interesting article on the Lomo
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Really interesting article, read it this morning. An article, related to film photography, on the Top 10 on BBC News website (it isn't now, but it was when I read it this morning), is fantastic news regardless of whether you love or loathe Lomography.
Slightly disappointed with the assumption that an LC-A exclusively has some features, for instance:
This is hardly a distinguishing feature.
All in all though, Lomography are doing more to support film photography than a lot of players in the market at the moment - sure, it's at hefty prices, but they are developing film cameras and, more importantly, they are selling products at those high prices - so clearly they are doing something right. :shrug:
Slightly disappointed with the assumption that an LC-A exclusively has some features, for instance:
This is hardly a distinguishing feature.
All in all though, Lomography are doing more to support film photography than a lot of players in the market at the moment - sure, it's at hefty prices, but they are developing film cameras and, more importantly, they are selling products at those high prices - so clearly they are doing something right. :shrug:
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I bought my daughter an original Lomo to use as part of her A level photography course. She got some great results from it and it really is a back to basics camera.
I'm not sure there is that much of a market for a basic film camera at a premium price, I guess I'll find out when I come to sell it later. She doesn't want to keep it since she got her Nikon D3!
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I'm not sure there is that much of a market for a basic film camera at a premium price, I guess I'll find out when I come to sell it later. She doesn't want to keep it since she got her Nikon D3!
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There's still a good market for them second-hand, you'll have no problem selling it, I would have thought it would go quickly if you stick it in the classifieds here. They seem to fetch between £70-100 on a well known auction site.
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lol, the one I'm most proud of is the Lomo LC-M, the successor to the LC-A, less than 700 were made and it took me absolutely ages to get hold of one.
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lol, the one I'm most proud of is the Lomo LC-M, the successor to the LC-A, less than 700 were made and it took me absolutely ages to get hold of one.
What's the difference between the A and the M?
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Apart from its looks, this camera has several major technical improvements over the LC-A. Firstly, its ISO goes up to 800, making it even better for shooting in dark/low-light conditions. This ISO setting comes with the cost of losing ISO25.
The camera also has a cable release screw-in hole. This is a very useful feature – I always found myself accidentally nudging or shaking my LC-A whilst holding the shutter button during long-exposures, leading to blurry pictures. It allows me to do self portraits thanks to a little clockwork shutter-release thingie I got. Or I can screw in a cable-release cord and do blur-free long exposures.
There are a few minor changes too – there is one light in the viewfinder (instead of the LC-A’s 2); it takes two batteries (instead of 3); the nearest focus is 0.9m (instead of 0.8); and the shutter mechanism is apparently better/more-reliable but I haven’t really noticed this.
Apart from its looks, this camera has several major technical improvements over the LC-A. Firstly, its ISO goes up to 800, making it even better for shooting in dark/low-light conditions. This ISO setting comes with the cost of losing ISO25.
The camera also has a cable release screw-in hole. This is a very useful feature – I always found myself accidentally nudging or shaking my LC-A whilst holding the shutter button during long-exposures, leading to blurry pictures. It allows me to do self portraits thanks to a little clockwork shutter-release thingie I got. Or I can screw in a cable-release cord and do blur-free long exposures.
There are a few minor changes too – there is one light in the viewfinder (instead of the LC-A’s 2); it takes two batteries (instead of 3); the nearest focus is 0.9m (instead of 0.8); and the shutter mechanism is apparently better/more-reliable but I haven’t really noticed this.
