My friend was asking about a camera today that he remember was made awhile back- and it was really just a crappy film camera, so at first people didn't really like to use it- but then they found out that the distortion was actually really cool looking! I know I've heard of this camera before, I just can't remember the name...|||I don't know about a camera. I gotten some pretty weird color shifts using out of date color film.|||It is the Holga although i've heard people say similar things about the LC-A too. They are both very inexpensive. The Holga runs about $20-50 depending on which model you get, but they are all flimsy. They tend to shatter easily but since they are so cheap, I just buy them buy the half dozen. The LC-A runs about $120-200. It's a lot like the Holga only it is 35mm instead of 120 and it is a solid little camera.|||Holga.|||lomo|||From my experience, color shift has less to do with the camera and more to do with the film you use. Using outdated film can give you color shifts. For even more of a shift, take pictures with old slide film and then process the film with color-negative chemisty. (Cross-processing) This will generally produce images with high contrast and unnatural, highly saturated color shifts.
If you want to try using a camera that produces some distortion in the picture (specifically blurring and vignetting around the edges), look up Holga, Lomo LC-A, and Diana cameras. You could also use these cameras in combination with cross-processing and such for some crazy experimentation.
Check out lomography.com and various lomo-related galleries on flickr.com
Good luck.
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