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>
I found a roll of old photos from my TIME Camera and tried cleaning up some of the spots and lines from processing in Photoshop.
This pic came off the first test roll from my Vivitar IC 100, a $1 plastic camera I picked up recently. It’s pretty standard looking. The insides could come from a LOMO Colorsplash or any number of unremarkable cameras. A simple lens, shutter speed and aperture fixed at 1/100th sec and f/5.6, and cheap enough to take anywhere (and not worry about it)…
Mannequin on Piedmont Avenue. Canon FTb. Fuji SuperHQ 100 film.
Light Fixture, Nikon D70.
Chopsticks, Canon FTb. Film unknown, probably Fuji 100
Old print, new scanner. This was taken in Oakland’s chinatown back in 2002 or so. I love the shallow depth of field you get with a slow film, an old mechanical SLR and a 50mm Prime lens.
Just so you know, it’s not all city shots and toy cameras around here.
Lomo LC-A,Fuji SuperHQ 100 film.
…Gathered on recent walks through the Tenderknob, SOMA and parts elsewhere, San Francisco.
I’m always amazed at the LOMO LC-A’s ability to capture vivid colors in low light. Every other camera I’ve tried has given me washed out colors when I extend the shutter speed out in low light.
With my LOMO, I load up the slowest film I can find (Lucky 100 when I can find it, Fuji SuperHQ 100 when I can’t) and shoot away.
Random LOMOs from my most recent roll of expired Lucky 100 film. Taken around South of Market, San Francisco. My 1991 LOMO is still going strong, after what I figure to be 100 rolls of film shot through it…
http://photojojo.com/content/tutorials/coffee-caffenol-film-developing/
Survival scenario #117:
You’re trapped in a grocery store. Zombies are closing in from all sides. You have a crucial photo that could end the carnage, if only you had some way to develop the film.
What do you do?
You grab some instant coffee and vitamin C, you develop the film, and you vanquish the zombies.
What, you don’t think we’re serious?
First of all, zombies are an inevitable part of life.
And secondly, you really can develop film using vitamin C and coffee. For reals.
Read on, and we’ll show you everything you need to know. Quick, before the zombies regroup!
[ found photography, via photojojo ]
I took this back in 2002? I gave the negatives to the mother of the groom and never got around to asking to borrow them back. My mother had a 4×6 which scanned nicely. LOMO LC-A, Fuji 100 film.
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