What Disposable Cameras Can Do
Pim writes:
I sent a number of disposable cameras to a few people - children and farmers - at a small village in Lesotho, Southern Africa and asked them to take pictures of their life. What returned are some truly amazing pictures, un-mediated by the professional photographer's eye.I remain ga-ga over the quality of pictures taken by those with no training. Keep these in mind the next time you try to convince yourself you need that $2,000 DSLR.I posted a number of them here, you might find them interesting. They are really amazing, especially considering they were taken by a throw-away Kodak, by folks who mostly had never even touched a camera before.
We are doing this as part of our Menu for Hope, the fourth annual fundraising raffle run by me and a whole bunch of food blogging friends to raise funds for the UN World Food Program - last year's campaign did over $60K in two weeks. This year's plan is to support the school lunch program in Lesotho, where the WFP not only feed the kids but is pushing a new initiative to buy from local farmers to support the program. We help feed the kids, which keeps them in school, and also support their parents and community farming.
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I know film is a bit oldskool, but I spend 6 months on a project where I pulled apart disposable cameras and removed and replace the used canisters with fresh rolls of film.
To do this I needed a bulk-winder and an assortment of not too butched but empty canisters - BUT they must be from disposable's of the same kind as they have a little cog on spool.
The fun came when I applied lots of vaseline or scratched the hell out of the lenses. Some very fun effects -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/raromachine/150111858/
Pays to get friendly with the person at the photolab - I got a few kilograms of old film spools for nix!
Also - beware of the cameras with flashes - once you get the housings off there are some metal parts which are connected to the thing that stores the charge for the flash. yeow!
There is no machine that will make art.