This winter I found this vintage Hit Camera at an antique store, a miniature camera you could buy out of the back of a comic book in the 1950’s!
The camera is designed to use miniature roll film which is no longer manufactured anywhere, so while I attempt to figure out how to make my own, I removed the camera’s lens and mounted it on my Sony A7S II via a hodgepodge of adapters and tape.
Here’s a video I made for Fotodiox showing how I did it.
And here are some of the strange and dreamy images I captured with the lens!
This lens was never meant for a film plane as large as my Sony’s full frame sensor, so it’s amazing that I was able to get pretty much full sensor coverage with it. I love how the lens treats bokeh around the edge of it’s image circle, stretching it to weird angular shapes. This is not a very sensible lens, but for creating a strange dreamy feel, especially on a dark winter night, it does the trick.