Glass Eyes and Plastic

Photos I've shot recently with cheaply made and decades old film cameras. Plastic lenses, Russian glass, expired film, way much grain, light leaks, neglected focal lengths, multiple exposures, poor/blurry/soft focus, parallax error... Mostly manual. Limited aperture choices and often only one shutter speed. No digital foolproofing nor post-production sweetening. It's all happy accidents and deliberate mistakes. Even remembering the Sunny 16 rule only works a very small part of the time. Toy cameras pretty much do what they want. Vintage cameras make you think and look before clicking a shutter. Shooting with them is just going along for the ride. All photos by Dale Merrill

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