lomography
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- snowcat
please forgive my ignorance, but anybody pls elaborate on lomo & lomography - my understanding is lomo is a low quality eastern bloc camera that is now treasured/used/deified out of kitsch or hipness?
or are they really good but cheap cams or something?
thx y'all
sc
- ozhanlion0
lomo is a cheap russian 35 mm camera. it is fully manual and analog. The hotness about it is the vignette effect you catch in your images on the edges. That is probably because of the wide angle of the lens within. It must be 32 or something like that.
that is all I know, you can always ask jevad, as he is more experienced.
- 2cent0
i've always liked the feel and colour saturation of the shots that lomo's take but what i want to know before i buy one is how crisp are the shots?, the ones i always see look a bit blurry.
i'd like to throw some fuji provia 100 slide film in it and then scan the slides hi-res.
- blackspade0
crispish
- i3i2and0n0
im not sure if you have checked out their site and products but there are various cameras that do various things. nothing really worthwhile but the LCA is kind of cool for a point and shoot camera.
I think LOMO is mainly trendy hipster hype.
You can take the same pictures with a 20 year old SLR and have them cross process it at the lab and get the same results.
- quamb0
the lca has an ace lens that yea saturates and vignetts- purists hate this, but some dig it.
lomo became super trendy a few years back & hence spawned a backlash, which is a shame, cos i love the lca- it has nothen to do with trends.
- MIJA0
I've got a holga gathering dust on a shelf somewhere.
Those are fun to screw around w/ as long as you don't take it too serious. The 120 film size is a dope medium for experimentation.
- DutchBoy0
for more fun, buy a Kiev..
exactly (only less mechanical/optical quality) like Hasselblad only one fifth to even one tenth of the price.
:)
- MIJA0
I love my Kiev. the thing is built like a tank handles like a 35mm and the photos I get are crisp as hell!!!!
- nextseason0
What film are you using with the Holga?
- jevad0
http://photos.jevad.com/lomo_den…
It is what it is - if you think it's some big trender thing then don't bother - but you'd be missing out on a whole load of fun.
A lot of lomo is trial and error - its not all 'point and click' like it says on teh lomography website - there is a trick and technique to taking good photos with them.
Personally I like to use 100 ISo slide film on a very sunny and clear day and the C4 cross process. I guess I should get round to putting up some of the 120 pics I've taken since being over here.
Try it - its fun
- superbaka0
the lca takes really soft photos. they have a 32mm plastic lens and you get varied sharpness at different places on the same focal plane, as well as in the vignette. it has very inaccurate metering when it comes to dark or bright subjects.
i shoot on velvia/etc and scan them. 75-100 asa, etc.
- OnesandZeros0
Well, as an owner of a lomo and a kiev, I can highly recommend both for their own strengths. My kiev med. format is big and bulky and cant go half the places my small and light lomo LCA can. Just PLEASE don't get caught up in the money hungry lomo cult (ie, lomography.com). Purchase your lomo for one of numerous other vendors that sell them for sometimes half the price that the lomography.com people do.
- quamb0
the lca lens is not plastic.
- ********0
Most of the colour shots on my site are lca: http://www.mauva.co.uk/index.php…
I could hook you up with a larger scan - depending on the film and light - they can be very sharp.
The only let down with the lca is that it will only last about 3 years then fall to bits. Oh - and over priced too.
- ozhanlion0
ok guys when we are on the subject, I am shooting with a fuji 50 velvia too, how do u process it? I mean there are bunch of labs out there that can give me the positives burned on a cd. I took them like that last time but they were like shit. But when I try to scan the positives with a dia- scanner, I still got shitty results. Do u have any suggestions, tips ?
- ********0
not sure what you're asking Oz...
If they always look shit, it's probably the camera...
- snowcat0
hmm...all very interesting - so it sounds like the lomo / kiev / etc. are more for novelty & experimentation than serious work? i.e. no reason to search out such stuff other than on a lark or to just try new things, compared to building the current digi-SLR package for paid photo work?
thx again!
sc
- rabattski0
"..only last about 3 years then fall to bits." - moth
not really. has a much longer lifespan. and you can fix a lomo quite easy. i mean, it's not a technical advanced machine isn't it? what happens most is that the screws loosen up and get lost in the inside. just open it up. put the screws right back and it'll be allright (ofcourse depending on how you treat it). mine is about 6 yrs old still works like a charm.
- ********0
well yeah you can fix it... I know it's an old design but i kind of resent being charged £100+ for what is really bad worksmanship.
