where to get lomo cameras

hmm thinking of getting a lomo cam but dunno where to get and which kind to get...

[isomers007]

u can get them @ kinokuniya.....i saw lomo, actionsampler, and holgas @ kino, orchard.....can try ebay too...may get fantastic deals there. for more info on de cams....check out www.lomography.com

[Newbiez]

i'm selling off my LC-A

[Silverelf]

Hello... I'm a *you guessed it!!* newbie. So can someone kindly bring me up to speed on lomography?? Pleasee???

[YSLee]

Lomography is...

The art of selling an antiquated russian camera which produces mediocre results that costs under $50, telling people to take crap photos labelled as art, making them feel good about said crap, then conning them a good $300+ out of it.

[ckiang]

I never understood what the hype is all about. Like YS said, the LOMO marketers are trying to make you buy a $300 camera to shoot those blurry shots of banal stuff (like cats, dustbin, your friend's HUGE and distorted face etc) with very bad composition (or rather with no regard to composition).

Please, you don't need a $300 camera to do those. Buy any camera, even a disposable one. After all, both still waste film. Alternatively, get one of those detachable webcam cum digital cameras and shoot away digitally. Results are the same - blur, badly composed, etc.

Need the oversaturated look? Either shoot Velvia at ISO 64 or use PhotoShop.



Regards
CK

[Silverelf]

Oh... phew.... I was beginning to think that I was missing some important point about Lomos..... seems that I'm not missing all that much.... thanks!!!

[Mystix]

i've personally seen the lomo exhibit at the eplanade tunnel and i think some of the shots are not that bad with pretty nice colors and yes..some of them are even pretty well composed... anyway i always feel its the photographer and not the cam that makes the pic...juz my 2 cents.

[ckiang]

Quote: Originally posted by Mystix i've personally seen the lomo exhibit at the eplanade tunnel and i think some of the shots are not that bad with pretty nice colors... anyway i always feel its the photographer and the cam that makes the pic...juz my 2 cents.

If that is so, it further reinforces my belief that you don't need to pay $280 for get those kind of shots. An Olympus mju II which is cheaper can probably do it better too!

If one is thinking of it as a "fun" camera, then $280 is too much, can get a "real" camera with that money. To me, fwiw, $50 is more like it.

Regards
CK

[sprockett]

i have a lomo cam too...

its the way it separates the photo into 4 segments, and taking each segment at 1/3 sec interval...

i think the fun is also in the pure mechanical nature of it...

everything works by springs!!

in fact i tihnk digi cams should allow the user to seperate the photo into 4 segments and take at one shot automatically 4 frames, each 1/3 sec later from the other..

the effects are very cool...

esp when u are moving closer or further...

i wish my s45 could do that... and if i modify my aperture and shutter speed i'd be able to take really candid cool pics!

[mpenza]

most cameras have a burst mode which does essentially the same thing. on mine, I could take five photos spaced 0.2s apart.

[cccp]

i see most of exp photographers here dont really like lomo........ but personally i think its alternative photography. Not mainstream though. Sort of suitable for current generation. Its modern art fusioned with photography .....

I would say a LOMO has more character than a typical camera. It doesnt cost a bomb like a DSLR...it doesnt give so much clarity like a DSLR... it cant do alot of things a normal camera can do but..... it gives everyone the space to imagine just like what B&W do.

I am supportive of Lomo!

PS: Photography is not confined to just ESPLANADE and FULLERTON!!!!!!!!! hahahahhaha

[sprockett]

yah, i noe there is burst mode, but the image processing chip shd allow users to custom design the layout of the final jpg file saved on the memory card..

so i don't have to go back home, and cut and resize and paste the images..


btw is there a way to BURST mode but for specific no of sohts?

like4 per time etc etc..


thanks and regards

[sprockett]

u guys are rite... 300 for the single snap shot one is quite ****...

but 50 bucks for the super and action samplers is pretty ok...
i'v egotten some cool effects with them b4....

come on, u already pay 25 bucks for a disposable cam!!

[mpenza]

depends on the camera. most cannot be user specified and is just dependent on how long the shutter is pressesed.

Sony cameras have a way of creating animated gif files which I find interesting.

[ckiang]

Quote: Originally posted by sprockett i have a lomo cam too... its the way it separates the photo into 4 segments, and taking each segment at 1/3 sec interval... i think the fun is also in the pure mechanical nature of it... everything works by springs!! in fact i tihnk digi cams should allow the user to seperate the photo into 4 segments and take at one shot automatically 4 frames, each 1/3 sec later from the other.. the effects are very cool... esp when u are moving closer or further... i wish my s45 could do that... and if i modify my aperture and shutter speed i'd be able to take really candid cool pics!

Get a Coolpix. At least the 950 has a mode where it squeezes 4 x 4 frames into 1 big image. MUCH better than the SuperSamplers.

Regards
CK

[Ian]

Quote: Originally posted by cccp i see most of exp photographers here dont really like lomo........ but personally i think its alternative photography. Not mainstream though. Sort of suitable for current generation. Its modern art fusioned with photography .....

Now that can be taken two ways, either the 'current' generation have no aesthetic senses or that modern art really is ****.

I'm the first to admit I've seen a few Lomo shots that I've liked, howver the truth is that Lomography is a con job, and a massive one at that, almost as big a con job as some of the other steaming piles doing the rounds in the alleged art world.