Brian Auer on Epic Edits has started a photo project, The <$50 Film Camera - read up on the rules on his blog an participate! The project is sponsored by ILFORD Photo and Lomography, and you can win nice prizes… and fame perhaps? ;)

These are the rules in short:

1. Get a film camera for at most $50
2. Shoot some film
3. Write a review
4. Publish a photo of the camera
5. Publich a roll of photos
6. Submit you link to Epic Edits

I will try to participate. Now I just need to choose which camera to use from my shelf! After all, most of them costs less then $50. I’m leaning towards a Yashica rangefinder or SLR, Zenit SLR or Minolta rangefinder.

Minolta Hi-Matic F

Need a battery for you Yashica Electro? Yashica Guy makes an adapter so you can use modern batteries in your Electro-camera. I guess in the long run, it’s easier then to try to find replacements.

For my Yashica Minister D I found the right batteries (PX 625) in a swedish officeshop, I think they also used this model to calculators and stuff.

Oh, and for Yashica owners I added this page to the links the other day.

Yashica Minister D

The other day I went in to town and tried some streetphoto. I’m not very good at photograph strangers like that, and didn’t wan’t to much attention. Therefore the little modest, functional and quite cool Minolta Hi-Matic F I got from my in-laws came really handy. Small, easy focus, some autmatic exposure, fits in one hand. Nice… I took a couple of rolls Kodak Tri-X (black and white) with this, will show results when back from lab.

Minolta Hi-Matic F

Minolta Hi-Matic F on a brake, with Coffee