Fun with Lomo

A gallery of my first Lomo pictures

I bought a Lomo LC-A camera in the beginning of December and got the prints from my first two rolls I shot with it today. What a fun little camera that makes such groovy pictures! Sadly, due to the cold weather or my fumbling, half of the 2nd roll didn't get printed since the film got a wee bit mangled when I was rewinding it. I had to go huddle in the dark of the loo, open the camera up and rewind it carefully with the backdoor hanging open which left a few bits of film confetti on the floor. There were some good shots in the chewed up film from what I can tell from the negatives. The luddite joys of a film camera. :)

The pictures were scanned and sized for the web, nothing more. The colours are crazy without any help from photoshop. The sushi picture is my favourite as we were just having dinner at the yo-sushi-esque place in town on a rather slow Sunday night and I thought I'd take a few pictures just for grins. There's a retro hyperrealism/surrealism that I really find attractive. The neon and the Christmas lights are amazing considering that the film was 100ISO and I didn't use a tripod. Still, these photos taken with a cheapo Russian camera are in some ways far better than the ones I took with the 10D at 1/15th the price. I hope it isn't just beginners luck with the Lomo and that I get even better at taking freaky fun photos.

3 Jan 2004 at 1:59, Helsinki