Over the last few months I’ve been bringing my Kodak underwater camera into the pool with me. I found it while cleaning out a couple of cupboards in the house and knew I had to start playing around with it.

I’m loving shooting film at the moment. It’s really frustrating for me waiting to get the shots back, but it’s so worth the wait when you do. I’ve said this before, but film is warm. Digital photos can feel so cold and emotionless sometimes but film is nostalgic and the colours are always beautiful, even if they don’t turn out the way you expected.

View more from the Disposable Diary series here.

Not sure if you will remember but months ago I said I was going to do a camera challenge called Camera of the Month. The challenge was meant to be for me to use one of my cameras per month and post the results. Unfortunately, that was too big of a task for me – as film is so expensive I really try to use film when I want to capture memories and important moments, not just to capture boring daily life, although those kinds of photos have a lot of charm.

Overall, I found that the Sprocket Rocket can be quite temperamental. The exposure is all over the place. I do have a flash for the Sprocket Rocket which I’ve used with the next roll of film I’ve put in it (black & white) so I’ll post the results in another year when I finally get that roll developed. Something to keep in mind when using this camera is that you only get 12 pictures per 24 exposure roll of film. The width of the frame is nearly double the width of a regular 4 x 6 photograph. Also, I’d make sure that you switch off bulb mode after the shot you take – I think mine was accidentally left on for numerous shots which is why they’ve turned out so blurry.

Let me know what you think of the results and if you want to try out the Sprocket Rocket.

View from my balcony on a morning with the most beautiful sunrise I’d ever seen.

Beach – This isn’t what I intended to capture but I think this is really eerie and cool.

Christmas Lights ’13 | Bulb Mode

Tom – Christmas Day ’13. Unfortunately the shutter went off too late with this one so it was very overexposed and didn’t capture the moment I wanted to.

Monopoly

Selfie Fail. This picture is really weird and creepy but I thought I’d show you it anyway because you this camera is quite temperamental and you’ve got to take the bad with the good, right?

Carnival ’13

View from home – This is an edited version as the original was extremely overexposed.

Selfie | Bulb Mode

Paper cranes – I’d made 1000 of them in 2013.

I’m really happy with this picture. It was a disco light with the camera on bulb mode. I was hoping to capture pretty much exactly this.

View from home on a not so nice day.

As you can tell, not all the results are pretty, but I am inspired to use this camera again. It took me over a year to finish the roll as I didn’t want to waste any pictures – I think obviously that the best results are of landscapes so I think I’ll try to capture more of those with this camera. 

For some reason I still can’t get a hang on bulb mode. I have to admit, these turned out pretty bland and unfortunately these weren’t scanned with the sprocket holes which is disappointing. I will definitely only get Sprocket Rocket film developed with Lomography from now on.

Have you tried the Sprocket Rocket before?