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Lol, i wouldn't use a TLR its quite awkward to use out on the street and u'll get weird looks, i have a lubitel 166u (10 ebay) everyone knows leicas are awesome but expensive for just street shooting. i would look around on ebay. a Canonet 2.8 are small and unobtrusive and have been rumoured to have a leica sharp lens!!! Also the Kiev Rangefinders are the most reliable of the Conatax and Leica ...

I think i have sorted my critcs out. You have further to go to do that. The journey does not complete with the first step.

I think we all make terrible mistakes at some time-even as an old Pro,I dropped some clangers,and got rid of those objects we don't want. I could kick myself now,items I've discarded I would like back...at a cost!.

If I want to produce vignetting or soft focus, I can add that in software. Of course, everyone is entitled to use the camera they choose for themselves, but I personally can't see why I would want to pay more for a camera with a restricted feature set, poor optics, and poor reliability. But that's the thing - you don't buy a holga (or any other toy camera) expecting tons of features, am...

Lets remember this IS a PHOTOGRAPHIC site .

I have a Kiev and a Lubitel too there great i cant stop using my Lubitel and have great photos i took with it in my profile.

I suggested getting a Holga for medium format experiments while studying for my photography HND and was laughed at by my tutor. He reckoned I'd get an old Rollei for about £90 from eBay, but when I looked, old Rolleis were about £2000. I eventually bought a Seagull TLR for med. format work which cost 260 euro. Shortly afterwards I dropped my scanner and broke it (I develop the films at home) so...

Just put up my first shot from the SFX roll from the lucky dip...

So now we know who to blame! (I thought Boyd was the exception, though? ;)

I'm a massive Lomo fan and have a Lomo camera but I'm not in the Midlands.

It's now live and announced here. Hopefully we will get many entries which will make it more valid to ask for prizes for future challenges.

Lomography is basically marketing, and very well done. A method of getting good money for crappy old designs and keeping the cash registers going. A good proportion of modern digital photography is just astute marketing to get the tills ringing.

I don;t think it matter as long as you're comfortable enough with whatever you use that you can do it intuitively. I like this quote. "Concentrate on equipment and you'll take technically good photographs. Concentrate on seeing the light's magic colors and your images will stir the soul." I'm using this as a mental brake every time I start a new bout of EAS, equipment aquisition syndrome...

"but is it really a art of taking mostly rubbish out of focus totally blurred pics? Yes. But you occasionally get some great photos.

Me too :-)