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Photographer Jason Hull has creatively repurposed non-working vintage cameras of the 50s-60s into nightlights for his house. We’re pretty sure we want some. (When they’re available online, we’ll let you know too.)

via PetaPixel

Lomography finally puts their photos on the move with their new retro-inspired crank-driven LomoKino-Super 35 Movie Maker camera. By using any of your favorite 35mm films you can create roughly 45 seconds of footage with 144 or so little images (24mm x 8.5mm). Then all you LomoMovie makers need to do is load it up into their new LomoKinoScope, point it at a light source and enjoy the fruits of your directorial labor. Lomography is also allowing people to upload and share their movies online.

Here’s one of the first released silent short films using the LomoKino, Ghost of the Beach by Satomi Sugiyama.

Tech Details:

Retail Price: $79 for the Lomokino, $99 for the Lomokino + lomokinoscope
Film type: all kind of 135 roll film
Lens: 25mm
Exposure area: 24mm x 8.5mm: 144 images/film
Continuous Aperture: f/5.6 – f/11
Shutter: 1/100
Hand-cranked: approx. 3-4 fps, 36-48 sec. movie per roll
Focusing: (normal) 1m~infinity,(press button for) 0.6m close up
Tripod mount: yes
Website: www.microsites.lomography.com/lomokino


Update: If you’ve been wondering how it works, our friend @xo_azuree found the Lomokino production notes.

Polaroid’s new camera is here. The Z340, features an onboard Zink 3″x4″ printer, an LCD viewfinder, and a 14- megapixel sensor. It can print also print pictures in around 30 seconds, giving you a smudge-proof and water-proof print. One cool thing about it being digital is that you can choose what you print without wasting paper on a bad picture.

One drawback may be the price, which is $299.

Available now at Polaroid.com

via techradar

So photographer Tyler Card, apparently has a lot of time on his hands and is looking to sweep costume contests throughout the land this halloween season with his fully functional camera costume.

It has it all, a built in LCD screen, built-in flash and working shutter release button. If that’s not enough he can wirelessly fire off his strobes to capture all the party action.

Here’s a look at the camera in action:

And here’s how it was made.

Nice job Tyler!

via @Blurbbooks

This week, Lytro finally unveiled to the world their light field camera, a revolutionary camera/software system that captures the entire light field, not just a single plane of light like your SLR. The revolutionary thing about this camera is their “living pictures” capability which allows the photographer and the viewer the ability to change the focus of the photo after the fact. Since you’re capturing all the light, there isn’t the shutter delay or auto-focus problems so you can instantly capture the picture you want and worry about the focus later. This is something I’d definitely like to play with.

Here’s a video explaining a little bit about how you interact with the photo experience:

Here’s a cross-section of the technology (slightly larger than true size). Alot of people have wondered what resolution this camera is capable of and it’s a little vague, (measured in millions of light rays), but Petapixel has estimated the size of the sensor to be similar to that of the fujifilm X10 camera.

There are two basic models of the camera the 16GB version (red) $499 and the 8GB version (blue, grey) $399. While this is a consumer version of the camera, features like this may be something we see in all kinds of cameras in the future. The Lytro is set to ship in early 2012.

Here’s a hands on look:

Via @laughingsquid and @petapixel

New to our Must-Have wish list is Lomography’s newly released Caviar Edition of the fun La Sardina Series cameras. These new 35mm cameras, the Beluga (red) and the Czar (blue) take on a similar shape to their plastic sea worthy cousins, but have been remade in long-lasting brass with fun engravings. Even their new flash, Fritz the blitz has been updated in brass for this edition. They’re not cheap, drifting in at $179 a piece, but they should be with you for a long time.

Here’s a glimpse at Paris-based designer Charlie Nghiem’s Rotor Digital Camera concept which features a column of rotor dials you use to control the camera instead of actual buttons. The major downsides of a design like this could be the accidental change of mode if you have large fingers or the accidental pocket mode change you’ve likely experienced on so many point-and-shoot cameras.(You pull the camera out to quickly get a shot and after the moment is gone you’ve realized you were shooting in the wrong mode.) Regardless, it’s nice to see some fun design out there on the interwebs.

Via Designboom + laughingsquid

Over the last month I’ve had some hands on time with the fun little red 35mm El Capitán camera, my favorite from the newly released La Sardina Series by Lomography. This camera has been a lot of fun and has turned a lot of heads wondering if it was actually made from a sardine can from which it was inspired.

The El Capitán and its sister cam the blue Fischer’s Fritze were the first to boast Lomo’s new adjustable Fritz the Blitz flash which I had to get my hands on. I loved the ability finally adjust the power of the flash. The power control is based on the distance of the subject you are shooting. It worked pretty well and the new colored flash caps (red, yellow, blue, white) are much easier to use than the previous little gel slips. I liked the results of the yellow and the white diffuser caps much more than the blue caps. It was cool to have some really nice and warm colored snaps of my son that look a lot like the old summer pics of me as a child.

Lomography is known for their fun cameras, but also their packaging. The La Sardina series is no exception with the marine influenced packaging consisting of nets and ship’s wheels and other nautical symbols. This package also comes with cool fold-out poster manual and creative little La Sardina book that has exposed threaded edges. The book features their 10 Golden Rules of Lomography along with tons of shots from the La Sardina cameras of boats, old men, ropes and all-things-sea. Some people I’ve talked to wish they could get the cameras without all the excessive packaging, but as a designer I appreciate the little fun details of the experience they provide.

When I had the camera with me I didn’t take myself to seriously and just had fun snapping away with family and friends. One drawback of the adjustable focusing lens onboard was that I sometimes forgot to switch it in the moment. I’d be upclose shooting to infinity or vice-versa. I like the feature, but I need to pay more attention to what I have it set on. I was happy with the images I shot both on 100 and 800 speed films. The 800 was a bit grainy, but there’s no denying it’s actually film and not some instagram filter. All-in-all I had a lot of fun with the camera and I smiled every time I took it out with me to shoot and pretty much everyone who saw me with it smiled as well.

Some La Sardina Tech Facts:

Film type: 35mm
Lens Focal length: 21mm
Aperture: Fixed f/8
Shutter speed: Bulb(B), 1/100 (N)
Focusing steps: Two Step 0.6m, 1m-infinity
Film Counting: Auto Film Counting
Multiple exposures: Yes
Flash contact: For Fritz the Blitz flash only
Price: El Capitán $99, Frischer Fritze $99, Marathon $59, Sea Pride $59

Get yours at Lomography.com or your local lomography dealer.

While we here at Cameraluv think you should be shooting with and appreciating your cameras, we can’t help but love the beautiful high-speed images Staudinger + Franke have created by exploding a Polaroid and Eumig camera.

via laughingsquid

Here’s a little fun camera art called Point and Shoot from SoCal based designer Brian Hurst. Loving the textures here, good stuff Brian!

(via abe vizcarra)