I have been receiving some interest from some of my readers about this Jelly Camera I keep posting about.  Main interest is where to buy it.  As I am a nice person (???  ) and I hold no secrets I will share this with you all…

The place to buy this little jelly camera, is ebay (Link Here).  Also a Barbie version is available on Amazon (Link Here). The Barbie version is the same as the one on ebay with the exception that it has the Barbie brand and also comes with a flash.

But before you decide to be a devil and buy it here is just a little advice and thoughts about this camera:

1.  It’s very girly.  So guys perhaps this may not be for you ! 

2.  It’s flimsy and low quality, gentle handling is recommended.  My shutter button broke after two uses but it’s still somewhat use-able with careful pressing.  The film advance also broke but this can be (if I am ever bothered) fixed with a bit of superglue.  Basically it’s all cheap plastic so don’t expect it to last too long with regular use.  Although, the camera is inexpensive so if it breaks it wont burn a hole in your pocket too much !

3.  Just as with any toy camera it has a set aperture and shutter speed so you wont have any control.  This one with an aperture of F9 and shutter speed about 1/120sec.  It has a plastic lens (good for soft focused photos).  My advice though if you are after fairly good exposed frames in bright sunny conditions is to use a slower film of ISO 125 or below, otherwise your frames may end up overexposed and almost useless, I say almost useless because with bit of creativity overexposed frames make interesting and cool photos. 

4.  Don’t expect to do any multiple exposures with this camera, there is no option.  However, you could reuse your film which I tend to do and do get some interesting frames.  Technically reusing your film is double exposing but one problem with this (although it’s not problem for me ) is that your frames are overlapped and somewhat messy.

5.  It only takes 35mm film.  Those that prefer using 120 film then this camera is not for you and there is no way, as far as I can see, to modify it, unless your willing to cut your 120 to size which just wouldn’t make sense.

6.  As mentioned in point 3 above this is a toy camera, meant for a child, so there is a severe lack of camera control.  But, don’t this lack hinder you as there are ways to gain some control over your exposures with a bit of imagination and experimentation.  For example, use of filters… sunglasses, clear coloured candy wrappers (yes candy wrappers), stained plastic.  Basically… experiment, experiment and experiment and you will be rewarded with some cool images ! 

Finally… whichever toy camera you choose, be it a Jelly, Holga, Diana or whatever, just have fun ! And keep on shooting beautiful photos !