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I’m thinking to get a new camera, or actually, two cameras at the moment.
First, Holga 120CFN, which I cant help but fall in love with lomo square photos that it makes with 120 format film. Examples you can see on Ana’s tumblr. It took me alot of studies on internet to find out the features of each and every Holga model gives you. I know that it might be hard to develop 120 format films here (and in fact, it’s been AGES since we stopped using the old school film camera, no? We no longer go to photo shop unless to take a passport photo :P) just now I feel the itch with these lomography thing, and a Holga looks so fun to play with! It’s a toy camera afterall ^_^
I have to get Holga 135 film adapter kit as well in case I’d like to use normal 35mm film, and developing printing for regular format is cheaper too. Developing a film roll will be around RM5, and a RM7-RM8 to let them scan the negative and burn into a CD or your flash drive. It’s not about printing the photos yet. I learn that printing a 3R photo (regular size) is less than 40sen, but a square photo would cost you RM1 each! Then again, I can choose only best square pics to print. Yes, I need to print my photos! What’s the point of doing analog film photo if I keep only the digital images of its negative scans?
Holga close-up lens kit. I dont know why but I want to experiment with these :)
All above I’m getting from HolgaCamera.Net at USD73! (no, not buying yet, still holding on >.<)
And second, a digital compact. After my first Ben-Q digicam got broken, I’ve been using my 2mp Nokia camera phone for 2 years for all quick snaps and it’s been perfect (almost all pictures you’ve seen in this blog thanks to my Nokia). But it’s time I need a new proper camera. I found out these TZ models from Valerie who owns a TZ5, and the TZ series are best known for the superzoom, as I want great photos that are close to ones taken by a DSLR, minus the need to drag a bulky heavy camera bag along the way. I only need just a handy compat camera.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7 in brown. But this model was produced in 2009 so it’s hardly available now.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ8 in black or silver. No other color choice :( so unless I managed to get a brown TZ7, this will be my camera. Pricing is from RM1150 – the cheapest I found from someone at LYN forum. Probably will get this soon.
The Holga camera looks funny :)
Do you want to take a lot of pictures inside or at low light? I read a lot about cameras last year in the internet and they said that it the TZ does fantastic photos outside, but inside they have poor quality. Thas why I ended up with my Canon SX200is in the end (and because of the manual setting possibility). I had to decide between 3 cameras, the other would have been a fujifilm f70exr camera. But they are all now “old” cameras ;).
Mine is blue, didn’t want a black one either :).
I was considering Canon SX too, but it has a funny popup flash which I think I dont fancy :P otherwise I’ve known that Canon makes great photos (I used my aunty’s Canon long ago). And I do like bigger zoom that Canon has. Your camera is relatively more expensive than TZ models, right? Another plus point for TZ compared to Canon is the body looks like it’s comfortable to grip (I guess so).
All three had nearly the same prize, but tz was the “most” expensive. I went to a store to check wether I liked how to handle and how to grip. And again, nearly the same :)
Congrats to your new camera, I’m sure you’ll be happy with it. I guess all those cameras do good pictures in normal size, and who prints his pictures in poster size :D ?
lumix is a good camera :)