Lomo

I want to introduce a new word to you, “lomo”. Maybe you can’t even find the word in a dictionary, but when you google it online, you may find that it’s popular among the young.

In 1991, two Viennese art students bought an old used camera named L-CA when traveled in Prague. They used it to take photographs in Prague. To their surprise, the photographs came out to be amazingly colorful and have a very special style related to Soviet which was so fresh to them. Then, this strange camera became more and more popular in Europe and spread to the USA, Japan and Korea and everywhere in the world.

In fact, this kind of camera was produced by a Russian factory named Leningradskoje Opitiko Mechanitscheskoje Objedinenie, and lomo for short. Today lomo stands for Let Our lives be Magic and Open in its advertisements. Later on, they developed new kind of lomo cameras apart from LC-A. Here’s a list of some hot lomo cameras.

LC-A+, based on the LC-A, is much cheaper than antique LC-A. The price is about S$400.

Holga, having shadows around the picture, is pretty much like LC-A. The price is about S$60.

Fisheye2, characterizing by its wide ankle lens, brings you a world in fish’s eyes! The price is about S$100.

3 Lens, having 3 lens according to the name, looks like a toy, but it’s not! The price is about S$20.

One thing you should pay attention to is that they’re all film cameras which means you can’t see the pictures you shoot until the photos come out. However, it makes lomo special. It’s always exciting when the 36 photos come out together, and they’re the mirror of your life, your memories.

I have a fisheye2 and a 3 Lens. And one of my friends has a holga which had been lent to me once. Here’re some photographs.