“Yucks!”, “Eeeew!”, “WTF?!!!”
These are some of the replies I expect when people see this Pop9 camera of mine. Hahaha!!!
I’ll name this camera ‘TRAGIC’. Sounds okay? I got this Pop9 camera for free (yay!) when I purchased a cheapo flash not long ago. It’s working fine except that the gold ‘paint'(?) on it has way too many scratches and the flash is dead. I’ve no problem with the flash, since I hate using in-camera flash but I kinda hated the gold color on it.
One night when I was having beer with some friends, we were discussing about the Holga designs I did and we were joking about ‘designing’ a camera that make people go ‘YUCKS!’. Aha! That’s a great idea, but I can’t bear to make a Holga or Diana look ugly! No way! So when this Pop9 came along … I knew it’s the best candidate to undergo a ‘UGLYfying’ operation. Work on it started about 2 months ago but I was too lazy to complete it … til now.
Here it is … the TRAGIC Pop9 camera 😛
I’m not sure what will happen when I bring this out for photo shoots … but I’ll definitely be bringing it out very soon. Stay tuned for updates. 😛