The LOMO factory (originally Leningrad Optical Mechanical Association) was established in 1914 in Petrograd (today Saint Petersburg) as a French-Russian limited company to produce lenses and cameras. During the Soviet era, the factory went through several reorganisations and was one of the most secretive companies producing optics for military and space programs, as well as consumer cameras like LOMO LC-A.
The LOMO cameras are copies of famous cameras: Liubitel is known as “the poor man Rolleiflex”, Voomp I is a copy of Leica and these are just a few examples. On top of the LOMO LC-A, probably the most popular cameras made by LOMO are the Diana series which are copies of the Diana made in the 60’s in Hong Kong by the Great Wall Plastic Factory.
Lomography is a photographic movement started in the early 1990’s that has it’s origin in Vienna where a group of students were fascinated by the unique look of photos created by the LOMO LC-A compact camera. Lomography is a company that produces film wich creates colour shifting. LomoChrome is a well known and established named today. Being a handmade film it has a unique characteristic: a variation in colour shifting is possible between different batches.
I’m not a fan of colour shifting but I do like to experiment. So what better experiment than loading a roll of 120 LomoChrome Purple into a Lomo camera aka my Liubitel 166? I let the images speak for themselves.
Pretty cool. Kind of reminds me playing Sokoban in "4 color" CGA (was like pink/purple, white and some sort of green) (https://www.uvlist.net/game-161293-Sokoban) ;-)
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