Illustration of Derek Powazek by Adam Ellis

Haight Street, Focus Free

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A friend moved away a while back and gifted us a box of random stuff: some frames, a couple speakers, and a Vivitar "Focus Free" PN2011 camera. It’s a plastic 35mm point and shoot. I took it for a spin today on Haight Street with some nice 400asa Fuji film.

It’s a very “cheap and cheerful” kinda of camera. Fixed focus, no batteries, plastic lens. It doesn’t have the severe vignetting (or even basic exposure controls) of the Lomo LC-A, but it does have is a switch that flips it between panoramic and normal modes. Panoramic simply inserts little plastic flaps to crop down the image – I didn’t use it.

So far, so fun.


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