Shooting with effect - Canon EOS 300 (Analog Camera)

Hi people of the APUG forum,

I've recently purchased a Canon EOS 300 analog camera, mainly because I'll have to design a 'analog' magazine about society in the Netherlands. I do have experience shooting with digital camera's, but not with analog camera's. I've read about a lot of cool effects for disposable camera's and was wondering if there are any interesting effects for analog photography. (disposable camera effects I'm talking about - http://content.photojojo.com/diy/ten-creative-ways-to-use-disposable-cameras/ )

Thanks in advance for any hints, tips and tricks!

Rowin

Welkom bji Apug!

Disposable cameras are part of the analogue world. Thus I do not understand your issue (you know about disposable cameras and are asking about similar in the analogue world).

AgX said:

Disposable cameras are part of the analogue world. Thus I do not understand your issue (you know about disposable cameras and are asking about similar in the analogue world).

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Like I said, I'm new to analog photography and just got an analog camera - Canon EOS 300. I've got no experience with this camera and was wondering if there are ways to shoot with effect (like how putting a disposable camera in the freezer gives a special effect to the photo's - which of course, I won't do with this camera.

You may search 'Lomography'.

You can try some plastic lens from them in EF mount and along with their films.

Your Canon EOS 300 has the ability to take multiple exposure photographs (up to 9 images imposed on one frame of film). You can also put a cheap UV filter on the front of the lens and smear it with something like Vaseline to get a soft focus, blurred effect or cut a shape out of dark card (e.g. a star, heart, diamond, etc) to change the shape of the out of focus areas of your image. There are 'specialty' filters to create split images or colour your image with rainbows (assuming you're using colour film) or turn bright lights into stars.
Since you spoke of not wanting to put your camera in the freezer or other potentially camera-damaging things suggested in the PhotoJoJo article you linked to, you can simply do those things to the film itself - I'd suggest AFTER you've taken your photos. People have put their film through the dishwasher, etc. in an attempt to get weird aberrations. You can also scratch up your negatives AFTER they've been developed, although if you're wanting precise "damage" you're probably better off using a camera that will result in a larger negative. From the effects you wrote about, I can see a Holga in your future - easy to modify, cheap enough to trash, medium format negatives

I'm sure there are a million other things, but there's a little list to start with. I hope it helps give you some ideas.

You might want to check out the Revolog line of distressed films as well as Lomography's lineup of mixed up color films. Also, Lomography has some lenses that might be of interest like the EOS adapter to use their Diana lenses.

20 year old slide film.

In Nederland you are able to find several books on "Effekten" in Dutch and English at used book stores.