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Lomography Spinner 360 Motorizer Was Probably Designed With That 70′s Show in Mind
Yesterday, Lomography introduced their new Spinner 360 Motorizer unit. For those of you not familiar; the Spinner 360 essentially takes panoramic images on 35mm film by letting the user simply spin the camera around on a handle. The motorizer is powered by 8 AA batteries and will spin the camera around itself as long as the user activates it via the handy little matching radio transmitter: which works from a fairly far distance.
Hands on photos and demo videos are after the jump. The new unit will run you a cool $179.00.
Lomography Partners With Virginia is For Lovers To Announce New La Sardina Camera: Reminds Me That I’m Single
This evening, Lomography announced their new partnership with Virginia is for Lovers. To kick off the new love affair, they announced a special edition of their La Sardina camera (previously reviewed on the site) in typical Lomo style: with a big party. We got to have some hands on time with the camera and also got to take one home with their special Fritz the Blitz flash.
Photos and more about the partnership (including a competition) after the jump.
Spending Two Weeks with Kodak Ektar and Portra
Portra 160 35mm
Not long ago, Kodak got in touch with me and wanted me to try out their latest Portra films: 160 and 400 in 35mm. At Photo Plus, I was also given a roll of Ektar to play with. Admittedly, I’ve mainly been a user of Portra 400, Tri-X 400, Fuji Pro 400, and Ilford XP2. However, I decided to give it a shot and reawaken the excitement that comes with not knowing what your image looks like until it comes back from the lab.
A giant thank you goes out to Nathan Blaney for letting me use his Canon 1N for this post. Blaney is a wonderful photographer, and you should take the time to look through his site.
Fun Review: Pixlr-O-Matic for Android Phones
Sometimes we don’t want to bring a point and shoot, mirrorless camera, film camera, or DSLR with us. And at those times, we’ve often been good enough with the results from our phones. Indeed, when we tested the Apple iPhone 4′s camera, it performed very well. While the iPhone users have their fun with Instagram and Hipstamatic, the closest thing that us Android users have had is Retro Camera (which has undergone many changes since our review.) Enter Pixlr-O-Matic for Android: hands down the single app that is killing my battery due to my absolute addiction.
Review: Lomography La Sardina
The Lomography La Sardina is the very first Lomography camera I’ve bought. Though they’ve been called toy cameras for many years, the company has been working to rebrand themselves and let go of that moniker. Instead called plastic cameras, the Lomography La Sardina is one of the latest additions to that list.
So can a little film camera really hold its own against the slew of digital cameras out there, let alone my beloved Yashica Electro GSN?
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Review: Yashica Electro 35 GSN (The Poor Man’s Rangefinder)
The Yashica Electro 35 GSN is a rangefinder camera that I personally purchased and that has been a dear love of mine since for street photography. After testing the Leica M9, M7 and the Fuji X100 (though the last is not a rangefinder), there were a number of reasons why I made the purchase. Besides the affordable cost combined with sharp lens, wonderful metering, and ease of use, the camera is built to last. But is it for everyone?
