The camera’s top deck sports a shutter lock and selector switch for normal or bulb modes. Olympus Trip 35: The holidaymaker’s favourite.Loading film is a typical experience if you’ve shot toy cameras before – usually the third attempt is the charm – and when advancing the ratcheted plastic thumbwheel, watch for the rewind knob rotating to satiate the nagging doubt your film hasn’t loaded correctly. Round the back the film door feels slightly insubstantial although light-tight no light-leaks so far. The cap is attached to the wrist strap though handy since it falls off every couple of seconds.
But then it’s all undone by the details, like a rubberised lens cap that doesn’t quite fit. Many rolls later, what of that fabled Lomo build quality and use? The all glass lens of the Fisheye 2 is nattily constructed, sturdily wrapped in heavy duty aluminium to lend weight and an appearance of quality that Lomo cameras usually seek to avoid. I picked up a White Knight special edition cheap, but a rummage in the fridge turned up just a solitary roll of Kodak Tri-X, not nearly as colourful or as crappy a test roll as the situation called for.īut who’d have thunk it? The results were beautiful and experimental there was something about the altered perspective and endless depth-of-field all rendered in Tri-X’s inimitable soot and whitewash that just sent me.
#LOMOGRAPHY FISHEYE 2 CRACK#
One I was sure would crack easily was the Lomography Fisheye 2 I’d been hankering to try one since ’The One Show’ piece. “Feed your head,” the Jefferson Airplane said, so I dug out my dad’s old Zenit-11 from decades of mothballs and journeyed down the rabbit hole of film photography.Īlong the way I met some interesting cameras: some stuck around, some talked jive and folded under questioning. My mind was reeling and everything looked like the cover of ‘ Mr Tambourine Man’ or the opening credits of ‘Hawaii Five-O’ : mid-60s a go-go.
Congruity never was the remit of ‘ The One Show’, the BBC’s end-of-the-pier magazine programme, but this segue from Lomography to an OAPs’ knitting group in Burnley was jarring even by the presenters’ usual standards. KF article top The Lomography Fisheye 2 – plastic and fantastic? (All pics: Ronnie Brandon)įlipping channels one summer’s evening a handful of years ago I happened across a BBC1 feature about an analogue film revival.
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