Category: snapshots

The NOMO app has an assortment of interesting cameras. Many aren’t worth a second look, some are gimmicky, some, like the half-frame PEN I use for fractured landscapes, are useful. Some can simply be a blast to play with once in awhile.

This is one of those. In 1956 a Chinese company, Tianjian, introduced a simple medium format camera they called Happiness Type 1. The name is a bit cheesy if you ask me, but hey – I like the color.

A simulation of the large format wet plate cameras used by Jackson and O’Sullivan and others back in the old days, right here in my phone. Is it an everyday camera? No. Fun to play around with now and then? Hell yes…