INTRODUCTION

The Rollei is one of the many disposable 35mm film camera out there. The Rollei has the particularity of being loaded with classic black and white film instead of color.

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PERSONAL NOTES

The Rollei is one of the many disposable cameras available out there. They are not great optically, and they are not adequate for many situations, but...

Disposable cameras are very light, they are quite compact too. They do not need to focus, as they are designed to operate at an hyperfocal distance; usually, everything is in focus from 1 meter to infinity, it's usually marked on the back of the camera. Another thing is they do not attract too much attention. For all these reasons, they are pretty good for street photography, they just lack real image quality.

Some are limited to only outdoors, while some other have an integrated flash and can also be used indoors.

Usually, when the camera runs out of film, people bring their disposable cameras to the lab to process the film, but you can very easily open the camera yourself (just be sure to rewind the film inside the canister before opening the lights), and bring just the used film roll to the lab and keep the camera to reload it with another film! These "disposable" cameras can be reloaded many times. You can put black and white, color, tungsted balanced film with an orange (CTO) filter on the flash if it has one, you can do many experiments :-)

The good thing about disposable cameras is that they are cheap and they do not have any credibility, so if you can do great photos with one, you can do anything :-)

CONCLUSION

Disposable cameras are fun to experiment with, they can be very good tools to practice your eye without the need to have access to the good usual tools, meaning that if you can do great photos with a disposable cameras, you're one of us, that group of photographer who can do anything...

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