Yesterday, Lomography announced their brand new Konstruktor camera. The Konstruktor was teased in many ways to the Lomo crowd and I’m not sure that many people would have ever expected it to come. The Konstruktor is a DIY SLR camera. There is a full mirror assembly that uses a top-down viewfinder the way that older SLR cameras used to feature before the days of the more contemporary viewfinder that we know today.
The camera is available for purchase in a kit and is meant to be assembled yourself, and that makes it an awesome camera for a child or a tinkerer. Lomography’s USA CEO told me yesterday that they’re encouraging hacks with this camera since the community loves to do that with the Holgas and Dianas.
With a fixed 50mm f10 lens and some interesting construction, we were very curious.
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Lomography has been teasing a brand new camera for about a week or so, and today they’re unveiling something that I absolutely never thought that I’d see. The new Konstructor camera is a DIY SLR that many of the hipsters will probably purchase, look at the manual, and say, “Screw this!” But the avid photographers and hackers will probably have loads of fun with this. Indeed, the Konstructor is a camera that you’re supposed to put together by yourself. It shoots 35mm film and they’re claiming that it takes around one or two hours to put it together. Interestingly enough, the camera has the traditional look-down viewfinders instead of incorporating a mirror and pentaprism. And because of that, we’re not quite sure if this is an actual SLR–but more of an SLR style camera.
Like almost all Lomo lenses, they’re giving the user a slow 50mm f10 lens that can focus down to about 0.5 meters away, when many would have probably loved a faster f2.8 or f3.5 lens such as what they have in their glass optic LCA cameras. It also comes with a bulb function and the shutter speed is locked into a 1/80th setting otherwise.
Specs and more images are after the jump. The Konstructor is available for purchase now for $35.
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We received an invite today to a Lomography party that is all about, “Konstruktion.” And as Lomo usually is with their hints, they’re confusing as all hell. The company published a hint not long ago followed up by another. The only thing that I can think of is the fact that they are probably developing some sort of modular system into the LC-A+–as is evident from the design on the right in the photo above. The Diana F+ doesn’t have its lens that low down, but the LC-A+ does as does the LC-Wide. The cameras can already take Fujifilm Instax backs and natively shoot 35mm film–and if all this hype is over the fact that they can now adapt 110 film onto them, I think they’re going to be facing some pissed off journalists.
While some may think that the company is all about and just for the hipster folk and people who shop at Urban Outfitters, Lomography has been doing some really great things for the industry. Besides reviving 110 film, they also put out a semi-serious medium format camera in the form of the Bel-Air, which we just reviewed.
As always though, we’ll let you know what’s going on when we get the info.
A while back, Lomography announced LomoChrome Purple. The first batch went out fast, and the second batch is now available for pre-order. It is available in 35mm and 120 formats. To refresh your memory, it is a film that is heavily based off of the old Kodak Aerochrome, which renders all greens as purples and pinks. This infrared film was also used for military applications, and lots more.
Still confused? We wrote a big guide about all this when it was first announced and it should help clear up the confusion. I was one of the first to pre-order a couple rolls of 120 film, and we will be sure to have a review on it as soon as we can get them shot and developed–let alone get me to a green spot. Lord knows there isn’t much in NYC.
Earlier this month we teamed up with BorrowLenses and Lomography in order to give away stuff. And by stuff we mean cameras. And by cameras we mean either a Canon 5D Mk III or Nikon D800, and a Lomography LC-A+. Both contests are still running and will be for a couple more days/weeks, so you can still sign up and take your chances at winning one of these great photographic tools.
The BorrowLenses contest will be running through June 22st 12AM EST, and the Lomography contest will be running through May 31st 12AM EST. For more info and to enter the contests, please visit the respective posts:
Win a Canon 5D Mk III or Nikon D800 from The Phoblographer and BorrowLenses.com!
Win a Lomography LC-A+ From The Phoblographer and Lomography!
