It’s been a few months since I got on a plane to go anywhere off-continent, and that being the case, I was flipping through these pictures from Chile this past spring break I scanned in from the Golden/Half. They sell for about $40-50 USD depending on where you buy them, and are super unobtrusive and easy to take covert pictures with. Since they double the roll capacity of any film you use with them, they’re pretty economical, too. Unfortunately, way too often I find myself forgetting to wind the film or take off the cap when I pass it off to someone else.

The camera gets really soft at the edges (and isn’t too sharp anywhere else for that matter), but I love the lomo toy-camera look all the scanned pictures have. Especially in bright light, there’s an out-of-world whimsy about them.

We ended up getting cheap seats at a South American soccer game…they come with free riot police.