[QUOTE=labbet;27244525]i don't buy cameras for "status." i just really like high saturation, and a little surprise when you get the roll developed. part of the price is the book and the film it comes with. the camera itself is $80.
and doesn't toy camera require a plastic lens? and you can't have a 35mm digital camera, expert.
i just want to say first off that i am not opposed to digital photography. film and digital are good in their own ways. digital is perfect for, say, a event, or a photo shoot of a fashion show where tons of photos are taken and you pick out the good ones. film is good for the artsy fartsy ones where you do a long exposure of Christmas lights, or a band playing (bad examples). what i like with film is you try your hardest to get the shot right, because you only have 24.
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If you like high saturation, shoot some Kodak Ektar and underexpose it by 1 to 2 thirds of a stop and develop normally.
Or, you know, shoot some Velvia.
Shooting with a plastic camera with a plastic lens does fuck all for colour saturation, the only important things are film type, exposure and film processing. Along with post processing (analog or digital) depending on how you're displaying the image.
Also, if you're doing long exposures, do yourself a favour and shoot digital, that way you don't have to worry about reciprocity failure.
Who the hell buys 24 exposure 135 film?
[QUOTE=pedroion;27257215]Someone is butthurt over the fact that lomography is a gimmick
A hipster gimmick
I actually don't know who[/QUOTE]
Lomography itself is fine as an idea. It's toy cameras that are the gimmick.
Lomography is an invented name to sell overpriced cameras.
Thread needs to be locked and left to die.
Edit; I'm serious. Even if you disagree with lomography this thread has dissolved into trash talking the OP. It's strayed very far from it's original intentions.
LOMO
Little Originality,
Mostly Obnoxious
Photography of hipsters
A haiku by Saxor16~
My understanding of lomography is a little different to that, but I won't disagree that the above photo sucks.
[QUOTE=Saxor16;27257552]LOMO
Little Originality,
Mostly Obnoxious
Photography of hipsters
A haiku by Saxor16~[/QUOTE]
8, 5, 7? Wat.
[QUOTE=labbet;27230996]to clarify, Lomography is spacific type of photography that the picture is take with a lomo camera, which are known for their lo-fi, analog, film pictures.[/QUOTE]
I have a Lomo medium format camera, and it's decently built and produces relatively good quality photos :colbert:
[QUOTE=ijyt;27257740]8, 5, 7? Wat.[/QUOTE]
What u talkin bout?
[QUOTE=Saxor16;27257768]What u talkin bout?[/QUOTE]
Your haiku isn't a haiku.
How is it not a haiku?
[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;27257767]I have a Lomo medium format camera, and it's decently built and produces relatively good quality photos :colbert:[/QUOTE]
Likewise, but I'd rather shoot 120 film in my Hasselblad.
[QUOTE=iamacyborg;27257820]Likewise, but I'd rather shoot 120 film in my Hasselblad.[/QUOTE]
That may be so, but I bet your Hasselblad isn't a 1980 Moscow Olympic commemorative model (clearly making it inferior). :colbert:
[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;27257862]That may be so, but I bet your Hasselblad isn't a 1980 Moscow Olympic commemorative model (clearly making it inferior). :colbert:[/QUOTE]
It's not made of plastic and has glass Zeiss optics. :colbert:
What I like about it is just taking random pictures, the outcomes are always abit different and interesting. Yeah I could achieve the same effects from a digital camera but half the fun is just snapping a picture when you aren't even looking.
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Touché.
[QUOTE=Saxor16;27257803]How is it not a haiku?[/QUOTE]
Because it doesn't follow the 5, 7, 5 pattern for syllables.
[QUOTE=Angoose;27257924]What I like about it is just taking random pictures, the outcomes are always abit different and interesting. Yeah I could achieve the same effects from a digital camera but half the fun is just snapping a picture when you aren't even looking.[/QUOTE]
You can do that with any camera though...
[QUOTE=iamacyborg;27257972]You can do that with any camera though...[/QUOTE]
why are you so content on shitting on others opinions? Leave the thread if you don't like lomography.
[QUOTE=Angoose;27258012]why are you so content on shitting on others opinions? Leave the thread if you don't like lomography.[/QUOTE]
I never said I didn't like it, I just dislike the whole fad around it, and the fact that you supposedly need an overpriced, shit plastic camera, when any camera will do.
On the plus side, film sales are probably up.
[QUOTE=ijyt;27257934]Because it doesn't follow the 5, 7, 5 pattern for syllables.[/QUOTE]
I didn't know about that!
[QUOTE=iamacyborg;27258061]I never said I didn't like it, I just dislike the whole fad around it, and the fact that you supposedly need an overpriced, shit plastic camera, when any camera will do.
On the plus side, film sales are probably up.[/QUOTE]
alright sorry man, bit stressed today :v:
tbh I thought the whole reason people liked it cos the cameras were so cheap. Though looking on the lomo site the prices are ridiculous. I paid £3.50 for mine from some ebay shop like 2 years ago.
I actually quite like Lomography.
When looking at most photographs of it however, they don't mean much, but to the person who took the photos and their subjects it can be a great tool to document situations.
By the way, I think that this is a fantastic photograph:
[QUOTE=labbet;27230996]this is my cousin violet and her dogs Watson and Talula.
[img_thumb]http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5161/5259944418_60c6739f62_z.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=labbet;27244525]i don't buy cameras for "status." i just really like high saturation, and a little surprise when you get the roll developed. part of the price is the book and the film it comes with. the camera itself is $80.
and doesn't toy camera require a plastic lens? and you can't have a 35mm digital camera, expert.
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I never said digital anything, you do realize [B]D[/B]SLR cameras are digital and SLR cameras are film right?
Tell y'all what, stop bitching and the thread lives, keep bitching and people get banned.
Let's just settle the dust and say it like it is- Lomography is cheap photography and holga cameras cost a shit-ton from the store, but you can find a few of them for two bucks at any goodwill store you come across, in antique stores as well. Found one for a quarter once.
35mm format for a digital camera refers to full frame, where the size of the sensor's active area is the same as 35mm film. You can have huge sensors, like the digital backs on Holga cameras at 120mm, reaching 50 megapixels. Better yet, the [url=http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog/reviews/miscellaneous/seitz_6x17_160_megapixel_digital_camera.php]160 megapixel camera with a 6x17 [b]centimeter[/b] sensor area.[/url]
Lomography is supposed to be fun and spontaneous, not technical and challenging, and whilst it looks kind of uninteresting, I think the pictures that come out are more sentimental than just regular old snapshots to the person who took them. They really feel like one of those 70's movie reel montages with fancy memories and snippets of people laughing.
[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;27257767]I have a Lomo medium format camera, and it's decently built and produces relatively good quality photos :colbert:[/QUOTE]
thank you, why don't you post them, after all, [i]its what the thread is about.[/i] *glares at haters*
[editline]7th January 2011[/editline]
i will try to keep the fish eye picture out, is seen by average dislike by viewers.
thank you all who complement and have constructive criticism for others.
[editline]7th January 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=iamacyborg;27257903]It's not made of plastic and has glass Zeiss optics. :colbert:[/QUOTE]
just want to mike a little correction, my LC-A has a Russian made glass lens. ok. that's all.
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