Cheap Cameras of Beauty

by Ryan Macalandag

I like to contradict myself.

Last week, we spoke about how buying an expensive lens can greatly improve the quality of the photos you take. With pro lenses, your photos become sharper, crispier and cleaner. Better lenses certainly improve quality but not the creativity and beauty of your photos.

However, cheap, plastic, toyish lomography cameras are revolutionizing the photographic landscape and quickly gaining fame in the artistic photography circles today. Each retro, distorted, grainy, photos that these el cheapo cameras churn out are little precious gems of beauty themselves that evoke feelings of joy, love, loneliness, quirk, nostalgia and everything else in between.

The general rule is: shoot from the hip. Ergo, don’t think, just shoot. If you want to create artsy photos yet could not manage to mess with camera settings and such, this is just about perfect for you.