Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-13-2014, 06:06 PM
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I feel you sister. I'm waiting till dusk to head out and finish a roll of Tri-X so I can develop it tonight.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-12-2014, 11:43 AM
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That's really the answer for in-camera lo-fi looks with digital. Either that or do it in PS.
I don't know what to think of a digital camera that is designed to look like a plastic Diana. The render of that "Digital Holga" seems a more appropriate design choice because it isn't trying to disguise itself as it's analog counterpart. If one wants an in-camera lo-fi look for their images there are number of ways to go about it; Hipstamatic is one but buying an old digital P&S with a crappy lens seems the most obvious, a Holga lens for one's DSLR is another, using in-camera filters like those on the Q yet another. Although the images produced by the above means might possess a lo-fi quality they still wouldn't be much of a comparison to what has been termed "Lomography".
One of the defining elements of Lomography is the somewhat unpredictable nature of the various elements involved; plastic lenses, light leaks, obscure film stocks, expired film, cross processing and unusual developer choices, etc. It's not just about soft focus. Some while back the "style" of the Diana and Holga cameras were embraced as something of a fashion statement by many (Dianas for the girls, Holgas for the boys), however, the main draw and endurance beyond accessorization even amongst so called hipsters seems to have been that they were then and remain to this day film cameras. Their homely communist era design, cheap as it is, has always followed function even in Holga's more outlandish versions.
I wonder how a camera designed too look like something it is not, a digital camera designed to pose as a plastic film camera, it's form not a result of it's function, will appear and be accepted by those even slightly in the know. I'll be on the lookout for Digital Diana's at the next Brewery Artwalk to see. ---------- Post added 09-12-14 at 11:47 AM ----------
Were it not for the risk of contamination I would say, "Do it!" Maybe by not completely attaching the lens you can get light to leak onto the sensor.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-12-2014, 10:37 AM
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Or trying to painstakingly re-create in post. :D
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-12-2014, 02:23 AM
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Lomography, by definition, is not digital. It is, again by definition, analog; i.e., film based. This guy is just co-opting a term he either doesn't understand, or hopes others don't. http://www.lomography.com/about/timeline |