I picked up a new toy today - a SiPix Stylecam Blink camera - it’s a digital cam a la Pencam, 640×480 resolution, fixed focus — a point-and-shoot camera the size of two books of matches.
After shooting with SLRs and rangefinders, futzing with film types and settings, it’s a lot of fun to go [...]

AE1P

I went street shooting with my old trusty Canon AE-1 Program, and I miss it. I could set the shutter speed down low, force a big aperture, and with a 28mm lens, get most anything in the shot without having to eyeball it at all. I miss the matrix metering and autofocus when it [...]

I just got back from a photo jaunt - got up at 6:00am after a dinner party (Red wine! ouch!) and packed up my cameras, 3 rolls of Portra 400NC, 3 rolls of Lucky Super 100, and hit the road. Stopped in Crockett and Port Costa in the morning - cold, blustery, and a [...]

So, yesterday I received an email in classic lomo.com style - written quite poorly, but if I understand from the email and a link I was forwarded to, they want to create an affiliate program for driving sales to their web site, but don’t have any real hard details (something about a payout of [...]

Be Yourself

Art is what you make it.
I’ve caught a couple of message threads on the ‘net where people were comparing theirs and others street photography. People inevitably compared their own photos to the works of some of the greats - not favorably.
I wish everyone could appreciate their photographs for the beauty and the art that [...]

Broadcast Flag Blather

from http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/
Text of Hollings letter to Powell
We have obtained a copy of the letter sent by Sen. Hollings to Chairman Powell.
Hollings urges Powell to move quickly and to implement a broadcast flag mandate now, even without additional legislation. He suggests that 47 USC 336(b)(4) and (b)(5) already give Powell the authority to impose such [...]

I bit the bullet and bought 30 rolls of Lucky Supercolor for my LOMO, but unfortunately, UPS missed the LOMOCrawl. Despite the clunkiness of the LOMO (I tried to frame a picture today, realized I can’t see the framelines even if I squoosh the LOMO up against my face!) it’s a great camera. The [...]