When I was visiting London I was very excited to have the opportunity to visit the Lomography store – the Fisheye 2, a lomography camera, was my first introduction into the world of functional toy cameras and since then I’ve been a fan and collector of these inexpensive cameras.

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As I’ve mentioned before my love for toy cameras started when I received a fisheye2 from my aunt, Kate Pocock, for Christmas. Since then I have received many toy cameras as gifts and have purchased them for myself.

Most recently, I purchased a BBF (see previous blog) and am now waiting for it to arrive! This morning when I was getting ready for work I was reading another blog, I enjoy but haven’t visited for a while, and read about a new Holga! The Holga TLR & GTLR – a holga with a waist level view finder. It looks really cool – although it is not for sale on the lomography website yet 0 it seems that it has been released in Hong Kong and no surprise is readily available on ebay.

I have 2 holgas in my collection…but could always use a third…

So I was reading the latest issue of Shutterbug magazine and enjoying a lovely article on Toy Cameras which are one of my hobbies (and I almost always have one with me). I really love my holga camera and would say the only thing that bothers me sometimes is that there is no where nearby that I can go to get the film developed. Read the rest of this entry »