Ugly camera

This is the biggest, ugliest camera I’ve ever bought. I got it for a very good price second hand because the battery compartment has suffered a bit of corrosion. But it works fine. Once I’d figured out the right way to put the batteries in. Most devices put the springs against the negative terminal of the batteries. This doesn’t, leading to a bit of worrying while I worked that out. It’s an instant camera which takes quite large pictures. Hence the size and the ugliness. It comes with a funky close-up lens you can clip on the front so that you can get close to roses. I’m looking forward to taking it out and playing with it. It’s not got as many fun features as the Instant Square I got for Christmas. It doesn’t even have a self timer. But it does make nice large pictures. t

Using the Lomo Instax Square Camera Viewfinder

I love my Lomography Instax Square camera. But it does have its foibles. One of them is that the viewfinder is really hard to use. I totally understand why. The way that the picture has to come up through the top of the camera makes it impossible to put the viewfinder in the traditional place. But it does mean that when you’re taking close-ups it’s hard to work out what will be in the picture. However, it turns out that Lomo have done something to try and make it easier. But they don’t really tell you about it anywhere.

Above you can see the view through the viewfinder. You can see that there is a brighter part at the bottom right of the window. I think this is the region you should use when photographing things using the close up focus. Below is the result that I got taking a close-up picture with the viewfinder showing the view that you can see in the viewfinder above and I think the truncation just about lines up.