Photographer Challenges Herself To Shoot With A $1 Camera, Here Are The Results

When Skyler Adams realized she was more obsessed with buying new expensive gear than actually taking photographs, she decided to do an experiment. She bought a Canon Sure Shot camera for $1 and an expired roll of Fujifilm Superia 400 film. “I wanted to challenge my gear acquisition syndrome, so I decided to shoot with a $1 camera for a month,” she wrote.

„I was pleasantly surprised at the quality I could get from the 38mm lens stopped down,“ Skyler said on PetaPixel. „The manual ISO setting also let me play with exposure compensation. Most of the battle is finding good light.“ Film processing and scanning was $8 more, so Skyler spent $10 for the whole experiment.

There is a common misconception that you need expensive gear to take great pictures. However, Skyler successfully proved that even the cheapest equipment can provide amazing images if you have the required skills.

More info: Instagram | Cover Image: flickr (h/t: petapixel)

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Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

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Mark Roy 8 years ago

You know what would be a challenge? Buying that camera anywhere for $1.

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Sean Brassman 8 years ago

$35 seems to be the going rate for a tested working unit: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B004R7U4JE/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

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Jerilyn Balonan 8 years ago

am I the only one who.thinks the photos are mediocre?

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Benny Lava 8 years ago

At best...

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Heather Alisse 8 years ago

exactly! as soon as you say you're a photographer suddenly boring photos are works or art... those wouldn't get any likes on my Facebook page ;)

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Thuong Vu 8 years ago

The compositions are excellent, but poor lens quality affects the quality immensely. Don't go for any extreme. Take a quality but affordable camera body then spend all the rest money on the best lens money can buy, and you will not be disappointed.

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Strega Nera 8 years ago

I also dont like them. And for the record, the composition on all except the one with the park isn't good. And that one has burns in the background. You simply need a camera where you can work the settings, to achieve quality. That's a photographer, a person with knowledge how to make his camera serve his view. All of this here is just lazy and pretentious.

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Clayton Adams 8 years ago

Possibly the only one.

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Yvonne Bernal 8 years ago

I think the photos say more about the photographer than they do about the camera

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Sean Brassman 8 years ago

I agree and think that's the point.

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Mark Roy 8 years ago

You know what would be a challenge? Buying that camera anywhere for $1.

63points

Sean Brassman 8 years ago

$35 seems to be the going rate for a tested working unit: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B004R7U4JE/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

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Jerilyn Balonan 8 years ago

am I the only one who.thinks the photos are mediocre?

43points

Benny Lava 8 years ago

At best...

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Heather Alisse 8 years ago

exactly! as soon as you say you're a photographer suddenly boring photos are works or art... those wouldn't get any likes on my Facebook page ;)

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Thuong Vu 8 years ago

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Strega Nera 8 years ago

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Clayton Adams 8 years ago

Possibly the only one.

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Yvonne Bernal 8 years ago

I think the photos say more about the photographer than they do about the camera

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Photographer Challenges Herself To Shoot With A $1 Camera, Here Are The Results

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