LOMO cameras [and pictures...]

My friend got a LOMO camera for Christmas, so we took a late night spin yesterday to look for interesting things to photograph. This is no ordinary camera. It is Russian-developed and was used as a spy camera quite a while ago until some one rediscovered it and starting to remanufacture the thing. The camera does not have a flash and the cameras have an extremly high quality lens... The photos it produces are quite unique.

So we did a test run last night and the results are pretty damned cool. Lights of all kinds [in the dark] come out to look like long streaks of colors... It really is something to see. Hard to explain, but I think you see what I mean...

http://lomo.com/0001/fotos/aa2167ab5...42343166_l.jpg

There's a bunch of cool and differnt things that you can do with this seemingly simple camera.

http://www.grizzlybear.alfacom.net/e...2039132_01.jpg

www.lomo.com

" Lomo Kompakt Automat

THE LOMO CAMERA - The legendary LOMO Kompakt Automat is a small, black, aromatic, robust, precise and fully automatic snapshot camera made in St. Petersburg, Russia. And IT'S GOT Professor Radionov's ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE LENS: for razor-sharp images, highly light sensitive, 32mm wide-angle. This beady little eye sees everything and makes colours radiate."

I liked it so much that I had to buy one on eBay tonight.

Anyone have one... hear of them... anything?

... looks like a long exposure shot...

Looks exactly like a long exposure shot.

I collect old cameras though... I might have to get one.

That picture is just a sample I found on the site.. There are tons of others. Unfortunately I don't have samples of what my friend got developed today.


EDIT: Anything you don't collect, Mr. mph?

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Originally posted by Click_Stick
EDIT: Anything you don't collect, Mr. mph?

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Yes. :)

The cameras make sense sort of, I used to be a photographer.

Went to school for it and everything.

Hrm... this is very interesting. I want one..... unless they're expensive. :p

How much did your eBay purchase set you back Click_Stick? :)

Only $104.50... [http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3000028038]

There are a bunch of other cameras up on eBay currently, too...

[The official site sells them for $180. Pretty steep.]

Keep a sharp eye, sggg.

A better quick link if anyone cares: http://shop.lomography.com/lca/

Thanks for the info and links CS. I had never heard of these cameras before but now after looking at these links I really want one. They sound soooo neat and look like a lot of fun. If I had the extra money I'd get one now but I am going to have to wait a while til I can afford it.

If you have a scanner you should post some of your pictures once your camera arrives. I'd love to see them. :)

Unfortunately I don't have a scanner, but two of my friends do, so something can certainly be arranged... I really wish I knew about those copiers/scanners/printers earlier... #$%..

When you get the film developed just have the pictures put on a disc.

It costs like five bucks.

Frik! I forgot all about that nifty little deal... Thanks for the reminder, 88.

Or... What about that Kodak deal in which they upload your photos online... Does that only apply to Advantix photos?

www.lomohomes.com/BM_L

-To view some pictures I finally got back. More soon.

Nothing personal... but they just look like blurry pictures.

Whats so special abut this camera?

Yea, most of those are shit. I agree. The skyline pictures are junky because this camera wasn't really meant to do long distance [still] shots like that in the dark. The lights on the buildings are magnified so everything turns out looking like a smeared canvas.

But some shots are meant to have a blurred effect... Such as these taken in a moving car:

http://www.lomography.com/0001/fotos...43785356_l.jpg

http://www.lomography.com/0001/fotos...43785354_l.jpg

The lens is what really makes the camera what it is. http://shop.lomography.com/lca/ The way the camera calculates light in the surrounding area is pretty unique... Check out the link to read what I mean.


Sometimes you never quite know what you'll get...
http://www.lomography.com/0001/fotos...43785279_l.jpg

I've always wanted a LOMO. I've been ogling the pictures on the Lomography website for some time now.

... i still don't get it... :confused:

you can do the same thing with a normal camera... my friend does it all the time, he gets good results during lightning storms

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Originally posted by FirstBlood
you can do the same thing with a normal camera...

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Agreed... maybe I'm not looking close enough, but it just looks like a normal everyday slow shutter speed.

LOMO is as much a philosophy as it is a camera. "Don't think, just shoot."
http://archive.lomography.com/archiv...ve/rdm/014.jpg
http://archive.lomography.com/db_img/10021326a.jpg
http://archive.lomography.com/db_img/10020888a.jpg
http://archive.lomography.com/archiv...p?pid=10011936
http://archive.lomography.com/archiv...p?pid=10010143
http://archive.lomography.com/archiv...p?pid=10001675
http://archive.lomography.com/archiv...p?pid=10019689

I love the name of the Camera.... Lomo... you know, in Cantonese, it means "Your mother" (which is a curse)!

Oh... so its a fake ass status symbol.

Got it.

OK.