what camera shoots pictures like these?

[beginnerphoto]

Hi, I'm new here and I don't know much about different cameras. But I really like the effect of these photos and I was wondering what kind of camera shot these pictures?


Thanks in advance! 🙂

 

[Ranchu]

Disposable camera.

 

[colyn]

Any camera with the wrong exposure/flash...

 

[lynnb]

looks like plastic-lens camera with onboard flash. The unsharp (blurry-looking) is the result of mis-focus (or the lens is so bad that it has some parts in focus and some parts not in focus at the same distance from the camera!). The second shot is unfocused because the subject is too close to the camera and the lens cannot focus that close. You can see that the wall in the background is in focus.

The in-camera direct flash can produce that lighting effect, and it's also over-exposed resulting in washed out/bleached/overexposed look.

A cheap camera will do this. Like a disposable, or perhaps cheap Holga.

Edit: if you like this look you might also like Impossible Project instant film, or cell phone camera + Instagram. Pinhole cameras will also give you interesting results (in my opinion, any of these give more pleasing results, but it's what pleases you that matters).

 

[TXForester]

I agree with the above. If you want this effect for just a few photos, I'd get a disposable camera. But if you like it enough to want the effect on regular basis, then a Holga or something like that is the way to go because you can reload the camera with film.

 

[noisycheese]

These photos look like they were made with a camera that has fixed a fixed shutter speed and aperture, as well as a lens that is not adjustable regarding focus - in other words, a disposable camera.

That would account for the out of focus close-up of the girl (#2), the blown out highlights due to flash overexposure in both photos and the blurriness
(soft focus) of both.

 

[Richard G]

LLORT(?) You could still get this effect with manual focus on an a la carte Leica MP with an f1 Noctilux lens and Leica SF24 flash.

 

[Ronald M]

An old film camera with poor processing. Actually you can do it with anything if you know how to screw up a picture in photoshop. Work on each layer RBG layer separately shifting color balance and saturation. Don`t know the exact formula, but that will get you there.

 

[Bob Wilson]

Square frame = 126 cartridge film. Poor quality = Kodak Instamatic 104 or equivalent. Flash cube, Kodacolor, drugstore processing.

 

[hepcat]

LLORT(?) You could still get this effect with manual focus on an a la carte Leica MP with an f1 Noctilux lens and Leica SF24 flash.

All of my photos look like this from my M4-P and my Nokton f/1.1. The only difference is that I use an early '90s vintage Sunpak 544 on manual. I look through that window in the upper corner of the camera, but I can't figure out what all the lines and boxes mean. No matter. My Leica is a professional camera and makes professional pictures.

LLORT indeed. 😀

 

[sevo]

Square frame = 126 cartridge film. Poor quality = Kodak Instamatic 104 or equivalent. Flash cube, Kodacolor, drugstore processing.

Instagram. Why buy a crap camera when you already have one in your pocket?