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CAMERA – NOVELTY SPLITCAM $5.31 Imagine your boss with the head of a donkey, or your sister’s legs on your brother’s body. With the amazing Split-Cam, you can morph two photos together into all kinds of crazy combinations. Just use the crosshairs in the viewfinder and the lens-blocking sliders to line up two pictures that you want to be combined onto one print. You can even use it vertically to create the illusion of identical t… |
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Holga 144120 120N Plastic Camera $25.00 The Holga 120N! Still retaining all of those fabulous and unique features that made the Holga 120S world famous, this model, the Holga 120N, takes Holga photography to the next level. Features include a standard tripod mount (1/4-20) and bulb selector for extra long exposures. Your film will now travel smoothly in either 6 x 4.5cm or 6 x 6cm formats with the two plastic masks, included. Also…no … |
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Lomography Diana F+ Medium Format Camera $39.95 The Diana F+ is a faithful reproduction and a loving homage to the classic Diana – with a few new features tossed in. Its plastic lens, 2 shutter settings (daylight & “B”), 3 aperture settings, and manual focus are all hallmarks of the original Diana. And on top of that, the Diana F+ offers a removable lens and super-small aperture for pinhole images, two image formats (12 or 16 square shots on a… |
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Lomographic Fisheye Number 2 Camera $49.00 The world’s greatest compact Fisheye camera is now more amazing than you ever thought possible! Not only does it have same 180-degree wide-angle view and stunning fisheye barrel distortion, but the Fisheye No. 2 adds a bulb setting for long exposures, a switch for multiple exposures on the same frame, the ability to fire both a hotshoe flash and the built-in flash, a true fisheye viewfinder, and a… |
actionsampler/lomo film?
i bought an actionsampler lomo camera. i thought it just takes normal 35mm film, but there is also advertised “35mm actionsampler film” for sale.
my question is: does the actionsampler camera require any special kind of film?
i don’t know much about photography yet really, i come from graphic design and have only just recently decided to learn more about non-digital photography.
thanks
i also bought an lc-a camera. so any info on special film requirements for that (if any exist) would also be appreciated.
The first thing you need to understand is that there is NO such thing as “lomography film.” Like the other poster said, that’s all marketing from Lomography websites and the Lomography Society International company. They’re trying to appeal to hipsters, and sometimes they deliberately take advantage of people who don’t know about film photography. So Lomography places will put special branding and labels on film, like “Lomography Film” or whatever and then they’ll charge 3 times for the same exact film that you can get anywhere else.
Film is film, period. There is no such thing as a certain kind of film made for a certain brand of camera. A 35mm camera can use ANY kind of 35mm film. The only thing you really need to worry about with film is the size and the ISO rating. Film comes in different sizes…120, 35mm, 110, etc. You just have to be sure to get the right size film for your camera. The ISO rating means how light sensitive the film is. Film with a higher ISO number is more light sensitive. So for example, 400 ISO film is more light sensitive than 200 ISO film. The ISO rating is important because it’s one factor that determines the exposure of your picture. If you have a camera with manual exposure controls, then you would adjust the shutter speed and aperture based on the ISO rating of the film you’re using and what the lighting conditions are like. (Clear and sunny, shade, cloudy, sunset, etc). If you’re using a simple point and shoot camera, then you don’t have manual exposure control so you have to be a little more careful to get the right ISO film. Sometimes, the ISO is also called the “film speed.”
If you really want to learn more about manual exposure control, and how it relates with film ISO, then you should look up the “Sunny 16 Rule.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_16
Most “Lomography” cameras, like the Holga, Diana, etc have a fixed shutter speed and don’t really give you much manual exposure control. So you have to just choose the film for whatever you think the light is going to be like. 200 or 400 ISO film is good for most general outdoors pictures on a sunny or partly cloudy day.
Different types of film have their own unique and subtle differences. But as long as you use the right size and ISO film, you can use it in ANY camera.
The only other difference is whether the film is “Print” film or “Slide” film. Print film is used for pictures, and that’s what most people use. Slide film is for getting your pictures on slides, so you can view them on a projector. Sometimes, print film is called “negative” film and slide film is called “reversal” film.
So, to summarize, here are the only things you really need to be concerned with:
-Film size (35mm, 110, 120, etc)
-Whether the film is color or B&W
-The ISO rating
-Whether it’s print or slide film
That’s all. There is NO such thing as “Lomography film.” Ignore anything you read about that, and in fact if you see any film being sold as “Lomography Film” don’t buy it because it’s bogus.
There is no “Analog Film,” no “Lomo Film” and no “Lomography Film”…it’s all just FILM. The same stuff that has been around for over 100 years.
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