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I came across this link today.
It's photography, but not as we know it. I just wondered if anybody on this site was into/knew anything about it. It looks like a fun way to experiment with image making and probably something you could do with any camera rather than just the Lomo.
Ian
I first heard about this when there was a TV programme about it on BBC4 a couple of years ago. It's a very appealing idea to have a sort of stream-of-consciousness style of photography instead of the almost obsessive attention to minutiae some photographers have.
You don't need a Lomo of course, but I'm not sure any camera is really suitable. Really needs a small, simple compact.
"Proper" Lomos aren't made any more but the Lomography Society have a range made in China I think, including a version with a fisheye lens and a couple of other weird cameras.
I stumble upon this site every now and then . . . In summary, shot from funny angles, don't think and if you do it often enough, something different will emerge. Bit expensive for film but ok for digi. As for four frames on one neg . . . fun for film but a two second action in PS.
Quote: four frames on one neg . . . fun for film but a two second action in PS
Yes, but it's only comparable if you have shot a fast sequence of at least four shots with your digicam, and it's a super lightweight camera which fits nicely in your pocket...
Conrad
Ah - I see what you mean. It's the compact bit that's tricky. I have no problem with 8 frames a second 
Had a Lomo since 1988 (before Lomography started), and I tried to use it (an LC-A) as a "serious" camera. The lens vignettes terribly, but it does have rear-curtain flash sync. I still use one now (not very often though).
I've got an Action Sampler, it's cr4p!. It came free when I signed up to uboot.com
I've been a member of the Lomographic Society since 2002, but I didn't really get into it (I haven't uploaded a photo in over a year).
I used to use a Minox for this sort of thing, it's not a new idea, casual shots from the hip have been part of photography for a long time, and you don't have to use any particular type of camera.
I do have a problem with Lomography's tendancy to fetishise one particular bit of kit, and they've driven the price up out of all proportion to it's value. These days a camera phone seems to me to be just as good, probably better than a Lomo, for immediacy.
I've got a friend who is really into Lomography. He used to have a Portfolio on here, with some of his pictures on, but he can't have used it for a while as I can't find it anymore. The Lomo does take quite good and unique pictures and although the lens does vignette terribly, this is part of the lomos individualistic charm. Yeah, it probably is possible to take similar pictures with a normal compact camera, but as you don't need to put the camera to your eye, you can take some really good candid shots without the subject knowing anything about it. If I can I will find out my friends website address and post it on here so you can have a look.
Quote: Yeah, it probably is possible to take similar pictures with a normal compact camera, but as you don't need to put the camera to your eye, you can take some really good candid shots without the subject knowing anything about it.
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You don't need to put any camera to your eye...
...particularly not one with a standard focal length or wider and a focusing scale for dead reckoning. I understand that there may be people on here who find it hard to imagine something so prosaic as that, but really even in the late 80s/early 90s most SLR users were using MF, and many would use the focus and DOF scale on the lenses and shoot from the hip, certainly my Pentaxes and Minox got a lot of use that way.
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