My new cameras arrived today, and already I've gone through two rolls (the seemingly prerequisite trial rolls). And I'm halfway through the roll of 120 film.
The
Holga 120SF came in very bare packaging - a box that says camera, and a small instruction booklet, and this giant heap of plastic (since 120 film is medium format. 35mm is small, I suppose).I hope I got it loaded up right. I've got some black and white 120 film in there right now. It's very very easy to shoot over a picture (which can be nice in some instances).
The
LC-A 35mm came in beautiful packaging - including two rolls of ASA100 film (apparently the LC-A gets its best colors on 100 film), and a small square hardbound book full of photos and austrian words (an accompanying book all in newsprint has translations, I believe). The camera was in a beautifully wrapped brick. The wrapping was just white paper with black string, and two stickers - one in the center with heavily inked serif letters stating the cameras name and operating temperatures with a purple-inked packaging date; and a small red sticker in the lower left corner stating
made in russia. Underneath the wrapping paper, the plastic brick had another layer of wrapping - this time blue with red and yellow stamp art. Inside of that, was the plastic brick containing the camera. The bottom half was black, the top half clear, with half-stickers on the side with red-on-bronze text with the word "Lomo". The camera, batteries, and wristband were all inside wrapped nicely and tightly in tissue paper.
The
Supersampler came in some pretty cool packaging as well - not as nice as the
LC-A, but still nice.
And now there's the
Pop 9 to get - a camera that takes nine identical pictures on a single 35mm frame. And Lomo's started offering the
Loreo, a camera that takes 3D (Stereoscopic) pictures on normal 35mm film. I'm thinking, however, that the
Loreo and the
Holga are not
Lomo products, but rather cameras that fit The Lomography Way. And these cameras seem to have some history of their own - many people I spoke to at local film shops/labs recognized the name Holga more than Lomo. What appears to be a new article calling the Loreo the
Camera of the Month has no mention of Lomo anywhere in the article.
Still, these two cameras are on my wish list. Film rules.