Sometimes I think I should just bring bread to work and stay in the office for lunch. 🙁 Made a short trip to ThirtySix and ended up with more damages to my (already badly torn) wallet. What’s the loot this time?
Finally the elusive Tolne camera is on their shelves! Was torn between the green and blue but decided on the blue one because the green one is a little too bright for this old fella. No … don’t you dare ask why didn’t I buy all 4 colors! I asked Cindy at the shop and was told that this plastic toy camera has everything. Everything? Huh? She told me that not only it has built-in flash, it can do multi-exposures … and even give photos with exposed sprocket holes. Huh? For real?
Looking at the content of the package … it comes with 3 filters for some fun photos (the packaging says ‘TAKE A FUNNY PICTURE’. Hmmm!). There is a fog (blur?) filter, a ‘triple’ filter (those that gives you triple images) and one that gives you sepia tone.
Look at the photo above. Hahaha! See that little filter that has some ‘sprocket holes’ on it? Hahaha! Oh yeah! That’s how you get photos with exposed sprocket holes! Cute! Problem is you can’t remove and install this filter while you have film loaded in the cam. Still pretty cute. I do wonder if you let the lab scan the photos, will the guy crop off the sprocket hole areas and leave you with some tiny frame that resembles those from a 110 camera. Hmm …
Apart from also picking up a pack of the Lomography’s new Redscale XR film, I also bought a cool TLR-looking pencil sharpener. I do not really need it but Fitzand does. Let me share a weird story with you. Last night was the first time Fitzand wanted to try sharpening his pencil and we had only a small sharpener. You know … those little ones that you need to keep turning and turning? He took about 10 minutes trying to sharpen the pencil and I was sitting there staring at how determined he was … trying to do it himself. I told him that I’ll get him a sharpener that makes sharpening pencils easier … and then I took a photo of him (struggling with the pencil sharpener) and sent it to Cindy (from ThirtySix). Fitzand asked me … ‘Buy new sharpener? From which shop?’. I immediately got a reply from Cindy saying that … a few minutes ago she was just talking to Noreen (her partner’s talented girlfriend) that … ‘only ndroo will buy the sharpener’. OMG! What timing! It was really weird and I had a good laugh. Okay … so I bought it …
Hope the weekend comes faster and I can go try out a roll or two on the Tolne camera. Oh … I just showed the sharpener to a colleague and she asked me ‘Hey … what happened to the camera? Lens broken?’. Hahahaha!