It’s no secret Lomography cameras are a hot commodity at L’Usine. Lucky for you we’ve just received a new shipment so we’re all stocked up with your Lomography favourites including Holga, Diana F+, Diana mini, Fisheye, Fisheye 2, and multi lens cameras in various colours and accessories. See some of the lomography products we’re currently stocking after the jump…..
Through a fisheye lens you can get wonderfully distorted and a genuinely unusual perspective… I swear even a shot of the inside of a toilet bowl would look interesting. Our friend and White Rails Jewellery designer, Anna Norriss, took some beautiful beach shots with a fisheye lens while on vacation in Bali. After looking at these shots you’ll have some serious vacation-envy… I know I did.
Today we’re taking Lomography inspirations from Flickr. Here are some of our favourite shots.
Albert Memorial, London UK,
Lomo LC-A | Kodak Elite Chrome 100 (exp. 08/1997) | XPro
Do you miss the convenience of Polaroid cameras? By attaching the Instant Back+ to your Diana it allows you to have both the vintagey and cool Diana effect in your instant photos, which makes it not so far away from the original Instamatic.
Vietnamese Canadian photographer, Richard Lam has recently reunited with the analogue world, taking the LC-A+ with him and shooting some rolls from Paris to Montreal. Take a look at his photos a mix of fashion and a candid snapshots.
Nicknamed the ‘Smeek’, the camera is based on the Diana+ which recreated the classic 1960s Lomography camera. ‘Lomo’ cameras have gained cult status in recent years thanks to their ‘imperfectly perfect’ images, which are typically colour-drenched, low-fi and with unpredictable contrast, giving retro, authentic feel that’s been trendy in the last few years.
The Diana F+ adde a retro-styled flash; the ‘Smeek’ is based on the Diana F+ but adds CMYK-coloured panels in tribute to print designers.
All you hipsters out there this camera is for you… or would make a great Christmas gift!
Available now at L’Usine.
I have a thing for Lomo stuff. Not as much of a thing as the real Lomo lovers, but I love that Lomo is keeping the fire of old-school, cheap-film, all-mechanical photography.
So we’ve put out a new gadget this week, the Spinner 360, specifically for taking panoramas. Read more…
Lomography is casual snapshot photography. It is over-saturated colours, blurring and eye catching distortions. We’re absolutely facinated with Lomography. So, we caught up with Justin Tsui, Lomography Asia’s marketing coordinator, to tell us the scoop on Lomography.
L’USINE: Lomography is quite new to the Vietnamese market; can you tell us a little bit about the history of Lomography?
LOMO: It began with a fateful encounter in the early 1990s, when two students in Vienna, Austria, stumbled upon the Lomo Kompakt Automat – a small, enigmatic Russian camera. Mindlessly taking shots from the hip, and sometimes looking through the viewfinder, they were astounded with the mindblowing photos that it produced – the colours were vibrant, with deep saturation and vignettes that framed the shot – it was nothing like they had seen before! Upon returning home, friends wanted their own Lomo LC-A, igniting a new style of artistic experimental photography that we now know as Lomography!
Looking for an accessory to make your mobile phone or key chain pop? Try these teeny-tiny lomography accessories. They’re miniture, they’re cool and they’re available at L’Usine.
