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Lomo?

  • 15-02-2007 11:11pm
    #1
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭


    Dublin? Availability? Pricing? I gather the offical products are sold at a whacked markup...


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  • #2
    magicbastarder
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    if you can't find a lomo, maybe buy a lubitel? dunno how available they are, though.


  • #3
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    Do you want general Lomo cameras or The Lomo?

    I think the fisheye is in Habitat, and there's a few Holga's and other bits and bobs in the Photographic Archive place in Meeting House Square.


  • #4
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    General holga, I guess. Whereabouts is Meeting House Square in Dublin?


  • #5
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    Temple Bar-abouts!!!

    Look for the IFI...


  • #6
    DadaKopf
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    Lomos are, really, the Lubitel or the LC-A. You might find a deal on the LC-A on Ebay, but less likely now. They're more popular now than when I bought them, and that was then I thought they were popular!

    Lubitels are CHEAP, and available on Ebay.

    I got my Holga on Ebay from some lad who sold them, marked up, right outta the factory in Hong Kong. €25 or something.

    Not sure if you can order the new versions (with Bulb and colour flash filters), though. Give Ebay a whirl.


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  • #7
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,895 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    a mate of mine once had a lomo action sampler - must see if he still has it.


  • #8
    prox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭prox


    I always thought Lomo referred to the cyrillic script in the Lubitel logo:

    lubitel-166b_front.jpg

    I use one of those, and get some passable results from it. The cooke triplet lens gives quite a soft image and the falloff in focus towards the edges of the frame can be pretty brutal when you go wider than f8:

    389944473_4abac99112.jpg

    It's a lot closer to a real medium format camera than the deliberately wacky plastic-lensed cameras, so it depends what you want to achieve.

    As far as where to get one, eBay is your friend. Choose your seller carefully, and read all the shipping T&Cs before bidding.


  • #9
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,895 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    lubitels are made by lomo, but i'd always understood a reference to 'the lomo'as being to the LC-A.


  • #10
    ender ender
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭ender ender


    I wouldn't say plastic lens cameras are "deliberately wacky", just sold as such at lomography.com. I find I get a colour saturation much better with a Holga than I ever have done with any glass lens camera I've used, but that's just personal taste I suppose... Sorry for going slightly off-topic


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