Yes, Olympus is a decent camera brand with it’s own share of the photography market, it has its own following to boot. But why wouldn’t you need this camera by a decent camera manufacturer? Because it costs £1999.99 or in dollars that is 3,315 even if its features are not even noteworthy.

Yes, it’s shiny and it would make your friends jealous too. But it also limits the places where you can take pictures. You can bring it to a soiree or some cocktail party and be the flashiest flasher in the scene. But that’s pretty much it. You couldn’t bring it to the streets. Not unless you want a knife pointed at your throat after two minutes of usage. It’s a mugger’s fantasy! Bye bye 2,000 pounds for you.

The Swarovski covered camera comes with two lenses, has basic features. It flashes, it shines, it glitters. It catches attention not just by your friends, but by thugs too!

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The Diana, back in its time, was an ignored toy camera made by a small company in HongKong–the Great Wall Plastics Camera. Back then, in the 1960s, the Diana is the cheap alternative to the more expensive 120 format cameras. It was ignored, unappreciated and was not a success. Little do the people from that small firm know that years later, Diana had become a cult classic as its avant garde appeal had been noticed by artists worldwide.

The images produced by the Diana are soft, dreamy, gritty, the colors were super saturated, and it randomly contrasts. 10 years after its failure in the mainstream market, the Diana had become a cult classic and has then become one of the most sought after cameras for lomography.

The Diana had then paved its mark as one of the most classic cameras available for the avant-garde artist. Seeing that photography is gaining a feverish cult following these days, more and more are exploring other ventures regarding this craft and what better way to explore photography than in lomography.

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Holga Fisheye 120
Desperate to create the famous fisheye effect but you only got a Holga Camera? Well, now you can bring your Holga Camera into action with the Holga Fisheye 120 to have that cornerless, hemispherical effect you’ve always wanted.

Fisheye Submarine Underwater Case
Because it’s not everyday that you try underwater photography, it’s just right that when you’re about to go see the wonders of the ocean, your Fisheye is ready to dive with you. Fisheye Submarine Underwater Case is what you need for your Fisheye Camera to be able to capture those underwater moments and transform them into something artsy. This Lomo accessory fits Fisheye 1 and 2, and can withstand depth up to 20m (65 feet).

Diana+ Case
What could be more fashionable for your Diana+ cam than a genuine pebble-grain leather case? Built not just for aesthetics but also for function, this camera case is meticulously crafted with precision. It lets you shoot while your camera sits snugly in the case as it allows you to easily flip the lens cover down without removing the entire case. It also has a strap that allows you wear it around your neck or your wrist. This camera case also fits Diana F+.

Ringflash
Add a splash of color to your ordinary photo with Ringflash! Comes in different shades, these funky flashes can literally color your photos with even and radiant lighting. Easy to mount onto your Lomo cameras, these round colored gels fit perfectly onto Fisheye, Fisheye 2, LC-A, LC-A+, Diana and Holga.

If you haven’t bought anything for your babies yet, then what are you waiting for? Grab your Lomography cameras and pamper them like you’ve never done before. Buy them different mounts, lenses and cases and what have you. Cos now is the time to pimp that Lomo cam!

Holga Fisheye 120
Desperate to create the famous fisheye effect but you only got a Holga Camera? Well, now you can bring your Holga Camera into action with the Holga Fisheye 120 to have that cornerless, hemispherical effect you’ve always wanted.

Fisheye Submarine Underwater Case
Because it’s not everyday that you try underwater photography, it’s just right that when you’re about to go see the wonders of the ocean, your Fisheye is ready to dive with you. Fisheye Submarine Underwater Case is what you need for your Fisheye Camera to be able to capture those underwater moments and transform them into something artsy. This Lomo accessory fits Fisheye 1 and 2, and can withstand depth up to 20m (65 feet).

Diana+ Case
What could be more fashionable for your Diana+ cam than a genuine pebble-grain leather case? Built not just for aesthetics but also for function, this camera case is meticulously crafted with precision. It lets you shoot while your camera sits snugly in the case as it allows you to easily flip the lens cover down without removing the entire case. It also has a strap that allows you wear it around your neck or your wrist. This camera case also fits Diana F+.

Ringflash
Add a splash of color to your ordinary photo with Ringflash! Comes in different shades, these funky flashes can literally color your photos with even and radiant lighting. Easy to mount onto your Lomo cameras, these round colored gels fit perfectly onto Fisheye, Fisheye 2, LC-A, LC-A+, Diana and Holga.

If you haven’t bought anything for your babies yet, then what are you waiting for? Grab your Lomography cameras and pamper them like you’ve never done before. Buy them different mounts, lenses and cases and what have you. Cos now is the time to pimp that Lomo cam!

Frogeye is a camera that you have nothing to worry about when it comes to getting wet and getting busted, because it is especially built for underwater purposes. Great for your ultimate summer adventure at the beach, this lomo baby is without a doubt capable of capturing pictures under the deep blue sea. Frogeye has a full-wide angle lens and precise built-in flash that produces photos that surely justify the true beauty of what you’ll see while scuba diving, snorkeling or what have you.

Frogeye is the camera for your great ocean adventures! So the next time you plan to hit the beach, remember that this lomo friend of yours, Frogeye, is as essential as your swimsuit, suntan lotion, and your oversized shades! With this in your hand, you’re always ready to take the plunge and do some real underwater action with some clicks of the Frogeye’s shutter!

1991 – Austrian founders of Lomography discovered the Lomo LC-A. Lomography signed an exclusive distribution agreement with LOMO PLC, making them the sole distributor of all Lomo LC-A cameras outside of Russia.

1992, 1993 – Two Viennese students, Matthias Fiegl and Wolfgang Stranzinger discovered the Lomo Kompakt Automat and found the Lomographic Society International, with the aim of spreading the message of Lomography all over the world. Now, it has over 500,000 members.

1994, 1995 – The first international Lomo Exhibition is held in Moscow and New York simultaneously, displaying thousands of images. A couple of months later, Lomographic Embassy was established in Berlin and began to spread across the world in no time.

1996 – The Russian production plant stopped manufacturing cameras due to the high demand for Lomo Kompakt. The Lomo Optics factory of St. Petersburg successfully convinced Mr. Vladimir Putin to continue its steady supply.

1997 – Lomography has penetrated the Internet with the launching of lomography.com.

1998, 1999 – Actionsampler was introduced.

2000 – Supersampler was introduced at the Salone Del Mobile. Here, the massive annual design convention in Milan, the Lomographic Society International presented the Supersampler as the first camera to have been developed, designed and patented exclusively by a team of Lomographers.

2000, 2001 – The Lomo-Mauritius image Catalogue is released. It contained over 250 pages of glossy, bursting lomographic images – from both the LC-A and ActionSampler Format. Soon, the very first Lomographic Shop in the world was opened to the market.

Now that the craze over Lomography has gone mainstream big time, its success can actually be attributed to its colorful history, the people behind it who held up to their aim to promote Lomo throughout the world, and to the enthusiasts who “shoot as many impossible pictures as possible in the most impossible of situations from the most impossible of positions.”

Holga. Made of inexpensive materials and cheap as it may seem, a Holga toy cam often yields pictures that exhibit vignetting, blur, light leaks, and other distortions. All these make it capable of producing astonishing photos as if taken by a professional photographer.

Action Sampler Camera. The name itself states the obvious. A subject in motion or in action will most likely look great in photos when taken with the use of an Action Sampler. This small plas¬tic camera has a simple yet effective mechanism that takes four pic¬tures on a sin¬gle frame, with an 0.22 sec¬ond delay be¬tween each. That’s yes, you guess it right, four photos in a single click of a shutter!

Fisheye Camera. This has special built-in wide angled lenses (also known as fisheye lenses) capable of producing fisheyed-distorted images forming a spherical globe shaped effect.

The idea behind Lomography and Lomo cams can be accounted to the increasing popularity of casual and snapshot photography that incorporate effects such as over exposure, blurring, over-saturated colors, etc. Enthusiasts find these effects rather fun and creative than unacceptable mistakes in photography.

If you’re an aspiring professional photographer or simply a photo enthusiast, here are the things that you might want to consider in pursuing your dream job or the hobby that you love:

• Never miss a photo opportunity. When a friend invites you to an event, say a dance or a costume party, don’t forget to bring with you your favorite camera.
• Do shoot in bursts. Shooting in burst in events such as weddings, debuts, and the likes gives you a chance to capture real emotions. This also is also gives you a lot of options in choosing the right pictures—if the subject blinks in one frame, chances are, the other frames captured the subject that is not blinking.
• Remember, in photography and even in lomography, timing is everything. Watch out for the moments that are loaded with much emotion. Capturing real emotions creates real drama to your photograph that even if the picture is raw, as in without photo enhancements done whatsoever, the image will turn out to be dramatic enough because of the subject. This perfect moment shot is best taken with a close up or an extreme close up.
• It’s not only the real emotions that can create drama to your image. You can also use films such as black and white or sepia. This helps shift your audience’s attention to the subject that’s standing out instead of subject blending with the background.
• Putting drama and character to a photograph is made easy with cameras that are preloaded with different effects. Like Lomography cameras—Fisheye, Holga, Colorsplash, etc—you can be like a pro without having a hard time adding the desired effects.

These are just some of the tips that will help you capture that perfect moment shot, producing nice pictures. Who knows, perhaps you can host your small exhibit with those.

Cameras have indeed gone a long way in the world of Photography in terms of style, design, and technology. From the oldest of the olds to the most high-tech cameras, we have seen little to significant differences but the idea behind creating a camera is still the same—the objective is to record or capture images. So if you have the same objective, which is to simply take pictures, you can actually grab and use anything that has a viewfinder, lens and shutter in it (if you know what I mean). However, we always want a photo that is extraordinary, dramatic, something that is full of life. That’s why it is always important that we choose a camera that will give us the effect we want on our pictures.

Some cameras, particularly those instamatics, also known as point and shoot, create images that have, let’s just say, nothing fancy. In short, dull and boring images. Digital SLR’s (Single Lens Reflex) on the other hand are too techie to use although they would definitely give an impressive outcome. Also, when a photo is shot digitally, you can edit them with the use of a computer to achieve the desired effect. Some people who prefer simple and fun over a complicated and serious photo shoot experience choose Lomography cameras instead.

Lomography cameras are unlike your usual gadget! These cameras specialize in casual and fun and non-traditional photography. They give your pictures the effect you want them to have—blurry,burst or multiple framed, wide angled, fisheye effect, or underwater, oversaturated colors, over exposed, under exposed, and many more. Lomography cameras are definitely much simpler and fun to use. No need for formal education on Photography whatsoever, and no need to master the craft of enhancing images as well.

So what are the odds that you could come up with great images? Well, let’s just say, your photos can never go wrong with Lomography. With lomo cams, your images will always exude the drama and effect you’ve always wanted!