Pop Cam Roll 1

A few months ago, I made a "want" purchase vs. a "need" purchase, and bought a little toy camera called the Pop Cam.  As you all know, I'm pretty much obsessed with documenting my life through photos and thought this camera would provide some fun little photos to document my summer.  (Plus. it was only $10.00!  Uh, Score!)  Here's a picture of the Pop Cam for your viewing pleasure.  :)

It takes four pictures within a 1 second span, and each photo is tinted.  Your final photo is four tinted photos within a photo.  WOW, pretty sure that was the worst possible explanation ever.  :) Moving on....

Now, I am not a photographer by any means and have no desire to be such, but I've wanted to dabble in film for a while now and thought this would be a great and CHEAP way to do it.  I just got my first roll back and I was really happy with the results.  Here's just a few things I learned from this first round:

1.  The Pop Cam is a CHEAP camera.  It is $10.00 and you surely get $10.00 worth of camera.  But honestly, this didn't bother me much at all.  As long as you're not throwing it on the ground and treating it like garbage, you'll be good.

2.  There is no flash on this camera, so it is VERY important that you take pictures outside on a SUNNY day.  I took a few photos inside and you can't see a thing (as you'll see from my examples below).

3.  If perfection is your game, this is NOT the camera for you.  There is a "viewfinder" on the camera, but honestly, it's pretty useless.  There's really no way of knowing how your picture is going to turn out.  This would bother some, but I love it!

Here"s my first roll.  These haven't been photo shopped at all, so it's a pretty good indication of what the cameras capabilities are.  What do you think?