the Unstuck Diaries

funnily enough, I bought my sister a camera for Christmas. One of those reproduction Chinese toy cameras with a moulded plastic lens, light leaks, vague shutter, and all that. It shoots on 120 film, which I'm delighted to say you can still buy in Jessops. Though I did buy both rolls in the Glasgow store.

We got quite excited about the random element. Time will tell if we're right to be nostalgic, or only fooling ourselves.

My friend Monty, rakusen [dot] co [dot] uk, a photographer, has a £27,000 full plate full chip digital camera [which know doubt makes toast and butters it for you into the same bargain] and he also has a Japanese fairground camera which he uses when no one's looking. He often uses the images from the plastic camera, but you couldn't turn up at the Shell board room with just that, you need the £27,000 prop I guess.

oh, and I seem to remember that if you get Agfa 120 roll film, the little bit of sticky paper at the end of the roll which you use to hold everything tight while you take it into the dark room, tastes of peppermint. A nice touch.