Really I just stick to bog standard digital photography, (when I can afford it i'm quite tempted to invest in a film camera), but I've always fancied dabbling in using pinhole camera's. I like the idea of it being completely basic and the huge depth of field that they offer.

Are there any interesting or different techniques/branches of photography which you use/would like to use?

I'm going to be buying myself a polaroid and a holga soon, polaroids are so cheap at the moment so that's easy enough - even if the films are almost as expensive as the camera!!! hehehe

Not sure about the holga, I've not looked into it enough but it'll come soon enough :)

Polaroids are so worth it, you gotta make sure NOTHING distracts you or that film will cost you! Meh, maybe it'll look better if it has a bit of blur in it, you only have to wait a minute.

Pinhole cameras are great.

I built one with a variable focal range allowing me to shoot wide angle and telephoto. I used photographic paper for the negatives, printing them emulsion to emulsion as contact prints.

The advantage of this method of photography is that you don't need an enlarger (you can't enlarge the pics anyhow), developing and printing can be done under safelight at home, developing the negs is much quicker, and if you drop the camera, the worst that can happen is that it will get soggy and wet and you have to make a new one.

If you want to take lots of pinhole pictures 'in the field' one way is to make use of the plastic film containers that most 35mm film comes in. They are light tight and make excellent mini-pinhole cameras. melt a hole in the lid and stick a pinhole over the top (copper foil method is really good for making regular, small, round pinholes, with thin edges (gives sharper images)). Cover the pinhole with a piece of opaque material (thic black card held on with elastic band) and check it's light tight.

Arm yourself with 12 of these and in a completely dark room, snip a roll of 35mm b&w film into pieces that will fit in the bottom of each film pot. a small blob of bluetack in the bottom of the pot secures the film, which is pushed in with your finger, emulsion side up.

Store them in a light tight black bag, and pull one out when you want to take a picture, open the shutter, close it and pop it in the other black bag you brought for the purpose.

We should have a pinhole camera picture competition! That will separate the men from the boys with their toys :D