time...

These films are probably best for youngsters who are longing to find a way to analog photography and need an excuse to get hooked... :) And whatever promotes analog photography is fine anyway imho.
Click to expand...

For more joking, and add cats:

https://petapixel.com/2017/10/25/photos-cats-martial-arts/

I don't know that photographer, but some of those were cute.
 
I think we need to cut the kids of today a little slack when they start using film cameras. We all grew up with them and saw others using them before we tried them ourselves. Kids today have no reference. When my son was about eight, he saw my Canon NEW F1 with the plastic square on the back that holds the cardboard end of a film box to tell you what film is loaded, and said, "That camera is broken Dad." And when I asked him why he said that, he pointed to that black plastic square and said, "Because the screen doesn't turn on."

They just got no reference for how film cameras work. Reminds me of a sight gag in some forgotten film, where a millennial stumbles across a rotary dial telephone from the 1960's and has no concept of how to work it.

Best,
-Tim
 
Yeah, I had to look twice too, because they ripped off one of my online photos of our cat Jasmine for their website images! Oh well, just life on the internet. I am finding my shots all over the place lately, which is great, because when my old online hosting site photobucket removed all of my photos (along with everyone else who was unfortunate enough to have used them) and tried to extort hundreds of dollars to get them back, now I can right click them on other people's websites and get them back where they belong :))
 
I had one of mine stolen for a sample shot for the lomography tiger film. The site wasn't lomo but there wasn't anything I could do in regards to issuing a takedown or getting any compensation.
 
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