Lomography

Does anyone here have a lomo camera?

I am really interested in getting the Diana f+ Chrome...

But I was wondering if anyone had one and what they think of it?

Oh and if anyone has the Nikon or Canon lens adaptor and has tried it with Nikon or Canon lenses?

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Cupcake wrote:

Does anyone here have a lomo camera?

I am really interested in getting the Diana f+ Chrome...

But I was wondering if anyone had one and what they think of it?

Oh and if anyone has the Nikon or Canon lens adaptor and has tried it with Nikon or Canon lenses?

:]

oooooooooh,
what does this thing do exactly?

whatalotafun wrote:

Cupcake wrote:

Does anyone here have a lomo camera?

I am really interested in getting the Diana f+ Chrome...

But I was wondering if anyone had one and what they think of it?

Oh and if anyone has the Nikon or Canon lens adaptor and has tried it with Nikon or Canon lenses?

:]

oooooooooh,
what does this thing do exactly?

They're pretty awesome.

They take 120mm film, medium format, but you can buy different backs for them so they can take 35mm or instant film.

And they have interchangeable lenses like fisheye, close up, wide angle etc. but can also get a little adaptor so you can put Nikon or Canon lenses on them.

And they do like ring flash in multi colours and all sorts of wierd and wonderful add ons and stuff.

They're made of like plastic I think, they're like toy camera's made super professional?

http://uk.shop.lomography.com/

The diana one is based on a camera from the 1960's, the shots look really dreamy and have vignetting.

They're manual winding too so you can like take two shots on one film space.

My mate has this Holga lomo camera:



And it took these shots:





They're super coool! LOL

now that looks like tons of fun!!! i wanna have a go

whatalotafun wrote:

now that looks like tons of fun!!! i wanna have a go

You can pick them up on ebay for pennies mate, I brought one a while back just to use up the surplus of film I had left. I'd go for a fish eye one as they always seem to come out better.

As for lens attachments won't they all be a bit big? Lomo lenses are tiny I can't imagine then being able to take a normal DSLR lens.

Saying that I may be wrong. But either way why would you want to put one on them? Half the fun is in the crapness of the cameras, If you plan to stick a normal lens on it you might as well just buy a 35mm camera.

just my $0.02

i was looking at getting a 35mm slr for some fun, might just get one of these instead!

max wrote:

whatalotafun wrote:

now that looks like tons of fun!!! i wanna have a go

You can pick them up on ebay for pennies mate, I brought one a while back just to use up the surplus of film I had left. I'd go for a fish eye one as they always seem to come out better.

As for lens attachments won't they all be a bit big? Lomo lenses are tiny I can't imagine then being able to take a normal DSLR lens.

Saying that I may be wrong. But either way why would you want to put one on them? Half the fun is in the crapness of the cameras, If you plan to stick a normal lens on it you might as well just buy a 35mm camera.

just my $0.02

I've got some really good lenses for my nikon and my canon-film for zoom, the only reason I'd want the lens attatchment is purely for the zoom as lomo don't make any lenses like that for the diana.

Plus I kind of liked the idea of having some fat lens on a tiny plastic camera, people would be like 'wtf'?

Ive got a Diana F+, not used it yet, but I am to at the shows this year. Love a bit of Lomo.

And before Chris or Max quotes and edits that last sentence, it doesnt say 'homo'. Beat you to it.

Pistacheuro wrote:

Ive got a Diana F+, not used it yet, but I am to at the shows this year. Love a bit of Lomo.

And before Chris or Max quotes and edits that last sentence, it doesnt say 'homo'. Beat you to it.

Haha, yeah it's the Diana F+ I want but the all chrome or the all black one. I liked the snowcat but they stopped selling it. But I bet I'll buy one and another special edition will come out and I'll have to buy that too haha.

I forgot how cameras are clearly social statements

max wrote:

I forgot how cameras are clearly social statements

Was that aimed at me? If so...

You buy a car for PERFORMANCE right?

But you still want it to LOOK GOOD.


The Lomo camera's are cult items, meaning they have collectability.

i had a holga when i was at college.

leaked so much light it was ridiculous.

im pretty sure i binned it.

lol.

i gotta get me one of these!
can you get black and white film for them or even sepia looking ones?

whatalotafun wrote:

lol.

i gotta get me one of these!
can you get black and white film for them or even sepia looking ones?

They just take any 35mm or 120mm film so yeah can deff get black and white and probably sepia too :]

I had an old LCA, but it broke and I'm fucked if I'm paying lomo store prices for a new one.

Still got a Lubitel TLR and a SuperSampler but they're rarely used.

I'd agree with Max, don't bother with other lenses. The whole charm is in the weird, cheap, crappy built in lenses so you lose what makes it a Lomo.

They're kinda fun for a while, but they are definitely waayyy overpriced which I totally object to. You are just buying into the trend they've created. I mean, £70 for what is essentially a toy camera? Shit right off.

Plus it's completely against the philosophy that was behind the manufacture of the original cameras - cheap, easy, accessible photography for EVERYONE. Not overpriced tat for every other hipster that wants to jump on the latest trend (and I include myself in that massive generalisation, but I don't care).

Even since I was at uni (4 years) I've found it difficult to find really good labs too so that kinda puts a dampener on things.

I dug out some old prints the other day from my LCA and Lubitel. I'll scan them in if I can be arsed. I probably can't.

Cupcake wrote:

whatalotafun wrote:

lol.

i gotta get me one of these!
can you get black and white film for them or even sepia looking ones?

They just take any 35mm or 120mm film so yeah can deff get black and white and probably sepia too :]

well. to tell the truth, i'm off to a 40's themed wedding next month and i'd love to take some 40's looking pictures.
now i can use the dslr and the pshop them to look like they were taken with a browniebox but i think with the right film these would look perfect.

what ya think?

i want some pics like this i found