Digital Toy Cameras • Non-Gaming • Photography • Eurogamer.net

wobbly_Bob 5 Jan 2010 18:02:26 5,162 posts
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Toy cameras are normally associated with cheap n crappy film cameras. The idea is to get back to basics and it be just about the image not about any fancy stuff. The idea is it makes us better photographers and plus half the fun is the imperfections you get, for example an off colour scale and vigetting - you never know quite what you are going to get. I don't see why though that the same ideals can't be applied to digital cameras like those little key ring cameras, mobile phone cams ( although some can be really good ) or just really weird cheap compacts. So what do you think? How would you define a digital toy camera? How many megapixels, cost, and so on? Or would you say to be a film camera to be a toy camera and produce toy camera shots?

mal 5 Jan 2010 18:06:08 29,326 posts
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I once got a shot of the sunset with my mobile phone camera (VGA!) that I was vaguely pleased with. It's all about the colour.

BillMurray 5 Jan 2010 18:09:00 9,736 posts
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Surprised Lomo haven't done something already and charged a fortune for it.

smoothpete 5 Jan 2010 18:11:35 37,743 posts
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The iPhone is a toy camera, or can copy the effects of genuine film toy cameras. But anything digital is cheating

Fake_Blood 5 Jan 2010 18:14:47 11,093 posts
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There's a difference between lomo shots and cheap vga cmos shots.
But if you're going to build a cheap digital camera, like the lomo, give it a wide angle lens.

otto Moderator 5 Jan 2010 18:17:46 49,322 posts
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Uh there are loads of toy digital cameras!

Canon DSLRs for a start

/runs

wobbly_Bob 5 Jan 2010 18:24:20 5,162 posts
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@Murray - yeah me too.

@smoothpete - I have an Android Pulse which has a really very crappy camera so in my book it makes it ideal toy cam. I have a program on it that copys toy cams and even better you can set it up to randomly do funky stuff like at random funky stuff. I really like it, but is it really a toy cam? I would say yes because the camera is crappy to start off with and I'm not actually tweaking my shots - it's all random shit. What do you think?

BTW you can see a shot I took with it toy cam

wobbly_Bob 5 Jan 2010 18:26:20 5,162 posts
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@otto - Well, if my Canon is a toy camera is bloody cost to much :-D

otto Moderator 5 Jan 2010 18:37:32 49,322 posts
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Yeah well the Canon thing was just a lame joke, but you can pick up [link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/IMC-Toys-900868-Digital-Camera/dp/B0013NK1FW/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=kids&qid=1262716502&sr=1-7">real toy digital cameras or just a

jellyhead 5 Jan 2010 18:47:53 24,356 posts
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�13 Digital Camera/Camcorder at lloyds pharmacy. 2xAA batteries and only 300x600 pixels

wobbly_Bob 5 Jan 2010 18:54:52 5,162 posts
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Feking hell! lol Great! That's the kinda thing I'm looking for. Just scoping Ebay for some crappy funky stuff and found this lol I'm looking out for one of those key chain cameras you used to get but havent found any yet! Will keep searching :-D

@Otto - yeah I took it as a joke - no worries! The Star Wars camera is cool, but I worry it might actually take half decent shots lol

otto Moderator 5 Jan 2010 19:04:50 49,322 posts
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wobbly_Bob 5 Jan 2010 19:28:29 5,162 posts
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Not sure, *ahem*, that the pink is really me but otherwise just what I am looking for! :-)

I found a really crappy keyring cam on ebay that I'm keeping an eye on... 99p at the mo!