Konica WaiWai : Super Wide Disposable Camera

The Konica Wai Wai camera is one of those strange cameras that only the Japanese can imagine.

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Selling for less than $10 USD, this disposable camera has a 17mm ultra wide angle lens. There is a mirror attached around the lens for taking self-portraits. Taking self portraits with a whole bunch of people is great fun, and very easy. The camera has a fixed aperture of f/8 and fixed shutter speed at 1/100. A flash is included for indoor pictures (an absolute necessity).

The minimum in-focus distance is 40cm, which is somewhat limited for such a wide lens. For people pictures though, it’s perfect and produces very interesting effects.

There’s just one tiny little problem: this thing is disposable. Luckily, Konica has designed it well enough that people discovered a way to reload the film! It made me a bit nervous but the result was worth it.

http://www.konicawaiwai.com/

written by eva_eva on 2009-01-27 #gear #review #konica #toy-camera #disposable #waiwai #super-wide