What?
Super panorama camera that turns it's whole camera body on a handle. Horizonal angle of 360° and vertical angle of 66°. You can fit about 8 pictures on a roll. Shutter speeds of about 1/125 to 1/250 seconds, you can slow this by hand. Aperture: f/8 (cloudy) en f/16 (sunny). There's a spirit level on top of it.
When?
Since 2011.
How
I bought it.
Well?
This camera is a lot of fun. I didn't think much of it at first, but eventually I bought one anyway on a whim. A good decision, since it's a brilliant toy. The spinning top is fun, and the pictures it produces are wonderful. The regular pics are cool, and so are the vertical panorama's. The pictures look good in both color and black and white. Redscale tends to be a bit too slow I think, my pictures turned out rather unexposed.
You can pull the string to take a picture, or spin the camera by hand for slower shutter speeds. By hand works well inside, when the automatic setting is too fast, and leads to underexposed pictures. You can spin much slower by hand, thus getting enough light on your picture.
In theory you can make a so called time scan by holding the camera body and letting the handle spin. That hasn't worked for me so far, all I get are blurry stipes on my negatives. More experiments are needed, I guess.
The only disadvantage is thet you're in the picture yourself, most of the times (unless you hold the camera over your head or something). You may be confronted with your own silly face when taking a picture...
