Nons SL660 + Lensbaby
I’ve been playing around with the Nons SL660 Instax Square camera combined with my old Lensbaby lens lately and really enjoying it so I thought I’d write a little post about why....
If you follow me on Instagram (@juliankaifilm) or here you’ll know I’m really loving the Nons SL660 camera. I’ve been wanting a full manual Instax camera for a long time and Nons have done a great job with the SL660 and the fact that it has interchangeable lens’ is the icing on the cake (see earlier post for more on the Nons)
I bought the Lensbaby a long time ago and only ever really played with it a few times on my digital camera. It was a bit of fun but of limited use as i don’t tend to shoot digital for my more ‘artistic creative’ work.
The Lensbaby allows you to tilt the lens thereby controlling and manipulating the Depth of Field in creative and unusual ways.
For me this comes into it’s own when shooting instant film but Ive never had an instant camera (apart from my lovely Polaroid 600SE) that had interchangeable lens’... until Nons came along.
What I used to love about using ‘Impossible Project’ film back in the day was that you never really knew what you’d get as they strived to get the chemistry etc. right. It’s slowly got better and better and they stuff they produced as ‘Polaroid Originals’ and now ‘Polaroid’ is pretty good (tho I’ve not shot any for a while since my SX70s are both broken).
But I loved the artistic photos you’d get from the imperfections. If I wanted perfectly sharp images with accurate colour I’d shoot digital!
Instax can also be too ‘good’ so adding the Lensbaby really helps create that lomo Holga imperfect feel to the photographs.
These phone ‘scans’ don’t the photos justice (especially with those dust spots!)
Was hoping to post a few more photos but Tumblr say NO for some reason! So I’ll post them separately here and over on my Insta.
Looking forward to trying this combo with colour film.