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 a $15 Holga, get it from holgamods or Amazon—but this is such a product: the Lomo LC-A+.
Take your standard small, cute, horribly-built, awesomely Minitar-lensed Lomo LC-A 35mm camera, and add a double exposure button, metering up to ISO1600 (why the fuck didn’t they go to 3200 as long as they were in there??), and a standard threaded cable release socket. Take away manual exposure; this is auto-only.
The cheapest way to get this camera from them is the Standard Package, which consists of the camera, Colorsplash flash (just want the camera? too bad), cable release (just want the camera? too bad), "Lomographiere" hardcover book (don’t want to pay them for their own marketing materials? the materials where they use their customer’s photos and don’t pay them? too bad), two rolls of film (just want the camera? too bad!), and a set of batteries (OK, that’s actually useful). All yours for the modest price of US $250.
They’re accepting pre-orders now and say the first batch will ship 2 October, 2006.