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Lomography does it again with today’s release of the fun new marine-inspired La Sardina Series. The four new 35mm cameras, El Capitán, Fischers Fritze, Sea Pride and Marathon all feature a 22mm wide-angle lens and have multiple exposure capability utilizing the MX setting. At $99, the El Capitán and Fischers Fritze feature Lomo’s new flash, Fritz the Blitz, which has 3 power settings (a huge improvement from their previous flashes). The Sea Pride and Marathon are available flash-free for a sweet $59.

When we received the teaser sardine can last week we couldn’t have imagined that the cameras themselves would be sardine can replicas. Nice job Lomo!

The wait is over and the new mystery camera, the LC-Wide from Lomography’s LC-A legacy has just been revealed. The LC-Wide features a 17mm Minigon glass lens with three shooting formats: full (36 x 24mm), square (24 x 24mm), or half-frame (17 x 24mm). In half-frame mode you’ll be able to get up to 72 shots on a standard 36 shot 35mm roll. While the LC-A has been with us analogue lovers for 27 years, they’ve never updated the in-camera lens until now.

The LC-Wide box ($389) comes loaded with several classic Lomo books, a shutter release cable, 2-rolls of film and more. For and extra $24.99, you can pick-up a instant back and skip the trip to the photolab. This is a great update to Lomography’s classic LC-A family and you can’t go wrong with a little splash of red on the front. Get yours today.

New to our Must-Have list is the Sprocket rocket in white, created especially for the Lomography Exhibition at Hong Kong Times Square. The camera takes 35mm film and has two scrolling knobs which allows you to move the film back and forth to create panoramas as well as multiple exposures. Get yours and go crazy.

This series of cameras, which released Monday by the team at Lomography were originally designed to commemorate Japan’s Golden Week (a time for celebration of Japanese culture and well-earned rest). Now they mean so much more, as they are a way for Lomography’s analog community to help support the ongoing relief effort going on in Japan. Each purchase of either the Diana Mini Jiyo, Diana F+ Kirameki, or the Fisheye 2 Shiawase will be contributed to Lomography’s donation of $20,000 EUR to the Red Cross.

In honor of the day of all things green, we’ve added the Dalek Edition SuperSampler to our Must-Have list. This multi-lens camera takes four sequential panoramic shots all on 35mm film. The SuperSampler package comes with the Urbanize book inside with lots of photo inspirations all for only US$60.00 at the lomography store.

The talented Jason Munn has been making music posters out of Oakland, CA for a while now under the name The Small Stakes. He recently relaunched his site and we spotted this new Ben Gibbard Poster that we have to have. Be sure to check out his book, THE SMALL STAKES Music Posters which came out last year.

New to our Must-Have list is the “Golden Half” 35mm camera. This half-frame camera can get you twice the shots per roll; so shoot single shots or tell a story with your juxtaposition of images. One of the cool things about this camera other than it’s compact size, is that there are a variety of models available. Get one, or all six at the Four Corners Store.

New to our Must-have list just in time for Valentine’s Day today, is the Take My Heart Diana F+ clone.  At just $99, this fun Adam-and-Eve-inspired analogue camera from Lomography can capture your romance in square format on 120 Film. The camera and accompanying packaging are covered in art and will be sure to please. Get yours or one for your luver today!

This updated Japanese digital “Zumi 2″ from Superheadz is a must-have in our book. What it lacks in size it makes up for in fun, dreamy stills and awesome vintagy 8mm-ish video. It cost’s around $170 at Photojojo and is capable of shooting in a variety of modes like Macro, Monochrome, Bold color, Nostalgic, Washed out and more. Here’s a sampling of some video shot on the Zumi that may make you want one too:

(Submitted by our friends at Avrett)

Fresh in the Lomography store today is the new Diana clone, “Love is in the Air” just in time for Valentine’s Day. At just $119, this fun little 35mm delight can’t help but make us smile. The camera and accompanying box are covered in clouds and fun typography saying “Love is in the Air”. Get yours or gift one.