For my birthday the lovely Lizzie bought me this rather silly looking “4 Lens Action Sampler”. It is essentially an unreasonably simple camera with 4 plastic lenses of fixed focussing distance. With the cameras single preset apature and shutter speed it is essentially a toy, but an absolutely excellent one.

The “Action Sampler” aspect comes from the fact that each square of the photo is taken with a slight time lapse from the last, hence the possibility of capturing motion. I seemed to universally suck at this on my first roll with the camera.

I think a lot of issues with the photos I took revolved around the lack of any kind of viewfinder. On the recommendation of Lizzie I took to using what has become known to me as the rather humerous “face-finder” technique. I.e. look at what you want to take a photo of, stick the camera in front of your face, and hope.

As you can see above though, this left my composition rather… iffy. Still all in all it was excellent fun, and I will be shooting another roll soon, maybe even in the dark: