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Jan 13 '07 by ambientcity
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I want to get a lomo camera. I'm either going to get the Holga Color Flash, or the Fisheye 2. I'm leaning more towards the Fisheye 2...but i might just get a regular Holga, and get a fisheye lens, and then some color filters for the Holga. Comments? Suggestions?

What lomo cameras do you own?

deathcabfortom on Jan 13 '07 at 9:19pm

o. i thought you said LAMOgraphy.

whats a lomo camera?

ambientcity on Jan 13 '07 at 9:22pm

lomography website

fisheye 2

colorflash

ambientcity on Jan 13 '07 at 9:24pm

only the coolest cameras on earth! and i love your STP picture thing dude, it's hilarious

Shebly on Jan 13 '07 at 10:27pm

I have a regular holga, a fisheye, and a colorflash.

lenabean on Jan 13 '07 at 10:29pm

i have a holga with a strobe flash attatchement

its a good lil thing

dizchik on Jan 13 '07 at 10:30pm

oohh.. i love lomos! i've got meself a super sampler... which i actually don't use much since i moved out of NY :( there's nothing good to capture in TX..

dizchik on Jan 13 '07 at 10:32pm

btw.. that cityscape looks familiar... where is it??

radiostaticstar on Jan 13 '07 at 10:34pm

i had a regular holga, all i have atm is the fourway action sampler...

Stevethegreat on Jan 13 '07 at 10:40pm

is it bad that I think lomography is a way to take blurry pictures and make it cool?

can't you take blurry pictures....with a normal camera?

ambientcity on Jan 14 '07 at 11:57am

not blurry pictures my friend,

but pictures with random color bleeds in random places. great lighting, view...pretty much anything a reg camera can't really do on its own

phones on Jan 14 '07 at 11:58am

i have the fish eye- fun stuff!

margolove on Jan 14 '07 at 12:01pm

I want a regular ol' holga.. guess I'll be waiting on that, though, since I just bought a new digital camera.

canadianbeaver on Jan 14 '07 at 12:03pm

Sorry, but those are lame-ography. Learn about composition and focus and then get the cool tools.

deathcabfortom on Jan 14 '07 at 12:18pm

lol. i want macbook. yeahhh!

spacesick on Jan 14 '07 at 12:18pm

hahaha

spacesick on Jan 14 '07 at 12:18pm

LAME

ambientcity on Jan 14 '07 at 10:16pm

they're definately not lame cameras. and it's not like we're talking wedding photography here. real photographers learn to embrace all sorts of photo styles

Noobits on Jan 14 '07 at 10:31pm

I own a super sampler. the film has yet to be developed. i cant wait

ambientcity on Jan 14 '07 at 10:37pm

post some pictures of your work with your cameras, too!

Stevethegreat on Jan 14 '07 at 10:38pm

ohhhh

you want a camera that doesn't focus AND leaks light.

I see.

margolove on Jan 14 '07 at 10:38pm

but steve! It's art! Even though you have absolutely no influence on how the light gets leaked onto it!

Lucretia Mott on Jan 14 '07 at 11:01pm

I have a holga, and I like it. Don't buy from lomography dot com though because they have maad markups!

Lucretia Mott on Jan 14 '07 at 11:03pm

I also kind of resent the idea that lofi photography is for people who can't do traditional photography. A lot, actually.

ambientcity on Jan 15 '07 at 7:12pm

What do you mean mad mark ups?

Someones getting me the Fisheye Holga Set from lomography.com

canadianbeaver on Jan 15 '07 at 7:38pm

Don't get me wrong. I was knocking the cameras or the the art. I was saying the phots on the site, from a photography point of view, looked lame. The composition of the shots looked very amateur and there has to be some craftmanship to the photography. A $5 disposable camera in the hands of a great photographer will still produce great shots.

canadianbeaver on Jan 15 '07 at 7:38pm

ooops.. I was NOT knocking...

Lucretia Mott on Jan 15 '07 at 7:57pm

Oh I meant that the cameras cost a lot more than they should, especially the holga. I got mine for 20$ to their 70.

Those are from my first roll on my holga. FYI.

margolove on Jan 15 '07 at 7:58pm

where'd you get it? I want a cheap one!

Lucretia Mott on Jan 15 '07 at 8:03pm

Ebay, gurrrl.

Lucretia Mott on Jan 15 '07 at 8:04pm

Well I mean, I got mine from a store but you should try ebay first because I'm sure you can get one for like 5 dollars. I just got a brownie for 2 dollars and it works fine.

margolove on Jan 15 '07 at 8:06pm

nice! Yeah, I'll definitely check it out.. I think old cameras like that are pretty cool, but not if they cost an arm and a leg.

Lucretia Mott on Jan 15 '07 at 8:11pm

Yeah I got mine for 2 dollars, and then 5 shipping. The real issue is getting film. Most old cameras use 127 which is discontinued except for in Canada and like, Kurdistan. The trick is that 120 and 127 are secretly the same, except you have to reroll the 120 in 127 spools. Shh don't tell!

dizchik on Jan 16 '07 at 12:18am

i got my sampler (brand new) for like $30 on amazon with free shipping. you should try there...

ambientcity on Jan 16 '07 at 4:28pm

anyone have any more pics to share?

2 days later

yeohgh on Jan 19 '07 at 4:22pm

http://www.hyperthesis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/branch.jpg

http://www.hyperthesis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/circle.jpg

http://www.hyperthesis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/rock.jpg

http://www.hyperthesis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/dot.jpg

some photo i took during one day snow in prague..may be u like it, LOMO camera definitely one to have, i am getting one soon!!

J-Ray on Jan 19 '07 at 4:25pm

lomos are toys, but you can get similar effects with a slight effort in Photoshop.

check out the tutorials on the interweb

ambientcity on Jan 19 '07 at 4:26pm

i wouldn't call them toys

some people actually do Lomography Art Shows nationwide, it's pretty hard to get that far with a toy

J-Ray on Jan 19 '07 at 4:29pm

i'm not discrediting them by saying they're toys... i like the look of lomo. But I wouldn't want to buy one to get one novel effect that I could simulate using software.

ambientcity on Jan 19 '07 at 4:30pm

ah, i see your point.

but i'd rather have it look weird naturally, than to make it look like that with a software...but that's just me

FionaB on Jan 19 '07 at 5:32pm

hmmm I think I might just pick up one of these babies

J-Ray on Jan 19 '07 at 5:38pm

ambient: yeah, if you're into it, go for it!

Do you have to get the film developed or does it print out right away? or are there digital lomos?

Noobits on Jan 19 '07 at 7:25pm

whats the diff between Holga and lomo? Is it a type of lomo or a whole new brand that takes lomo style photos?

lincolnish on Jan 19 '07 at 8:14pm

I want a lomo camera bad but I can't afford the stuff on the lomography international site. I'm saving up for a 360.

ambientcity on Jan 20 '07 at 1:48pm

Noobits, Lomography is the brand that carries Holga cameras, and tons of other amazing cameras!

J-ray, i haven't seen any digital Lomo's, but i'm sure they have some. They also have cameras in which the film comes out after you take the picture. Some of the cameras are 35mm film, which is regular film+regular processing. And finally, some cameras use different film that requires proffessional lab processing, like the Horizon Kompakt camera.

lincolnnish: Ebay or Amazon!

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