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Old April 6th 12, 10:38 PM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Andrew Reilly[_2_]
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Default More mediocrity than you can shake a stick at

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:47:19 -0400, tony cooper wrote:

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:33:37 -0400, Robert Coe wrote:

On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 09:52:43 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:
: http://canada.shop.lomography.com/cameras

A couple of possibilities:
1. That's all they make for film these days.
2. You blundered onto a leftover April Fool's site.

Bob


Are you joking? Those are all cameras specifically sold for lomography
enthusiasts. They each have features used by people who like this
genre.


Just checked: Flickr has 11882 lomo-related *groups*, and over a million
and a half photos tagged "lomo". So yes, they're fairly popular in
certain circles.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/lomo/interesting/

I think that some of them (photos) look pretty nice, and some of my
friends have taken great photos with them. I suspect that the sense of
achievement that must come with getting any correctly exposed frames at
all must account for some of the appeal.

Cheers,

--
Andrew