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I BOUGHT A COLORSPLASH CAMERA!!!



i'd been batting the idea around for about two months now and i finally just caved and did it.

my friends online immediately reacted to the news with a "what happened to your old camera?"

rest assured, i still have my real camera. i still use it. it still works to the best of my knowledge.
but this, this is just fun. this is a toy camera.
there's no adjustable lens to take care of.
there's no lcd screen and difficult cr2 batteries.
there's no automatic film advance or rewind.
there's no focus or aperture control or zoom.

its just a glossy white plastic capsule.
so why am i so excited about this? well...


primary cause for excitement is the unique colorsplash hotfoot flash, which sticks out from the side of the camera like an illuminated tumor
the bulb (which is powered by a simple AA battery) is surrounded by three gels. by simply rotating the wheel on the side, you can switch from a standard white flash to yellow, blue, or red, flooding your photographs with a new layer of energy:



next is the exposure settings. while not having any real shutter speed control, there are two settings, instant exposure and long exposure, in which the shutter remains open for as long as you hold the shutter release button down. this allows for the streams of light and the blurs and burns that i so love in my more aggressive photographs. what is truly innovative about this, however, is that in long exposure setting, the flash itself doesn't actually go off until the moment you release the button, allowing you to wave the camera around for as long as you like making a chaotic and fluid background, then steady your shot on the subject of the photograph and release. the flash will ensure that the final subject of the photo remains clear, awash in whatever color flash you so choose:



and finally, the sheer design of it. the thing is beautiful. small, smooth, glossy and white. retro and futuristic at the same time. how can someone not have fun when this silly little contraption is pointed at them? a small singular plastic unit lends itself to being jammed in my pocket and brought to social events and whatnot. also, having to wind the film manually allows for MULTIPLE EXPOSURES, which are always crazy and exciting.



so yeah, i ordered that today.
i should have it sometime next week.

this may not seem like much to everyone else, but another super cool thing to me abou tit after researching fun toy cameras i like is that this one uses 35mm film, which is ever so much easier to buy than medium format film or polaroid film.