Tag Archives: LOMO LC-A
Sidewalk Reading, San Francisco
Standpipes
Drink.
Closed for Business
Lifeguard Shack
No cross processing, just plain ol’ C-41 processing with no color correction requested.
Window Reflection, SOMA
I bought 10 rolls of expired Fuji Superia Reala 100 from the Lomographic Society. It’s been a while since I shot with Reala, but I can’t see any significant degradation in color. Maybe it’s not that expired, after all?
Projector 2, San Francisco
Projection Room
Bicyclist on Townsend, SOMA SF
Cube Light LOMO
Another quick snap on my lunch hour in SOMA district, San Francisco. I scanned this one from the print instead of using York Photo‘s online scans.
Sidewalk LOMO series – SOMA district, San Francisco
Another sidewalk series photo from the SOMA district in San Francisco. I’ve walked the same streets and alleys in SOMA continually for 15 years and am amazed at the things I see for the first time when looking through the viewfinder.
Phone Line
De Soto Cab Phone Line. Lomo LC-A, Kodak HD400 film.
Don’t think, just shoot
This LOMO mantra’s been getting easier for me – since I’ve been growing my hair longer and spring breezes are here, I’m having a hard time looking through the viewfinder without my hair getting in the way of the lens or the viewfinder!
I shot a roll of some generic $.99 cent store ISO 200 film on my way home last night and didn’t look through the viewfinder once. We’ll see how it turns out!
<Obligatory photo posting>
Persnickety cameras…
My LOMO LC-A has had problems intermittently on the tail-end of the roll. It takes more and more effort to wind the film on, then at frame 18 or so the mechanism slips. It happened again so I shorted the roll and opened it up. It seems the take-up reel has cracked in a couple of places, and it wasn’t turning. I was able to free up the mechanism, but it’s still a little wonky. 20-year old Soviet-era plastic can’t be expected to last forever – as it is, it’s still going after 100+ rolls!
I took my Vivitar IC 100, the newest $1.00 camera in the family out for a test roll and noticed that the winder was an odd retrograde design. The guide sprockets rotate left to right, then the take up reel rotates counterclockwise. It jammed at frame 16, and I had to take the camera into a dark closet, open the back and manually feed the film back into the case. I could feel the sprockets had shredded at some point on the roll.
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