Step into our time machine and let’s go back to the awesome days of 1996. South Africa gets a new constitution, “Braveheart” wins the Oscar for Best Picture, Seal’s “Kiss from a Rose” wins a Grammy for record of the year, and Steve Jobs is hired back to a company called Apple. Oh, and a brand new film format called the “Advanced Photo System” is introduced to the public at large.

Remember that? Actually, we haven’t seen much of APS film these days. About 10 years later, almost no new APS cameras are being produced and only a handful of films are still made. The camera you see before you is a relic from APS film’s twilight years – a compact disposable cam loaded in 2003. Featuring a pop-up flash, each camera is loaded with 25 shots of ISO400 color APS film. As the film is quite expired, you’ll notice slightly jacked up-color saturation, film grain, and color balance shift towards magenta. This results in very-saturated, somewhat grainy & lo-fi, pretty damn contrasty, but still natural-looking prints. It’s like cross-processing lite. Not to mention, your developer should give you a handy index print back with your new batch of APS photos. Huzzah!

These Konica cams are brand-new deadstock, and quantities are limited. Needless to say, this beauty has been out of production for years. Although new APS cams are increasingly impossible to find, development is still quite easy – and should be available even at your corner drug store. Pick up an individual cam, or buy several to save some serious pesos.

We hear you out there. The demand for do-it-yourself pinhole kits has quickly risen to a thundering pitch, and we’re scrambling to test and offer as many as we can. In the course of our travels, we happened upon this little beauty. Crafted in Japan, the STD-135 is in a league of its own. As with all things pinhole, you’ll get dreamy soft focus images with straight wide-angle lines and endless depth of field. And you’ll get it in an elegant little package that mimics a sleek compact camera. Here are some crucial stats:

  >> Super wide 20mm view
  >> Made of super-tough 1mm black cardstock
  >> Plastic spools advance and rewind film
  >> Assembles in an hour or two with no cutting or glue required