#shittycamerachallenge — Public Fediverse posts
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Was already planning to lend @[email protected] the Fed 5b in July/August. Now I can make him participate in the #ShittyCameraChallenge, too! Perfect!! 😄😄😄😄🤷♂️🤷♂️
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A little later than I had planned, but here's a few photos. There's two shot on 🎞️Kodak TMax 400 with 📷 Baldy the Baldax and two shot on 🎞️Ilford FP4+ 125 with my 📷 Agfa isolette for #FolderWeek
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Another low red photo, this time of my faculty. The place where I learn, work, and will most likely die.
#shittycamerachallenge
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Here you go! Some of the terrible camera + terrible film + developed in coffee + scanned on a 30-year-old computer! #ShittyCameraChallenge #BelieveInFilm
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Folder Week is here! To celebrate vintage folding cameras I have loaded a roll of 🎞️ TMax 400 in 📷 Baldy the Baldax and a roll of 🎞️ Ilford FP4 in my 📷 Agfa Isolette.
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How about some terrible cheap aliexpress film dragged through a terrible ‘underwater’ point and shoot camera, developed in coffee? The film is ecn2 with the horrible remjet layer so doesn’t work in standard chemicals. But there’s something in the caffenol that’s angry enough to mostly deal with it. Will see if there’s anything worth scanning once it’s dry in the morning :D
#ShittyCameraChallenge
#BelieveInFilm
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Sending you some #ShittyCameraChallenge love too!
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Look ma, no hands! Scenes from a bike (cont’d), Philadelphia 2026 Charmera, pixel mode #ShittyCameraChallenge #PhillyBike
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Scenes from a bike. Philadelphia 2026 Charmera, pixel-mode #ShittyCameraChallenge #BikePhilly
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We Are Severely Under-Reacting, Philadelphia 2026 Kodak Charmera, Pixel Mode Seen at a street corner on campus. #ShittyCameraChallenge
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Self Portrait for April 1st, 2026.
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Entryway, Philadelphia 2026 Charmera, handheld stereo pair #ShittyCameraChallenge
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Fractured, Philadelphia 2026 #Charmera + little handheld kaleidoscope toy #ShittyCameraChallenge
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Low-fi info stand, Valley Forge PA 2026 Charmera hand-held stereo pair in Pixel Mode. #StereoPair #ShittyCamerachallenge
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I grabbed a free camera (a Canon PowerShot Pro1) off Freecycle, picked up a non-sketchy replacement battery from a local store for 30 dollars, and took it out for a walk today to learn how to use it.
I know this technically would have qualified for the #shittycamerachallenge, but it really does take nice photos! The 8x optical zoom is double what my cell phone can do, and the sensor is a comparatively massive 2/3. It's fun to mess around with.
Spotted this #graffiti, which I like.
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My cat Abo on 0.1MegaPixels!!!
I did a silly thing and bought an old webcam/digital camera.
It can store just 38 "high definition" photos (352x288), or 152 low definition (176x144) photos.
I hope I can take at leas a few cool photos with this.
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#ShittyCameraChallenge
Taken with and old MP5 with a camera of 0.3Mpx -
Sun & railway tracks #filmCan #pinhole #FOMAPAM #C311 165 days #longexposure postprocessing #GIMP #pinholephotography #estenopeica #BWphoto #photography @[email protected] #shittycamerachallenge #landscape #sunpath #railway
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Exaggerated perpective, Philadelphia 2026 Stereo #Charmera I think I got a little carried away with my manual base shift, but the effect is neat. Or does your head in. 😅🤷♂️ #ShittyCameraChallenge
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Vertigo, Philadelphia 2025 Kodak #Charmera Stereo pair in high contrast mode. #ShittyCameraChallenge
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175 days over the river Two FilmCan #pinhole, two positions, C311 #FOMA paper both #solrargraphy #sunpath #photography #ShittyCameraChallenge @[email protected] @[email protected]
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In Austin, today is Hi, How Are You Day, in memory of Daniel Johnston and to promote discussion of mental health.
Photo from June 2024. Holga 120N, Kodak Gold 200.
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I've been making these little fake "contact sheets" with photos from my heat printer camera. This set was a selection from my Southwest road trip last year. Lots of lovely contrasty landscapes!
#Photography #landscapephotography #shittycamerachallenge #art #HeatPrinterCamera #southwest #desert #sedona #nationalparks
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And here it is. Little bit (by the water) damaged #photopaper, but still nice. 365 days #solargraphy taken by #beerCan #pinhole #photography @[email protected] @[email protected] #longExposure #ShittyCameraChallenge
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Discovery, Udvar-Hazy Center, Virginia 2025 Fujifilm S1 Pro, Sigma 10-20 4-5.6, Trichrome #ShittyCameraChallenge #TrichromeParty #BlackAndWhiteTie (but make it color)
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Udvar-Hazy, Virginia 2025 Fujifilm S1 Pro, Sigma 10-20 4-5.6 Post holiday visit to the coolest museum in the world. #ShittyCameraChallenge #TrichromeParty #BlackAndWhiteTie (but make it color)
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Dystopic, Philadelphia 2025 Fuji S1 Pro, Sigma 10-20 4-5.6 #ShittyCameraChallenge #WayNo
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Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia 2025 Fujifilm S1 Pro, Sigma 10-20, Ir Trichrome I have conflicting feelings about this one. 🤷♂️ #ShittyCameraChallenge #BlackAndWhiteTie (but make it color) #LaurelHill
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Art Nouveau, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia 2025 Fuji Finepix S1 Pro, Sigma 10-20, Ir Trichrome Beautiful mausoleum overlooking the river, sadly built for a boy who died in 1918. #ShittyCameraChallenge #BlackAndWhiteTie (but make it color) #LaurelHill
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Charles A. “Chaz” Alligood (d.1890), Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia 2025 Fujifilm S1 Pro, Sigma 10-20, Ir Trichrome A captain in the union army during the Civil War, later a member of the local G.A.R. Post. #ShittyCameraChallenge #BlackAndWhiteTie (but make it color) #LaurelHill
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Filling The Gaps: The Kodak Charmera, A Keychain Digital Camera
It’s the ‘must have’ camera of late 2025, so of course, I must have one. The Kodak Charmera is a small ‘keychain’ camera. As many have observed, it’s small. Just a few cm long and maybe 15mm wide, the Charmera has a 1.6MP sensor and a tiny little screen. The controls are minimal, an on/off button, which also doubles as a menu button, the shutter button, and three buttons on the back. One for playback/select items and two toggle buttons that cycle through the different filters.
There’s no shutter speed selection, which is fixed at around 1/30s, and pressing the shutter makes a synthesised shutter sound that’s not all that loud, so sometimes you’re not actually sure if an image has been taken. Images are stored on a microSD card (not included), and apparently it’ll accept cards up to 32GB. Since file sizes are relatively small, I’m running my Charmera off a 1GB microSD card filched from the cheap Photo Creator MiniCam. That’s enough room for thousands of images, although I tend to download mine after each outing with the camera.
The appeal of the Charmera is it’s lo-fi aesthetic, although the Shitty Camera Challenge community have pounced on it as a ‘normal’ Shitty-compliant camera, to great effect. Other in the US, everyone seemed to be getting them, but over here in Europe they’re much hard to get. Also, there’s a premium, the $30 Charmera is more like 40—50€, depending on where you shop. They also run out really quickly. Fortunately, I managed to nab two from the second run in November, and have a third on order at the moment.
There are six different designs of the Charmera, with a seventh transparent design as a ‘special’, and they’re sold in ‘blind’ boxes, so you don’t actually know which one you’ve got until you open the box. This is kind of half the fun, the rest is fiddling around with the camera. On the bottom of the device, next to the microSD card slot, is a USB-C socket for charging the camera or transferring files. I have a recent Android phone and it’s easy to transfer files from the Charmera to my phone, though apparently with some older phones this is not that straightforward.
So how does it perform? Not too shabbily really. It’s definitely better than the Photo Creator MiniCam, another keychain camera that I picked up recently, although actually taking a photo takes practise. Instead of pushing the shutter firmly, you just need to tap the button to take an image. Colour images came out nicely, though there’s nothing too exciting about them, but a lot more fun can be had with the filters. Like a lot of users, I’ve settled with the ‘grey’ filter, which is a two-tone grey and black image. There are a number of these, red, blue, and yellow, but I like the grey one.
One thing I did wonder, as I do with all my cameras, is what it’s infrared sensitivity is like. The Charmera is a cheap camera, and I hoped that this cheapness extended to the IR cut filter used on this little camera. I set the camera to black and white, held a 720nm infrared filter over the lens (and covered the’flash’ LED to prevent any light interference), and took a snap. It was great! At the same time I took black and white images with red, green, and blue filters, to make digital aerochromes and trichromes. These came out pretty darned good, too.
So what next for the Charmera? I bought two when I could get my hands on them, and have just added a third. My original Charmera I’m going to keep in its natural state, aside from covering the flash. The second I’m hoping to open up and remove the IR cut filter to make it truly full-spectrum. All being well that’ll be the subject of a future post. The third, still in its box, is hopefully to be used for a ‘thing’ that I have in mind that I’m not going to talk about yet in case it doesn’t happen.
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#Abstract #Charmera #Experimental #Infrared #Kodak #KodakCharmera #LoFi #Retro #Shittycamerachallenge #ToyCamera #VintageVibes
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Is this #InstantRegret or more of a Medium Term Regret?!?? Changing temperatures and moisture levels in my office caused this emulsion lift from 2023 to fail! 🥶😥 I #BelieveInFilm but… #ShittyCameraChallenge Fail
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Is this #InstantRegret or more of a Medium Term Regret?!?? Changing temperatures and moisture levels in my office caused this emulsion lift from 2023 to fail! 🥶😥 I #BelieveInFilm but… #ShittyCameraChallenge Fail
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Is this #InstantRegret or more of a Medium Term Regret?!?? Changing temperatures and moisture levels in my office caused this emulsion lift from 2023 to fail! 🥶😥 I #BelieveInFilm but… #ShittyCameraChallenge Fail
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Is this #InstantRegret or more of a Medium Term Regret?!?? Changing temperatures and moisture levels in my office caused this emulsion lift from 2023 to fail! 🥶😥 I #BelieveInFilm but… #ShittyCameraChallenge Fail
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Is this #InstantRegret or more of a Medium Term Regret?!?? Changing temperatures and moisture levels in my office caused this emulsion lift from 2023 to fail! 🥶😥 I #BelieveInFilm but… #ShittyCameraChallenge Fail
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Proof of life! All hail the elder gods!! 🔥🔥🔥 This camera probably hasn’t made an image in 40 years?! Good thing I had an expired shot of instax wide left in my 800! 😅😅😅 #BelieveInFilm #ShittyCameraChallenge #InstantRegret
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I thought I’d get a jump on the #ShittyCameraChallenge by popping the lovely(?) Fed 5b in my bag to shoot with as I walked across campus today. But I managed to only grab color film on my way out the door! 😅🤦♂️🤦♂️ #BelieveInFilm #NoTheOtherFilm #CameraGear
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@FotoVorschlag
'Kugelrund' / 'spherical' #FotoVorschlag
crossover with #ShittyCameraChallenge / #CrappyCommieCameraParty📷 Samsung NX500 + Industar 61L/Z-MS :darktable:
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So here a proper #ShittyCameraChallenge / #CrappyCommieCameraParty contribution... to get me deported.
📷 Samsung NX500 + Industar 61L/Z-MS :darktable:
Guess why it's called indu-STAR!
#SamsungNX #Industar #photography #Fotografie #ThisIsfine #darktable
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So the #ShittyCameraChallenge was reborn as #CrappyCommieCameraParty from June 1st to August 31st.
Seems like @ShittyCameraChallenge lost his credentials and is only active on bsky, but we can party like it's 1991 on masto as well! (Anyway, every party member knows that Mastodon is communism and bsky is capitalism!)
Even if my only lens is the Industar / Индустар 61L/Z-MS produced in 1986, and shooting digital will get me sent to Siberia.
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Same image printed on a Panasonic 24pin #dotmatrix (via CUPS and a #raspberrypi3
Maybe we need a #shittyprinterchallenge ;)
#shittycamerachallenge(it does look a bit better on paper vs the scan. A little bit!)
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Christ Church (Old Swedes), Swedesburg (1760), PA 2025 Rollei A26, Verichrome Pan 125 (1980 exp.), Hc-110 dil. B 6.5min #BelieveInFilm #ShittyCameraChallenge #DeadFormat
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Stairwell, Philadelphia 2025 Rollei A26, Verichrome Pan 125 (1980 exp.), Hc-110 dil. B 6.5min #BelieveInFilm #ShittyCameraChallenge #DeadFormat
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Stairwell, Philadelphia 2025 Rollei A26, Verichrome Pan 125 (1980 exp.), Hc-110 dil. B 6.5min #BelieveInFilm #ShittyCameraChallenge #DeadFormat
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Stairwell, Philadelphia 2025 Rollei A26, Verichrome Pan 125 (1980 exp.), Hc-110 dil. B 6.5min #BelieveInFilm #ShittyCameraChallenge #DeadFormat
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Stairwell, Philadelphia 2025 Rollei A26, Verichrome Pan 125 (1980 exp.), Hc-110 dil. B 6.5min #BelieveInFilm #ShittyCameraChallenge #DeadFormat
