Lomography

With a minimal focus distance of 1.5m, weighting 38g, this all plastic lens is meant to mount on a DSLR and give you the lofi looks of the original Holga Camera lens. The performance is quite terrible in terms of definition and rendring, with a reasonably sharp center but blurry…

A Visual Journey into the Talented Analog Photography Community and the Art of Watching Writing the last article, I discovered this interesting photographer Lagia on Lomography. Lomography has a community of very talented and interesting creators of analog photographs, and for me landing there for one reason or another, is…

The Lomo LC-A started its production in 1984. It is a 35mm film camera with a fixed 32mm f2.8 lens named the Minitar 1. With its design based on the Cosina CX-2, it was built in Leningrad (Soviet era name of St Petersburg — LOMO standing for Leningrad Optics and…

The LC-A Minitar 1 Art Lens by Lomography is a Leica M Mount rangefinder coupled 32mm f2.8, originally found on the Lomo LC-A 135 35mm film camera. This pancake style lens is made of brass, aluminium and glass and has a handling close to that of the original. Its results too. The lens was found on the cult film camera and built between 1984–2005 then taken over by what became the Lomography project from 2006 on. The camera is still made but this standalone lens is great as it lets you have the original’s feel on modern cameras.

This last month of 2022 was an occasion to test out a few analog films. From Agent Shadow from Kosmo to the various versions of Fomapan (100, 200, 400).. going by some Cinestill 800 with its characteristic aura rendering of highlights and some Kodak Gold.. …

Note — I will be referring to “liquid lenses” a lot below. These are not the much more interesting “liquid lenses” known to the more industrial imaging community(more on those here). …

Lomo has launched the second generation of the Digitaliza Film Scanner… I bought it immediately after seeing the video on the internet… I have been…

For Lomo Film Lover — — Lightroom Film Presets “The Lomo Love project is meant to give you presets, but at the same time generate donations…All proceeds from the sale of the Lomo Love Presets will be donated and fairly distributed among various organizations, such as SOS Méditerranée and Mission…

At the age of three, my daughter had a habit of waking me at four. Papa, c’est le matin, she would sing, while jumping on my supine form with the kind of merciless, bone-breaking precision that only the under-fives can muster. Our apartment sat on a small, sheltered courtyard at…