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Lomographic Society continues to suck, co-opts Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day

Posted April 22, 2008 in Kit/Equipment + Pinhole

The goons at the Lomographic Society International—the people who brought the world the $20 Holga for $70 and monopolistic control over the distribution of the Lomo LC-A camera—have now added Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day to the list of products and events they had nothing to do with creating that they’ve claimed as their own. The [...]

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New Lomo LC-A+

Posted September 21, 2006 in Product News

As much as I hate to give any publicity whatsoever to the monopolistic rip-off marketing goons at the Lomographic Society, they have come out with something cool. Like everything else they sell, it’s embarassingly overpriced, and I recommend that you not buy anything from them unless it’s unavailable anywhere else—for example, don’t pay $70 for [...]

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BBC Video Nation online videos about Lomography

Posted March 21, 2006 in Op-Ed

"Video Nation teamed up with BBC Four to produce a series of shorts about Lomography, to coincide with the Happy Snappy Days exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London." While the off-the-shelf "Lomographer" identity thing makes me want to fucking puke and I think it should die in a car fire, it is [...]

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Digital Lomo: Minitar lens + RD-1 = success!

Posted March 17, 2006 in Camera Hacking & DIY

The people at Sushicam have successfully grafted the Minitar lens from a Lomo LC-A onto an Epson RD-1 digital rangefinder. Check out the step-by-step of building the lens mount as well as sample images here at Sushicam. See previous post on part 1. Also don’t miss Ta King, who has several galleries of photos taken [...]

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Digital Lomo: hacking the Minitar lens onto an RD-1

Posted March 7, 2006 in Camera Hacking & DIY

The folks at Sushicam are working on putting the Lomo LC-A’s Minitar lens onto an Epson RD-1 digital rangefinder. As they point out, with the RD-1′s 1.5x crop factor, they’ll probably lose out on much of the vignetting, but there’s one way to find out! I’ve long thought about adapting it for use on video [...]

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