Lomo cameras (back in the day) were popular as they were cheap as chips and almost disposable, made from just flimsy plastic. Now, they’re coated in 24-carat gold and in limited-edition runs of 130 pieces.
Lomography already makes an instant back for its more popular Diana F+ camera, so it was about time they did the same for their classic LC-A+ model too. It brings Polaroid-like instant photos to the highly-saturated, soft-focus photography format.
Being a lomo user, photographer Hunter Richards‘s Canon 5D Mark II hack has totally made my week. Using a Russian lomo lens from the ’80s with an adaptor, he managed to create a beautifully shot lomo film worthy of your attention.
This Lomography Ringflash attaches to the outside of your lens, and its four lighting elements each deliver a different color to your subject. You can use it as a single color ring flash, too, but its makers encourage you to get up close to your subject and flash a picture that has four different kinds of lighting in the same frame. Powered by two AA batteries, it fires via an external hot shoe or its own built-in slave trigger. Might be fun for some trippy looking effects. But that’s not all it can do.
Lomo is known for unique cameras, like the fisheye camera and now this eight lens camera. We have seen a four-lens camera in the past that did a little pop art effect, but the Oktomat from LOMO is the real deal. This $40 camera has eight lenses that take eight photos over 2.5 seconds. It’s hell of a lot better than buying a $1,000 DSLR and giant memory card for burst photo taking. –Travis Hudson
LOMO Oktomat 8 Lens Camera [Uber-review]