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Four Corners Store

Cameron — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:54:41 +0000

When I was younger there used to be a chain of grocery stores that went by the name of the Four-Square cooperative chain. These days I don’t see many of those stores around due to the big monopolies of the large supermarket chains. I’m happy to announce that a different kind of ‘four’ store, the Four Corners Dark Store is now open for business. You may recall me mentioning that nice fellow Nic Nichols in previous posts, well he now has a resource on his Four Corners dark site for analogue and toycamera lovers alike. I quote “the new Four Corner Store, our online shop for some of your quirky Toy Camera needs. We aren’t a big giant store, we are a little corner shop who has built up a nice inventory of Cams, Film and Accessories. Have a look around, and feel free to comment on things you’d like to see- we’ll be adding new products every week. Hope you enjoy!” Check it out!

Instant Film News, 110 Camera Reviews etc

Cameron — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:01:12 +0000

Paddling - taken with an Polaroid SX-70 camera

My thanks to Nic Nichols and his excellent blog Four Corners Dark from where I gleaned much of this information. I’ve been a bit crook with the flu so having an informative resource like Four Corners Dark to read whilst locked away (to prevent me inflicting my bugs on anyone else) feeling muzzy headed is a boon. Of course there are a lot of great toy camera related sites out there (just check the links on the sidebar or the sites of interest page) but I have been getting a lot of enjoyment reading Nic’s latest reviews and news, not the least of which the latest reviews with accompanying results of a couple of cool little (and I mean little) Cameras from Superheadz Ina Babylon, the demekin 110 format fisheye camera (that’s right!) and the ikimono, another 110 format camera that takes more conventional shots. You can read Nic’s reviews here:
The Demekin
The Ikimono

Again through reading Nic’s blog, I found out more good news about the future of instant film, in particular Polaroid, you may remember my post on The Impossible Project a while back, well it seems things have progressed read more about it at Dave Bias (one of the co-founders of Save Polaroid)

Blended Holga Views of New York

Cameron — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:30:12 +0000

ears ago I achieved some unintentional overlapped Black & White shots with my Holga camera the first time I took it out, due to my failing to set the number of exposures correctly at the film counter window. This is quite a common ‘mistake’ for first time users of cameras with alternative frame mask choices in their camera.
I found quite interesting this New York Times short video of photographer Stephanié de Rougués deliberately overlapped images from her Holga camera. Thanks to C Gary Mower for the link! (via twitter)