Welcome to Self-Doubt, AK. (Pop. 1) Twinned with Purchase-Anxiety, MA.

[hirez]

Strange things, extended families. There your are, bobbling along in a friend-shaped cocoon of mutual understanding and good fellowship, when suddenly and disturbingly you bounce off people you're related to because peer-group normal isn't family-normal and the bastards are staring at you like you've three heads.

Small Brother's conversation revolves around the amount of work he's doing, how much money he's banked in the last week and what kind of Range Rover (a 4.6HSE, apparently) he's buying his wife. I'm pleased that they're doing well. I mean, if you're going to be related to someone who does high-end in car tech-toys, it might as well be one of the best in the country. It's just that the disconnect that I used to feel, and that I had come to think recently was just me being over-precious and wanting to make my teens sound a little more anguished than they really were (I am the only Peelite in the village, etc), came back with a bit of a wallop.

Coupled with that, I discover that the LOMO factory has given up making LC-As (or have they?), the 'Lomographic society' is a mob of Viennese marketing students and Proper Photographers hate them with a passion. And that one used to be able to pick up s/h LC-As for $15 if you went and got one yourself from shops in what we used to call Eastern Europe, but only after I'd paid $more_than_that for one off Ebay.

Well, we'll see what happens when the thing arrives. On one hand, Sturgeon's Law applies. On the other, so do Groucho Marx rules. On the third: http://www.lomohomes.com/hirez (The ActionSampler animator is a Splendid Toy)

I tend to think that because I'm printing out one or more images per reel, something interesting is happening. I think it would be somewhat intereresting to vaguely subvert the FIM thing, but that would be wandering into areas that I'm... Less than comfortable with.

Comments

[spride.livejournal.com]

I was in Budapest last week and despite looking in every camera- and pawnshop (note spelling, codepope), I saw nary a one.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I suspect they've all gone to be ebayed.

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

How did the Whitby ones come out? I'm sure you pointed it at me a few times over the weekend.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I've still got a pile to send off for processing. The night-time ones pretty much didn't work. A shame, but one had to try it. The daylight stuff came out pretty well.

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of getting a Lomo, any recomendations? I think I would prefer it without the 4 shot facility but somethig that gives that wonderful surreal quality.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Not yet. :)

The A-S is a warped kind of fun, but I'm glad I didn't pay money for it because it allows me not to care about the thing and thus point it in a random and hopeful manner at things.

I'll obviously bang on about the LC-A if/when it arrives from $ebay_shyster. I'd like to think that it'll produce more of the same randomness without me having to crop the good ones down to a singe frame in potatoshop.

From some googlage, it transpires the thing's a knockoff of the Cosina CX-2, so I guess if you find one of those for sixpence, it might be worth a bash.

CX-2 examples: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lomokev/sets/100047/

I think that the Proper Photographers miss the point somewhat: If I wanted a handy compact 35mm camera, I can borrow P.'s Nikon what has auto everything and a reasonably nice lens. However, I like the lo-fi malarkey that began with the 7250i cameraphone and continues with current toys. It's like the noises that Pole makes with his broken Waldorf filter or maybe recording on some ancient valve-based multitrack. Odd things happen. Yes, it's distorted and not 'real', but reality has a bad press.

[evilmandykins.livejournal.com]

i really like some of the industrial shots you've taken there- the repetition is strangely apt :D great work!
tho i must confess i had to go look at the site's "about" page tp learn what the lomo is/was
i used to have a camera that took multiple lens shots in order to give a 3d look. very surreal...

[kajia.livejournal.com]

Ross and I are going to Scotland to be conveniently "not around" for his family reunion. We are seeing the few safe members of his family next Sunday instead (grandparents - like cats, mum - architect and artsy, dad - artist). The plethora of cousins not seen for 20+ years are being given a miss.