Yes, the title of this post is a little silly but I like it so there.
How is it that I like the Lomo LCA so much? I often find a lot of the whole lomography craze to be about people taking bad photographs and passing them off as art. I cannot afford most of what the Lomography Society sell (although I do covet a lot of it). But I love my LCA.
Bought for a low, low price on eBay because of a shutter issue, fixed with new batteries and a bit of poking around with a biro – somehow it works for me. As a small electronic item made in the Soviet Union in the 1980’s it probably shouldn’t even be working anymore but it does – and it often gets great images. I know the lens is supposed to be soft but I have never really noticed that, most of my images seem to come out of it pretty well. The ones that don’t are much more likely to be down to user error than the camera.
It is a 35mm point and shoot camera for those unitiated into it’s marvels, there are some manual settings for the aperture but the meter works so well I rarely bother with them. You can manually adjust the focus distance too, though I am not great at judging the distances based on the results when I try this. It fits well in your hand and is simple to use, at least for those of us who grew up using a film camera.
Somehow this simpole camera is my camera of choice, I almost always have it on me and love using it. Sure, I have better quality film and digital cameras – but this is the one I always come back to. Why? I don’t know, it just has some sort of magic.
Floating Down The Maran . . . 