A couple years ago I made a wide-angle pinhole instant film camera with a Diana Instax Mini back and some cardboard and tape. The film drive stopped working shortly after, and Lomography stopped selling the back, so I was stuck. That is, until I discovered the Jollyllok, a fully manual, very affordable cardboard Instax Mini camera. This Halloween I made a video where I modded the camera to a wide angle pinhole and shot some ghostly black and white instant portraits with it. Here’s the video showing how I did it.
And here are some of the portraits I shot with model Abby.
This is a hard camera to work with due to its crazy wide angle and the experimentation it demands to get the exposure time right, but I love the surreal, Lynchian imagery I’m able to create with it. Next stop: shooting some winter landscapes and architecture photos!