Lomo LC-A... 3rd roll

Film : Lucky B&W SHD100
Date Taken : September 2010

I love the superb black-and-white contrast of the Merlion night sceneries! The LC-A truly lives up to its name as the father of all lomo cameras!!!

Lomo LC-A... 2nd roll

Film : Agfa CT Precisa 100
Date Taken : May 2010

C.H.I.J.M.E.S appears so beautiful after the cross-processing effect!

Lomography's Coloursplash Flash

The accessory mate for life that your LC-A will yearn to have and to hold until death do them part. On-the-camera or off-the-camera, this matte muchacho will put the strength and vibrance of the lomographic colour spectrum into your hands, through your lens, and deep inside your fabulous images.

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I just had to "marry" my LC-A off to this coloursplash flash! :)

Lomo LC-A... 1st official roll

Film : FujiChrome T64 Professional Tungsten
Date Taken : May 2010

I particularly love the night shots taken with the LC-A... no flash required... just need to have steady hands!

About the Lomo LC-A

The vision of the LC-A (Lomo Kompakt Automat 35mm Camera) was simple - a miniaturized, automatic camera meant to provide the masses with a reliable workhorse for everyday photography. However, dig a little deeper and you will begin to see the true value of the gorgeous treasure. The LC-A's incredibly sexy 'Minitar 1" lens, designed by LOMO's revered Professor Radionov captures exceptionally vivid images in an all-seeing wide angle view. Its innovative auto-exposure capability, usually only available on very expensive professional cameras, allows the LOMO to function in all lighting conditions and to blow your mind at nightime with beautiful infusions of colors and light. The compact shape of the LC-A makes it a pleasure to take the LOMO everywhere, and its strong metal construction - intoxicating with the aroma of old-fashioned Russian workmanship - empowers the LOMO to be a loyal companion for years to come.

To learn more about the LC-A's history, click here.

Specifications

• Body Type: Point-and-shoot
• Aperture: f2.8-f16
• Lens: 32mm
• Film Format: 35mm
• File Speed: ASA 25-400
• Aperture Priority or Manual Exposure mode
• Hot shoe for external flash: Yes
• Weight: 250g
• Focal Range: .8m to inf.
• Shutter Speeds: 2min-1/500s

Holga 135BC... last roll

In order to "make up" for the LC-A's mistake, I decided to sell away my beloved 1st lomo camera to get some cash back... So here's the last of my Holga 135BC!

Film : Agfa CT Precisa 100
Date Taken : April 2010

I like the bluish, greenish and yellowish outcome of this roll of positives!

My Lomo LC-A story...

I wanted a Russian-made Lomo LC-A camera (also known as the father of all lomo cameras) for my birthday and did some "research" before presenting the request to my hubby. I didn't want to get a brand new China-made LC-A+ from Lomography coz I wanted to get a camera worth collecting.

I was too inexperience and was conned into buying one from an unethical seller at quite an unreasonable cost for a used LC-A camera! The camera looked generally clean and well-maintained at first glance. However, I was a mistake to have the deal arranged at 9pm along my dimly-lit corridor... I only realised after the guy is gone (and never to be contacted) that 3 tiny screws were missing, and the battery compartment had obvious traces of battery leakage resulting in the camera's faulty detection of the light. It was all too late to regret for my silly mistake! I thought I had to spend extra cash to get the camera fixed until I met up with Mr Philip Tay (de Camera Consultant).

I could have wasted more money if I had sent the camera to be "fixed" at the Camera Hospital, which quoted me $100 for the "mouldy-looking" lens to be changed! Mr Tay cleaned up the battery compartment and replaced it with his own uniquely designed battery adaptor for only $8. He cleaned up the lens and checked the camera thoroughly for more than an hour at no cost at all. The camera was good-for-use and no repair of lens was required. Thank God!

This was an unforgettable learning experience for an amateur, and I would never consider getting used cameras online ever again!

These are my first 3 test shots with the cheapest film (Kodak Gold 200) I can get. My passion for the Lomo LC-A has revived! 

My 3rd toy camera... Kumagin

[ Kumagin's family... there's more to add-on for sure! ]



Kumagin captivated me with its silvery-chrome colour that makes it so unique from its "brothers" and "sisters"... It's another cute, low-cost and light-weight plastic toy camera of my collection, and it has ultra wide lens which my other 3 cameras don't have!

Film : Solaris FGPlus 400

Date Taken : April 2010

About the Kumagin (Ultra Wide & Slim)

The Kumagin is a Superheadz 'redesigned' of the all popular Vivitar UWS (Ultra Wide & Slim) camera. Everything works the same, except that the appearance and colour! This small lightweight camera has a wide 22mm lens which provides massive depth of field, an ultra wide angle and corner vignetting (darkening).

Features

• Shoot dynamic, wide-world pictures with its 22mm wide-angle lens
• Surprisingly vivid colors! Camera geeks will be speechless!
• Charming pictures, lovely vignetting!
• It's all made of plastic... as tiny and light as it gets!
• The most convenient and available film format - 35mm!
• Film counter and rewind features

Specifications

• Lens: Super wide-angle 22mm, plastic, aperture f/11
• Distance: 1.2mm ~ infinity
• Shutter Speed: 1/125
• Size: W100 x H58 x D26
• Weight: 75g

The Blackbird returns...

Films : Lomography X-Pro 200 (top), FujiChrome Provia 100F (bottom)

Date Taken : February 2010

The Blackbird subsequently flew to Hort Park, Sentosa and Little India. The rewind crank went a little "cranky" while changing film and opening the camera, the 1st roll of X-Pro 200 was almost exposed and destroyed! That was why the sprocket holes had yellowish-outline. Thank God that the resulting effect was still quite "OK".