Wow, that's just amazing. A case of "camera does weird things" being a GOOD thing, from an artistic viewpoint. I can see why you're enjoying having fun with the relatively low-tech toy. Of course, it helps that you've clearly got a fantastic eye for this sort of thing. :D
Yes, it's a low-tech toy, and part of the fun with it is trying to work out just what you can do given the various constraints. LOMO itself is quite a big thing at the moment (partly through marketing, it must be said), and there are some people doing some fantastic stuff with these cameras on flickr.
So, where's the infamous LOMO Vignetting? I must admit that I covet one of these, because of the Russian connection. Your local cemetery looks like a wealth of photographic opportunities.
The vignetting is there, albeit somewhat on the subtle side... it depends on processing, the film, the conditions and, of course, the individual cameras themselves as to just how much you get.
That said, the lighthouse shot is showing some pretty solid vignetting, I'd have said.
Oddly enough, I coveted one of these back in the 1980s, when I was into photography the first time around: what I actually wanted was a Minox 35 GT-E (the jewel-like precision camera with the built-in retracting lens that made the thing about the size of a cigarette packet), but they were ridiculously expensive. The LC-A, at the time, looked similar enough, but waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cheaper, to pique my interest, but I never scraped the funds together at the time to buy one.
Aw thanks :-) But remember, the LOMO's doing most of the work by itself here - the effects it generates just sort of lend themselves to the types of pictures I like to take.
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Anyway, thanks! And I'm sure that you're far more proficient with a camera than you claim...
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Yes, it's a low-tech toy, and part of the fun with it is trying to work out just what you can do given the various constraints. LOMO itself is quite a big thing at the moment (partly through marketing, it must be said), and there are some people doing some fantastic stuff with these cameras on flickr.
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That said, the lighthouse shot is showing some pretty solid vignetting, I'd have said.
Oddly enough, I coveted one of these back in the 1980s, when I was into photography the first time around: what I actually wanted was a Minox 35 GT-E (the jewel-like precision camera with the built-in retracting lens that made the thing about the size of a cigarette packet), but they were ridiculously expensive. The LC-A, at the time, looked similar enough, but waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cheaper, to pique my interest, but I never scraped the funds together at the time to buy one.
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You have talent my friend.
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