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Contest Over
Thanks to everyone that entered. The winners of the contest will be announced soon.
Lomography for EOS!
The kind folks at Lomography have donated a bundle of their Diana F+ lenses to use with your Canon EOS Camera.
What is Lomography?
The Lomographic movement started upon the discovery of the Lomo Kompakt Automat (aka the LC-A) in 1991. The compact-sized Russian camera became renowned for its unique effects such as light leaks, vignette shadowing, and rich, saturated colours. As its fan base grew overtime, the community expanded into a worldwide phenomenon, filling every space with a stream of Lomographs to build amazing Lomowalls. From then on, the community has not stopped coming up with all sorts of creative analogue ideas (and we have not stopped cooking up with fun and exciting Lomographic tools, as well!) that keep Lomographers busy tinkering with their special projects, exhibitions, and collaborations.
I want to see examples
This is a great gallery of some truly creative images, please take a look: Lomography Gallery
Secondary Prize?
You bet! I'll be giving away a couple of Canon Rumors t-shirts!
The Catch?
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cr
sweet contest!
Cool ! Thanks CR entered
Great contest. I am excited to see how it turns out.
250 euros for a lomo? dang, thats a lots of money for a “toy camera.” I remember when they used to go for less than $80 USD. makes me wish I didn’t pass up the $70 asking price at a swap-meet in 2002.
awesome awesome i want to try that out.
Is this contest opened to anyone (like not only North Americans) ?
I want a t-shirt!!!
Please :-)
the same contest @ NR a week or two ago.
I don’t understand how this contest works, I have only to send my email?
But i’m not from USA
@ culture.detox: when I was vacationing in the Philippines they have extensive supplies of lomography cameras for the equivalent of 50 USD or less.
Great Contest !! Thank you !
Matt
lomo lame, of low quality, fear no shame
where you err, the camera is there to blame
their philosophy emphasize spontaneous picture taking without complicating that by worrying too much about quality. bluriness and fringing are appreciated as artistic effects.
I have most of these already and LOVE THEM. They have a plastic dreamy feel to all the images.
Am I the only one that would prefer second prize?!
Get a fake one from china on eBay for 5 pounds.
Great contest ! best of luck to all of us !
lomography posted this thing on their site about the results http://www.lomography.com/magazine/tipster/2009/11/11/diana-f-plus-lens-adaptors-adjust-the-view
That is a sweet prize! I love love those lenses.
Give it away… In a world thats only taking…!
bip
I bought all the lenses when my only Canon lens was in for repair. I haven’t played around with them too much, but I did a post on my blog about Lomography (http://ta-dahphoto.blogspot.com/2009/11/lomo.html)
Crop factor is a slight disappointment. Although you can definitely have some fun with them. There are scripts out there for GIMP that give a LOMO effect to your shots.
Good luck to everyone who enters! Hope to see some shots from the winner.
Nice pics, what did they look like before you digitally processed them?
I thought about getting a couple of those lenses for my wife (she loves lomo) but the crop factor issue was worrying us. She’s also not a DSLR person so we’d probably use the lens with the Panasonic GF1 so the crop factor is even more of an issue. I suppose I could get some sort of wide angle adapter for it.
I’d rather a yashica t3/ olympus mju II/ olympus xa2/ pentax pc af
something cheap and high quality and simple to use that actually takes good pictures!
If you want a lomo effect make sure the light seals are worn, maybe slightly open the camera back to let a tiny bit of light in, it should hit some of the frames but not wipe them all out.
expired film and cross processing will get some nice effects too
all that lomo stuff is way overpriced for what it is, theres so many good quality/priced cameras out there if people know where to look. or just get the really cheap point and shoots that were never highly regarded when they first came out, 1-5 dollars on ebay plus shipping!
Thanks D! I’ve updated the post (http://ta-dahphoto.blogspot.com/2009/11/lomo.html) to include the original shots (as well as links to GIMP and the Lomo effect).
Both shots are with the 20mm fisheye, but fisheye distortion is just noticeable on the indoor photo.
I’m unsure if you will be able to attach any Diana+ lenses to the Panasonic GF1 with the Lomography adaptors.
Whoever in their marketing department is responsible for the term “lomo effect” is a true genius. I mean, selling totally crappy lenses by describing their reproduction errors as artistic …
Happy Hanukkah
I was looking for a lomo camera, but this notice is great, a Diana F lenses for digital Canon?? I want that!! I did something similar with lomo effect, changing the color’s photo in Photoshop, but, as you can see, is not the same:
http://imaginariodoolhar.blogspot.com/2009/09/detalhe-de-uma-fonte-no-jardim-botanico.html
http://imaginariodoolhar.blogspot.com/2009/12/parque-farroupilha-porto-alegre.html
http://imaginariodoolhar.blogspot.com/2009/07/metro-de-belo-horizonte.html
http://imaginariodoolhar.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
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Oh, I hope I win… I love new photog toys.
Wonderful shots!
Thanks so much for the contest….I finally won something cool….thanks to CanonRumors and Lomography. Much appreciated…will be fun to use with my Canon 5D Mark II…cheers…happy holidays and happy new year to all…
Devoted CanonRumors fan,
Joseph
Hey,
I want to win this but I missed the date. You should do it again.