Photo/postcard clips

simu

Does anyone know where I could get two-sided clips to stick postcards together for display?

To illustrate:



Thanks in advance!

rob1891

http://shop.lomography.com/shop/main.php?cat=&pro=fcl

cost 10 euro, shipping is 8 euro and you are giving your money to an evil image centric company that sells worthless stuff for hundreds of dollars.

There is definitely another better source for these things, that company just puts it's brand on other peoples products and inflates the prices.

simu

rob1891 wrote:

http://shop.lomography.com/shop/main.php?cat=&pro=fcl

cost 10 euro, shipping is 8 euro and you are giving your money to an evil image centric company that sells worthless stuff for hundreds of dollars.

There is definitely another better source for these things, that company just puts it's brand on other peoples products and inflates the prices.

They're the things I was looking for alright but they do seem overpriced and the website is irritatingly "trendy". Would they be sold in real world art supply shops, I wonder?

rob1891

ha, I'm an idiot, go up to my room for bed and see a pile of them on a shelf. Completely forgot I owned them dispite remembering where I got them from! How many of them are you needing, if it's not a signifigant portion of my stock you can have em free. They are the old grey ones, not as nice as the clear ones on the webpage ... look like these:

http://www.opticsplanet.net/bagof100pcso.html

You might find them stocked in some on line shops that have lower shipping charges, I only looked at 7dayshop but they don't have them. Dont know about the real world :eek:

DadaKopf

I feel all dirty saying this but... eugh... Urban Outfitters in Temple Bar sell them, or did a good few months ago.

I feel doubly dirty endorsing both Lomography and UO. I wish someone else made those clips.

simu

Well, I'm in Cork and Galway most of the time so OU is not an option. What's so bad about lomography apart from their hipness overkill, anyway?

I've just been looking at the site and the idea of mapping the globe through photographs appeals to me even if I find the many split photos on there (just a gimmick that gets dull quickly) and the walls of photos (impact of individual photos is lost for me) annoying.

somano

I had never seen these before. What are you planning to use them for ?
Perhaps this .

Let us know if you find anywhere else on the net that supplies them.

DadaKopf

simu wrote:

Well, I'm in Cork and Galway most of the time so OU is not an option. What's so bad about lomography apart from their hipness overkill, anyway?

I've just been looking at the site and the idea of mapping the globe through photographs appeals to me even if I find the many split photos on there (just a gimmick that gets dull quickly) and the walls of photos (impact of individual photos is lost for me) annoying.

The Lomographic Society is a very shrewd marketing operation masquerading as a public service/artistic society. It's nearly like they read No Logo and says "fu*k it, we'll do everything that fat fraulein says we shouldn't". They're very clever at roping people in, only later realising they've been hoodwinked.

I'll put it this way: Holga cameras cost at least €60 excl. postage; they cost between $15-30 on eBay and shops in America. Lomo LC-A's are badly made and break easily; they're bad cameras but they make them desirable, even though they're as expensive as a digital camera. Nearly as expensive as a basic Voightlander Bessa rangefinder body, too.

Then they fool you into thinking they're providing their 'members' a service by giving stuff away.

They've managed to instil a remarkable degree of brand loyalty to the point where anyone who criticises them on Lomo boards (like www.lomo.us) gets sharply chastised by other posters.

If they were cheaper and not so cynical, I wouldn't have a problem with them.