I have a lomofraphic camera, but i'm not sure if it takes film? digital? batteries? my question is this: do lomographic cameras still have film that can be bought easily? You don't say whether the camera is a LOMO or a HOLGA. LOMOs take 35mm film, HOLGAs take 120 roll film. They are auto-exposure cameras, so they will need batteries. 35mm film is readily available in supermarkets, pharmacies, etc. 120 roll might be a bit more difficult - its not something that I see in the local supermarket or pharmacy. Lomography
Lomography, international vernacular-photographic movement founded by two Viennese students, Matthias Fiegl and Wolfgang Stranzinger. In the early 1990s they discovered the Lomo Kompakt Automat, a basic auto-exposure 35鈥塵m camera made in Leningrad (St Petersburg) since 1983, and found it ideal for taking uncomposed, spontaneous snapshots, especially in the street and in low light. Subsequently they not only founded the Lomo Society International and organized exhibitions, but dissuaded the manufacturer from abandoning Lomo production and themselves took over distribution. Later, the society designed and marketed multi-lensed plastic cameras (鈥榮amplers鈥? capable of taking several images on a 35鈥塵m frame. But the Lomo 鈥榩hilosophy鈥欌€斺€楽hoot鈥攄on't think鈥欌€攊s independent of any particular equipment, film based or digital. Although Lomography's headquarters remained in Vienna, 鈥榚mbassies鈥?appeared worldwide. From 1997, however, it became a classic Internet phenomenon, with dozens of websites and thousands of pictures exhibited online. |
