Analogue photography and disposable cameras are having a huge renaissance right now, but buying film stock or disposables is a recurring cost. Instead of trying to get the film look with digital editing, you can attach a DispoStudio Swiss Army Lens to your mirrorless camera and get the visual imperfections like halos, vignetting and that typical soft look that makes disposable camera shots appealing.
Swiss Army Lens at a glance:
- Price: £87.70 / $117
- Focal Length: 28mm (x3)
- Aperture: f/11
- Focus Range: 1.5m to infinity (fixed focus)
- Material: PLA+
Much like disposable cameras, the Swiss Army Lens has a fixed focus, so you can focus from 1.5m to infinity. The wide 28mm focal length is ideal for a range of environments and subjects, such as travel photography or environmental portraits. With an f/11 aperture, you may need to crank up your ISO, but that will only add more film-like character to your shots.
There are three disposable camera lenses arranged in a horizontal line and with four adapters, which you can insert into the lens body to block out one or more lenses and create interesting effects, like “wiggling” 3D images, or overlap the scene in front of you. This design builds on DispoStudio’s previous two lenses, the basic 1-lensed DispoLens, and the TripleLens, which has three lenses just like the Swiss Army one, but instead of being arranged in a line, they form a triangle to create a prism-like overlapping effect.
The Swiss Army Lens is available in full-frame Sony E, Canon RF, Nikon Z, and Leica L-mount for £87.70 (around $117) on DispoStudio’s Etsy store.
Related reading:
- Top tips for how to get creative with analogue film photography
- How to do film photography on a budget
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