There’s a growing enthusiasm for lo-tech photography. In this age of photographic perfection, people a seeking an alternative to the mainstream and using cameras such as the Holga. A cheap plastic bodied, plastic lensed cameras that play havoc with the light rays before they hot the film. Basically a toy camera from the 1960’s. The images they create have wonderful softness, vignetting, and colour aberrations, but somehow, it all seems to work. Mike came around this evening with his new camera. A Lomo Action Sampler. Another toy camera, it takes four pictures in a second, all on one 35mm frame through 4 plastic lenses. Totally mad, great fun and very cheap too. Meanwhile, I’m thinking along similar lines. I acquired a cheap plastic 4x loupe on Monday. Dead useful for looking at slides or negs on a lightbox. But I shoved it in front of the 50mm lens of the DSLR to see what would happen. Well I like it. You might think it crazy to degrade the quality of a £1000+ camera in this way, but until the Holga D comes out, I’ll stick with my own brand of madness.