LOMOGraphy is.....

[Belle&Sebastain]

[there you have it, NOT TO SHOOT 'PROPER' photos, isn't it 'BAD' photographic habit?

Oh, well.. I understand the need for people to justify their LOMOs after spending a considerable amount of money on it.
In advertising/marketing terms, it's the typical post-purchase behaviour of consumers.]

:thumbsup: my sentiments!

 

[elutris]

[there you have it, NOT TO SHOOT 'PROPER' photos, isn't it 'BAD' photographic habit?

Oh, well.. I understand the need for people to justify their LOMOs after spending a considerable amount of money on it.
In advertising/marketing terms, it's the typical post-purchase behaviour of consumers.]

:thumbsup: my sentiments!

On the contrary. I only spent $80 on my LC-A compared to the thousands I have spent on my SLR bodies, lenses, flash guns, tripods, ... you get the idea.

 

[elutris]

Very simply again, a perception problem of the americans :bsmilie:
Overhyped by the culture of burgers and pizzas.. ever been to a true american family's home? Ever tasted a family meal? That is what's called a proper meal. Burgers, that's juz convinience in an urban society that brings ill health to the people for the sake of quick turnaround and quick profit, just like the lomo ;p

Actually yes. I have friends and relatives who are Americans and whom I have stayed with for periods of time. And they do see a good hamburger and pizza as a proper meal and scoff when I mention that they are eating junk food. But that's besides the point.

there you have it, NOT TO SHOOT 'PROPER' photos, isn't it 'BAD' photographic habit?

And there you have it too. Define 'proper' photos.

Oh, well.. I understand the need for people to justify their LOMOs after spending a considerable amount of money on it.
In advertising/marketing terms, it's the typical post-purchase behaviour of consumers!

As I mentioned earlier on, I am not justifying LOMOs as a piece of equipment. In fact, I boycotted their products and bought straight from a distributor on ebay. I only stressed that I see lomography as a technique.

In any case, I really didn't spend much on my LC-A actually... Just wondering, have you actually played around or used an LC-A before?

 

[Belle&Sebastain]

no i do not? what's to compare your 80 dollar cheap glass poorly coated lens to your thousands on your SLR equipment? i could produce art from anything, even disposable cameras? what is the comparistion? price?

my point is that poor made cheap cameras have been hyped to arty fart types as 'collectables' and fashionable 'must haves' at prices that are totally not worth their true value!

i'm from the arty fart school as well and the bull**** it tries to sell ppl, its so damn crap to begin with. sorry if my thoughs dun go though well with you, its late and i'm tired. good night :cheers:

 

[swingoutsister]

i have posted something similar before...here it is again. hope this helps!


Alfred's Camera Page

LOMO Joe

Matt's Cameras


The Holga and Action Sampler are *NOT* LOMO cameras! They are Chinese-made "cameras" repackaged and sold under the LOMOgraphic Society International's banner (an Austrian company originally formed to sell and promote the use of the LC-A and hence, LOMOgraphy).

LOMO (Leningradskoye Optiko Mechanichesckoye Obyedinenie, or, Leningrad Optical & Mechanical Enterprise) is Russian, and never made any of these cameras. Instead, they manufacured cheap everyday-man cameras such as the Lubitels, LOMO 135VS and the SMENAs. LOMO manufactures optics for scientific and medical industries nowadays. More recently, the LOMOgraphy Society has begun selling cameras from other manufacturers as well, such as the russian FED, chinese Seagull and Fujifilm.

 

[elutris]

no i do not? what's to compare your 80 dollar cheap glass poorly coated lens to your thousands on your SLR equipment? i could produce art from anything, even disposable cameras? what is the comparistion? price?

my point is that poor made cheap cameras have been hyped to arty fart types as 'collectables' and fashionable 'must haves' at prices that are totally not worth their true value!

i'm from the arty fart school as well and the bull**** it tries to sell ppl, its so damn crap to begin with. sorry if my thoughs dun go though well with you, its late and i'm tired. good night :cheers:

I totally agree on your take on art. I myself would use disposable cameras in lomography (and indeed I have), only the LC-A gives me the rich saturated colours with the Russian lens. From my first post, I stated that I see lomography as a technique, not a branding nor a piece of equipment. I was only trying to put across to vixx that I did not 'spend a considerable amount of money' on my LC-A and thus don't need to justify my stand on lomography just because I spent money on the camera.

Good morning, good evening, and good afternoon.

 

[sevenWAYS]

anyone noes where i can get LC-A at a lower price and what kind of flim does it use ????

thanks,
7ways

 

[elutris]

anyone noes where i can get LC-A at a lower price and what kind of flim does it use ????

thanks,
7ways

You could try ebay but you'll have to do your own studying and research and decide which seller is reliable.

It uses normal 35mm film.

 

[sevenWAYS]

tks for the reply ..... wor ???? from ntu too ????
same here .........

perhaps i was thinking of getting it in shops in singapore ?

thanks
7ways

 

[supperman]

Here's my 2 cents worth.

I'm with Elutris somewhat about lomography. I totally enjoy the philoshophy behind the movement: carry your camera every where, be ready any time and shoot without thinking. The benefit of these 'toy' cameras is that you can carry them around easily and since they're mechanical and totally focused at infinity, you can point and shoot very quickly to catch any spontaneous moments that would have been otherwise lost.

In many sense, you can replicate the experience with other cameras, but it's not really the same. It's the same way that using a RF has a very different feel from using a SLR and the attitude to shooting is different as well. When I carry my lomos, I shoot much more recklessly, and break the rules that I normally have in terms of composition, subject matter, so on and so forth. You can obviously do the same with any other camera, and I have tried with my DSLR, but somehow using the large awkward camera that way just didn't feel right and my pictures show it. Using a Leica is the closing I get to the feeling, but even then, there's the temptation to try different focal lengths, or aperatures and stuff.

The most important thing about lomo cameras is about having fun and embracing the unpredictiability. I don't think that many of my lomo pictures are keepers, but it was a blast shooting them!

 

[Minoxman]

Piece of crap if you ask me.

 

[BoXXer]

Piece of crap if you ask me.

nobody asked you.

 

[Minoxman]

nobody asked you.

Hence the word "IF".

 

[Patryk]

Lomography is just lomography, i bet they'll be like asking among themselves what we guys find so amusing with our big, thousand dollar equipment. Arguing on what lomography is...well..is useless...so why don't we just go shoot great pictures instead.....

 

[defector]

hehheheh. confirms my hunch. So many people don't like it! So it's really overhyped eh? ;p

Regards
CK

Guess its not that much about over hyping.. the main thing here is that lomography makes professional photographer looks cheap. Because lots of money and time have to be invested to learn the art part of photography before lomo is introduce. Pro photographer are pro because of the quality pictures they take with their pro equipment. And when Lomo is introduce they made the traditional photo art worthless suddenly. its like every one can create art. (which is a fact every one can create art.)

Now in 2005, it seemed that every thing is digitised. and Pro pictures can be photoshopped. Lomo is just another form of expressing photography arts. Different medium. And you might want to consider lomo users don't really edit their pictures digitally. Just like ballet and modern. There is nothing know as over hyping art form.

if you were to ask me. lomo comes up with something close to life. And thats main part of photography. being close to life. I don't see people carrying Their D70 around everyday unless they earn a living from it. If people have a lomo in their bags every day every where. or rather most days of their life. I think lomo touch photography big time.

personal views.

 

[LazerLordz]

lomo is...
...A DISEASE.. juz like all those posers and wannabes outside cineleisure and heeren and many place else... a pity for the youths who gotten so obsessed with their identity disease..

Yeah there's a lot of that going around, guys in weird baseball hybird caps made from half mesh, girls in pleated short skirts and black Von Dutch tees.But hey, teens will be teens.Though I can't say I stand a crowd of clones who thought they would be cool and be hip or individual to wear something that everyone else is wearing.

Lomography is actually quite a nice form of picture-taking.Let's not limit ourselves to 22mp CCDs and macro shots of butterflies shall we?

 

[LazerLordz]

Guess its not that much about over hyping.. the main thing here is that lomography makes professional photographer looks cheap. Because lots of money and time have to be invested to learn the art part of photography before lomo is introduce. Pro photographer are pro because of the quality pictures they take with their pro equipment. And when Lomo is introduce they made the traditional photo art worthless suddenly. its like every one can create art. (which is a fact every one can create art.)

Now in 2005, it seemed that every thing is digitised. and Pro pictures can be photoshopped. Lomo is just another form of expressing photography arts. Different medium. And you might want to consider lomo users don't really edit their pictures digitally. Just like ballet and modern. There is nothing know as over hyping art form.

if you were to ask me. lomo comes up with something close to life. And thats main part of photography. being close to life. I don't see people carrying Their D70 around everyday unless they earn a living from it. If people have a lomo in their bags every day every where. or rather most days of their life. I think lomo touch photography big time.

personal views.

There is nothing wrong with specialising with spontaneity in photography.And no one said that we should always shoot 2/3s right?Let's open up the field for interpretation.The only jealous ones are the ones who spent thousands of dollars and find that they have not jumped on the more popular bandwagon.True aficiandos of photography will just continue with their own specialty and not gripe so much, unlike poseurs who bought a 300D or D70 and think all of a sudden that they are brilliant.Me, I'm using a prosumer and I 've more interest in pushing my cam to its limit instead of rushing to buy something based on its "cool" factor.

 

[taku1a]

Lomography is not about photography. It's about giving a bunch of people a common identity and some excuse to interact and have fun.

To have the illusion that lomography has a major impact on photography, or to be bothered by what photographers think about lomography, is to take lomography too seriously. And this goes against the true happy-go-lucky spirit of a lomographer. :nono:

Lomography is associated with photography mainly because the common identity of the group is the ownership of a used-to-be-cheap brand of camera. Whether the owners actually use the camera which they carry along like a membership badge is not important, as long as they turn up when there are beer to be shared. :bsmilie:

And that, my dear, is as spontaneous as they come.

Cheers.

 

[Stereobox]

http://cameras.alfredklomp.com/lomography/index.htm

 

[Skye Tan]

cameras are just camera. Be it pro stuff or toy, it's just a device. If it's a toy, Just have fun with a toy lah.