VIDEO: Lomokino lets you shoot that motion picture epic, a minute at a time
Dan Seitz 35mm film was, for the longest time, the holy grail of filmmakers. It had the best color response, the best image, and said you were a serious filmmaker. And now everybody loves digital and 35mm film is the domain of painfully twee hipsters. How the mighty have fallen. But the camera is still cool.
Before we start, we do apologize in advance for the video; it really is pretty lame (although the other videos are so, so much worse). But despite the fact that Lomo seems to be going out of their way to market this in the most annoying possible way, it’s still an impressive piece of gear for eighty bucks.
You just slot in your typical still camera film and turn the hand crank: that’s it. The lens isn’t great: it starts at f5.6 and goes up to f11, and the shutter speed is locked at 1/100. Also, the images are going to be herky-jerky: your average 35mm film camera has 36 frames of images, and movies are shot at 24 frames per second, so…yeah.
Also, it being a Lomo, which is mostly famous not for making good products but for being a Russian company that made terrible products that still shot interesting pictures (old Lomo lenses go for big bucks), the images are not going to be smooth, either. But that’s part of the charm. At least until the hipsters ruin it. Here, have a video:
Teaser 1 -Shop detail page from Lomography on Vimeo.
Lomokino Is Lomography’s Dinky 35mm Video Camera [Gizmodo]
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