Toy camera

The original Diana camera was made in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s. Copies (the Diana+ and Diana F+) are currently produced by Lomography.
Hong Kong's Holga camera takes medium-format photographs on 120 film.
A photograph taken with a Holga.
A photograph (Da Ci'en Temple, Xi'an, China) taken with an original Diana camera. Evident is the typical vignetting and blurring inherent in a Diana image.

Within the field of photography, a toy camera refers to a simple, inexpensive film camera.

Despite the name, they are in fact always fully functional and capable of taking photographs, albeit with optical aberrations due to the limitations of the simple lenses. From the 1990s onward there has been interest in the artistic use of such cameras, both those designed for children such as the Diana, others originally intended as mass-market consumer cameras such as the LOMO LC-A, Lubitel, and Holga.

Many professional photographers have used toy cameras and exploited the vignetting, blur, light leaks, and other distortions of their inexpensive lenses for artistic effect to take award-winning pictures.[1] Toy camera photography has been widely exhibited at many popular art shows, such as the annual "Krappy Kamera" show at the Soho Photo Gallery in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City. Various publications such as Popular Photography magazine have extolled the virtues of the Diana camera in its own right as an "art" producing image maker. Several books have also featured the work of toy cameras, such as The Friends of Photography's "The Diana Show", "Iowa" by Nancy Rexroth, and "Angels at the Arno" by Eric Lindbloom.

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References

  1. ↑ Schiesel, Seth (8 June 2005). "Which Camera Does This Pro Use? It Depends on the Shot". New York Times. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
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