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user-inactivated · 3178 days ago · link · · parent · post: Some Pretty Crappy Pictures of Three Pretty Okay, Not Really Awesome Cameras (Except one of them is actually pretty cool)
It's strange to me how the line between impractical-cool and impractical-you-hipster seems completely arbitrary but so many of us draw it in about the same place. Make some daguerreotypes? That's awesome! Palladium prints by inverting a digital photo and printing it on an overhead transparency? Cheating, but neat! Use a TLR? You hipster.2) That's a TLR or Twin Lens Reflex camera. They're horrible. They're the Hipster's Hipster's camera. At least, that's my opinion. They're the sort of thing you use when you want to shoot on gigantic film (they take 120/220) but don't want to spend any money on lenses. The one the hipsters like the best is the Rolleiflex which can still be yours for a mere six grand.