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Shooting with Lomography lenses

Shooting with Lomography lenses

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Shooting with Lomography lenses

- Another brand of lenses that have a long, rich history are those from Lomography. Now Lomography was originally a popular plastic camera brand, we've seen these pop up, the Lomo effect you might've heard of. They're sort of evocative of these cheap plastic lenses. Jim, why might you choose to shoot something on the plastic or a toy lens? - Well just to further distress the image from, you know, to get away from that digital crisp, sharp look that we're used to with today's digital cameras and modern lenses. - Yeah, and they've come up with a couple ones here, for example they have a three lens kit for micro four-thirds. This one here is deemed all part of their experimental kit, so this is a fisheye, and then we have one here that's a little bit more traditional. This is a 12 millimeter, that's sort of a wide angle lens, and it actually has removable gels there so you can shift the color there on purpose in the camera. Why might you put a plastic filter in like that? - Well this…

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