Restrictions and the freedom they bring: Lomography Simple Use Camera

Sometimes you don’t really need much. Sure it’s nice to be carrying around an slr or rangefinder on holiday. Knowing your lighting is being expertly metered or you’ve been waiting to try out that new wide angle lens in a city you’ve never visited before.

But somewhere along the way you get bogged down by the burden of choice.

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Yashica Electro-35 GT

There are some entries in my collection that exist because they were found. This camera I actively sought out. Back when I was addicted to Tumblr I came across some amazing work that was shot exclusively using the Yashica Electro-35. As this was very early on on my collection, I became obsessed with this camera thinking “I can take photos like that if I had that camera” of course now I realise while a camera can have certain distinctive characteristics, the camera actually had very little to do with the images in comparison to the photographer who shot them.

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