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Badass photographer Tread<\/a> has written a piece on toy camera photography for the May 2006 issue of Photoblogs magazine, and it go a little something like this:<\/p>\n

\nSo why now, when it is easier than ever to get a nice photograph and cheaper and simpler to print your own, have I became a near-Luddite photographically speaking? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an easy answer: I like the work I make with toy cameras more than anything I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done in the past 23 years of photohobbying. With toycameras, I am forced to think more about the shot, less about the camera\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s controls, more about what I want the photo to "say," less about the technical fluffery of so-called "good" photography. Any respected photographer will sing the same song, "It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the camera or the equipment that makes a good photo, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the person behind the camera…"\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Read article<\/a> at photoblogsmagazine.org<\/p>\n
When you’re done with the article, do yourself a favor and check out Tread’s portfolio site<\/a> and blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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