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Waiting for the bus. Taken on a digital toy camera that’s modelled after a hasselblad. #ToyCamera #ShittyCameraChallenge #StreetPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #Photography

2 people waiting for the bus at the bus stop. A woman is sticking her arm out signalling for an oncoming bus to stop.

Obligatory selfie test shot, this is another digital toy camera, modelled after the hasselblad 🖤 #ToyCamera #Photography #ShittyCameraChallenge

A mirror selfie of a woman in black and white.

More from my Debonair #toycamera, Lomochrome Metropolis. Looks like histogram stretching does a good job preserving the unique color of this film. Light leaks are from my stupid mistake: I tried to attach the second roll of 120 film onto the tape of the first roll, and turns out I failed to load the second roll. It was still in the dark bag after I opened it to take the Paterson tank out to develop the first roll. Anyway, light leaks go well with the lomo vibe. #shittycamerachallenge #lightleak #subwaystation #lomography #lofi #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm #darktable #streetphotography #nyc

Top of the glass vault of 72th St station on Broadway and Amsterdam reflecting a Beaux Art dome of another building

Harsh sun shines into the red mural of a Chinese restaurant named Xi'an Famous Food

Long and tall window of a brick building reflects the building across the street

Light shines down along a brick wall onto a pile of snow

Dirty and not so dirty snow, Harman Phoenix 200 #winter #snow #nyc #pollution #doubleexposure #shittycamerachallenge #toycamera #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm #darktable #grainisgood

A pile of incredibly dirty snow that almost looks like mud

Focusing on the snow by the sidewalk, leading to Low Library at Columbia University

Looking down Morningside Park's snow-covered slope. Midtown skyline is in the distance.

Since Harman Phoenix 200 has high contrast, then why not use it to enhance contrast of a low contrast scene? It worked. I did histogram stretching in #darktable and did not adjust contrast. #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm #streetphotography #shittycamerachallenge #toycamera #nyc

The shadow of a person cross the light reflected off windows on the street

Harman Phoenix 200 (the first version with orange box), shot with Debonair #toycamera. Everything I read about this film is true. It has high contrast, high saturation, low dynamic range, halation, funky colors, and high grain. So much grain that I can readily see them in the scans of 120 film. Looks like it does something funky in underexposed areas which goes well with the Debonair lofi vibe. Harman Phoenix's official datasheet says it's a pain in the ass to scan this film and it's 100% true. #shittycamerachallenge #filmphotography #streetphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm #mediumformat #120film #darktable #lomography #lofi #nyc #grainisgood

Reflection of a Gothic cathedral in a window

A mid-rise apartment building is partially illuminated in the harsh sun

Looking up at a sliver of sun on top of a brick building, next to a tree

A sliver of sun shines into an alcove in a high-rise building

Shot on the Chuzhao toy camera last year. #ToyCamera #Chuzhao #ShittyCameraChallenge #StreetPhotography

Kodak DC120 (0.83MP, 1996)

This camera is such a pain and such a pleasure! It shoots in a proprietary image format (.KDC files) that I first have to convert to BMP files of all things with 30-year old software from Kodak (I run it on Windows 98).

#ShittyCameraChallenge #SooC

GBCam variant #GameBoyCamera #ShittyCameraChallenge

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grainy GameBoy Camera photo of the text "FUCK MEGAPIXELS! I NEED MOOD!!" in an orange tinted palette

same image in a more DMG GB like green palette

I have just completed my BW film development kit, and this is the first roll I developed, from my Debonair #toycamera. Film: Kentmere Pan 200. Developer: Arista D76. Most photos here were taken at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. I won't be too sad if I screw up and lose this roll. Developing film is way easier than I thought, 10x easier than staining microscopy slides which I used to do as an undergrad. However, scanning is 10x harder than I thought. No wonder most labs separately charge for scanning and Photo Life often screws up the scan. No wonder dedicated film scanners are so expensive. How I scanned: I have a 2009 inkjet printer that comes with a scanner. It can't scan at high enough a resolution though for now it's good enough for Debonair. Next time I'll use the digital camera method. #believeinfilm #shittycamerachallenge #filmphotography #analogphotography #ishootfilm #lomography #lofi #snow #winter #nyc #lightleak

BW photo of a small tree in the snow, casting long shadows

Light casts into a glass window, which forms interesting patterns from both the shadows inside the room and from the reflections.

Lots of icicles on the exterior of a greenhouse

A person is walking on a crosswalk, with lots of dirty snow. The sun casts a long shadow from that person. There's graffiti on a wall across the street.

Pretty good summary for the #ShittyCameraChallenge (thx to Azi on the Digicam Discord for the inspiration)

PSVita displaying a handwritten white and green text on a noisy black background. "FUCK MEGAPIXELS! I NEED MOOD!!"

@rl_dane where’s “shitty camera”? Too challenging?

#shittycamerachallenge

those old scientist.... #ShittyCameraChallenge #PSVita

high contrast b/w Vita photo of an TOS episode showing Spock's face raising an eyebrow

Another b/w Vita screencap of Captain Kirk looking visibly concerned

and one more of Dr. McCoy giving his opinion. It looks like there's a thin black outline going around him

175 days over the river Two FilmCan #pinhole, two positions, C311 #FOMA paper both #solrargraphy #sunpath #photography #ShittyCameraChallenge @photohour.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @stormhour.com@bsky.brid.gy

Mermaid inn, Philadelphia 2025 Iloca Stereo 1a (c.1950), 2x Jlitar 45mm 3.5, kentmere 100 (pyro 510) Also an attempted pair of me carrying the a Ricoh, by my daughter, but ruined by the iloca. 🤷‍♂️ That’s it for me for this round of the 💩Challenge! #BelieveInFilm #ShittyCameraChallenge

A stereo pair looking up at the exterior of the historic Mermaid Inn on chestnut hill, Philadelphia.

Messed up photo of a man holding a camera. There is a piece of film sprocket covering the negative that was ripped off by the advance sprockets.

Mushroom bin at the farmers market, Philadelphia 2025 Iloca Stereo 1a (c.1950), 2x Jlitar 45mm 3.5, kentmere 100 (pyro 510) #BelieveInFilm #ShittyCameraChallenge

A side by side stereo pair of a plastic bin of mushrooms on a table.

Debonair #toycamera, Kodak Gold 200, featuring cool light leaks and the nurses' strike #nyc #lomography #ShittyCameraChallenge #lofi #ishootfilm #believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #streetphotography #lightleak

An old beige apartment building with metal exterior fire escape stairs; there's a orange light leak in the middle

Same building, with more perspective, with light leak on the left.

Christmas trees thrown out on the street with some snow on top; the nurses' strike is in the background.

Striking nurses holding protest signs by the street

@bk1e@pixey.org More Austin skyline, plus bonus parking lot

I can see next to nothing through the Rainbow Hawk-Eye's viewfinders, so my framing with that camera is pure guesswork.

Kodak No. 2 Rainbow Hawk-Eye (~100 year old box camera), Kodak TMAX 100
#ShittyCameraChallenge

A B&W portrait-orientation* photo of the Austin skyline showing the sail tower and way too much of the Palmer Event Center parking lot.

* This turned out to be a mistake

Space frog, Brownie edition

Kodak No. 2 Rainbow Hawk-Eye (~100 year old box camera), Kodak TMAX 100
#ShittyCameraChallenge #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography

B&W photo of a brick wall displaying a mural with the text "HI, HOW ARE YOU" over a drawing of a smiling space frog.

Savesies, Philadelphia 2025 Iloca Stereo 1a, 2x Jlitar 45mm 3.5, kentmere 100 (pyro 510) Wrapping up the 💩 challenge with a bang. This iloca is definitely a bit of a challenge. #BelieveInFilm #ShittyCameraChallenge

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