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The Holga 135 TIM is a toy camera that I bought new, actually. It is probably the most bizarre camera in my collection (though the "Action Cam" could give it a run for its money), with its creepy (or charming) anthropomorphic design featuring adjustable eyelids and a single-toothed smile. I am fond of his (Tim's) appearance, but less so of the pictures he takes. He shoots either whole-frame stereo images through two open eyes (though the lenses are too close together to take very convincing stereo images) or half-frame images through one eye at a time. It's a novel concept, but not really well executed. Exposure is controlled via a cloudy/partly cloudy/sunny selector in his mouth, and focus is fixed, through plastic lenses. The included flash is cute, but pretty wimpy and takes forever to charge. The built-in color filters might make for an interesting effect, if one were willing to waste a roll of color film that's worth as much as the camera is. The lightweight plastic construction makes it very hard to hold it stable and shoot without shaking and causing a blurry mess. I have probably used it 3 or 4 times and only produced a few usable images. I'm glad to have it in my collection, but I wouldn't recommend anyone buy it.
Flash photos in the dark make for somewhat unnerving or creepy images.
Some nicer composites that were made by combining two half-frame photos
