Here’s something for Colbert Platnimum: Check out this 24-carat-gold-plated, leather bound, 130-edition Lomo camera released yesterday. “Frugal fatigue” much?
The gold Lomo LC-A+ (from those Lomography guys who brought back the vintage camera trend with their massive re-make/re-package/go-viral scheme… yes, people are actually using film again) will run you at $600. But it’s got an actual Russian Minitar lens! What does THAT even mean? And for the animal-conscious moneybags? Don’t worry! I’ve just confirmed that the leather’s synthetic.
So pretty. So wrong.
Hey, Marina, I understand the fandom around Lomo, except if this model has a decent lens, it's not going to make Lomo pictures, amirite? Is this model for gearhead-morons? I mean, I am unnaturally passionate about and with my old Contax S2, but that's because it's all manual / analog / useyourfuckinghead / filmy. Except for the spotmeter, but we don't even need that, do we?
PS I still mourn the death of Scala, don't you? At least I can pull a box of my old, slow Kodachrome out of the freezer every now and then and still get it processed in New Jersey. The Garden State.
I'm pretty sure it's all just like their other remakes/LC-A+ models… by "models" I mean colors, I guess. Just with a really cool Russian lens. And bling. I won an LC-A+ in a contest once, but my pictures aren't all coming out as colorful-blur-wtf-awesome as some of the one users have parading across their community. And film photography is expensive. Especially if you're a gearhead-moron like me.
I appreciate the photogram-like aesthetics that lomos produce but it's too much now the knit hat style of photography – instant "art." This "model" is simply stupid.