I made a toy lens for my DSLR using three plastic lens elements nabbed from an old Kodak Instamatic ‘255X’ (which used Kodak 126 film – virtually useless now).

Here is a video I shot with it to try it out. It kind of looks like super-8.
Testing my lens, Perth City, 24th Dec ’09 from Jeremy Hall on Vimeo.
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