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[mysterysong]

So today was a pretty exciting day. Because I found Lomo cameras in Adelaide. Not once, but twice.

First was a whole bunch of the newer cameras - like my ColourSplash, in a shop off Rundle St. That in itself was exciting enough

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[spy_cat]

how exciting!
what era is it?

[mysterysong]

The model I have is late 70's, to early 80's. Made in the USSR. Lolz.

[spy_cat]

Woot!
If it were earlier I would have stolen it for the movie :p

[candywhorehole]

Yayz Market Bazaar. I sell them all my crap CDs. I once found a book there called 'Photographing Your Cat', it was amazing. I'm still baffled as to why I didn't part with my $3 in exchange for it... *headdesks*

[mysterysong]

That's the name! I'd completely had a blank on it.
I got an East 17 CD there once. Gold.
I want to go back and have a proper look at the photography stuff - today I was too excited with my discovery.

[candywhorehole]

They seem to have some reasonable stuff, as far as I can tell. I've often sifted through their old black and white prints, but never been tempted enough. We did find an 8-track player there once, though, and sheet music for John Paul Young's "I Hate the Music". Lolz.

[mysterysong]

Some of their old photographs are quite lovely. I actually went in there today because I thought they might have some expired film on the cheap.

I should have a look at the book section. I could probably spend a good half a day looking at everything in there. For reals.

[sssenny]

Haha Smena that's so Russian. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a girls' name.

[mysterysong]

Apparently it means something like 'Young Generation', or youth, or something similar.

[muddy]

Oooooo - camera toy :)

you look back at stuff like this and realise how completely spoilt we are today. I was at the dragoon boats yesterday and took about 180 photos of our work team coming 4th.

I don't think I would even own a camera if I had to use film to be honest. I need that instant feedback as I still don't know how to work light.

f/4 isn't bad. You have to start getting to expensive lenses to get better then that. You will find the fixed 40mm annoying after getting used to zoom. I have a 30mm f/1.4 lense and it's 'OH MY GOD! HOW CLOSE YOU WANT ME TO GET?!' and all these photos of little people in the background.

Not a great range of shutter speeds if you are trying to do anything funky - anything below 1/60th is tricky for a hand held without blur. 1/250 is not 'super' fast either so don't expect to be taking too many action shots :)

Have fun :)

[mysterysong]

Ja, the ColourSplash I already have is film, so I'm slowly getting used to no playback!

Now that I have this camera I'll have to actually learn to deal with light, and distance and so on. Hopefully the entire roll doesn't come out blurry!

[muddy]

ColourSplash is a film camera?!?! Oh okays

[mysterysong]

The thing that's confusing me the most is film speed, and what settings the ASA should be on. The film I've got is 400, and I've taken a few shots with it on ASA 320, since that's the highest it'll go up to.

[doyoumrjones]

Hot!

[mysterysong]

Don't you know it!