Thursday 19 July 2012





at the end of last year when i was stubbornly holding to the “all film all the time” tenant, bought a resesky/recesky/recesky build it yourself twin-lens camera kit. really couldn’t go wrong as the kit cost $10 with shipping included. thought about taking it to rio.

well actually i could go wrong as the kit came with broken parts. thought the camera cool as it was yellow until i realised that the yellow wasn’t light safe. wrote the company i bought it from and received replies that had the appearance of being run through google translate.

gave up. it was only $10. i re-gifted it.

found the same camera on another sight but this time it was all black - less hipster but functional i was hoping. for the luxury of having a camera that actually worked there was a surcharge of $2.00. again shipping was free.


was trying them out as i was having a hard time using dianas and holgas. to me it seems a bit odd to pay more for the film that is used in a camera than the camera itself and it was pretty much getting down to that. 

saw blackbird fly cameras - in colour - but again $110 this seemed destined for the urban outfitters set. like the blackbird fly camera i had qualms with the resesky/recesky which to make it more marketable was called the holga resesky/recesky it seems that holga is needed to add validity to this type of camera. the main one being that it makes vertical snaps. the instructions say that there is an eyelevel finder built in but my chinese isn’t what it used to be and cannot seem to be able to figure out how to use it.

put the camera together a month ago but it sat. it sat with film in it until bored and knowing that i would be away from film i tried it out. the excuse was to add more options to my class in the autumn as the gulf between technologies grows.

it was like having a diana again. because  there is no film counter, i had to watch this spinning dial on the side. i even had to remember how many snaps i had taken. the spinning dial works sort of. if i press down on the back while advancing the film it functions perfectly. if not there are long periods before the dial moves. needless to say the spacing between frames can be highly varied. it leaks light - occasionally - not like the true dianas - not the lomography ones. but it was rare. no need to tape up the cameras.

frames can be overlapped. there is a nice vignetting. apertures can be changed but the lens has to be dismantled and placed back in the camera  which could effect the focus if one actually tried to make the focus calibration accurate.

i am used to a wide angle lens so the more “normal” focal length was a bit claustrophobic for me. i could see the camera as a documenter of things.

bought two more.



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