The Hong Kong-made toy cameras that triggered a retro photography trend

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  • Опубликовано: 7 янв 2025

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  • @marinelines
    @marinelines 11 месяцев назад +39

    Lomography cameras are very fun, and not meant to take the perfect photo. I recommend it for people who want to start shooting film, especially for 120 film. Eventually, you will decide whether you want to shoot medium format film, or revert back to digital/phone photography.

  • @trymyship517
    @trymyship517 11 месяцев назад +23

    I think it’s cool to photograph modern things like cities and cars and parks with older cameras. It gives them such a cool feeling like a mix from the future and the past

  • @stevenr.rodriguez9997
    @stevenr.rodriguez9997 11 месяцев назад +6

    That interviewed person seems so happy about the camera, seems like a cool guy

  • @verucasky
    @verucasky 11 месяцев назад +13

    Been a lomographer since early 2000s and I have several analog cameras like Holga, Diana+, Lomo LCA+ and a few action cameras and Pop9. It has been collecting dust since 2014 when I no longer had access to film processing studios. Lately I got a Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo and somehow it captured the aesthetic of my lomography days. It brought me nostalgia. However, it will still not replicate completely what I have experienced with my lomo cameras from the past. But it tries and I’m happy with that at least. Lately, I have started to revive my old digicams of the mid-2000s (those with CCD sensors where it produces a bit of film-like images from the shots.) Again, it does not completely mimic what I feel with my lomo cameras but I just think of it as a tribute to my lomo era. I’m fine with that for now.

    • @BIKE_LLECI
      @BIKE_LLECI 10 месяцев назад

      You can shove Instax film in lots of cameras and then swap the film back in a dark room.
      I’ve been experimenting with old cameras by using this method.
      Way cheaper than processing film 🫡

  • @NorbiWhitney
    @NorbiWhitney 11 месяцев назад +2

    Great piece! I've been a very active member of the analog community for many years, and a strong supporter of Lomography products, but this was the first I heard about their direct "collaboration" with Putin. That kind of blew my mind. Super interesting video, thanks for sharing.
    (Buuuut... at 2:57 you mention 120mm film, which doesn't exist. It's just called 120.)

  • @Seele2015au
    @Seele2015au 11 месяцев назад +1

    2:49 There's no "120mm film": 120 is the Kodak three-digit code for a rollfilm of that particular specification.
    3:12 There's no "analogue photography" as "analogue" is not the opposite of "digital". When quartz watches became available, there were two display types: digital, and a dial with hands which was analogous to the established mechanical watches, thus "analogue display". Therefore, the term "analogue photography", viz. "film photography as an analogue to film photography", makes no sense.
    The Holga-style photography was a more modern incarnation of the first Diana photography wave, started by an American photography teacher: she wanted to free her student from getting distracted the camera operation side, so they could concentrate on taking pictures. The rest, as they say, is history.
    Lomography was started by two Austrian marketing students who became exceedingly wealthy, but the flip side is that they gave the public the wrong impression that film photography is inherently of very poor quality.

  • @progyandas9650
    @progyandas9650 11 месяцев назад +4

    Brilliant episode .

  • @maronin5215
    @maronin5215 11 месяцев назад +2

    Its like impressionism in a can.

  • @user-rh6ru5oz2o
    @user-rh6ru5oz2o 11 месяцев назад

    Love the episode. Much better than Mill Milks episode on the same subject

  • @DrGinger1
    @DrGinger1 10 месяцев назад

    I had one of these as a child in the 80's

  • @raceface_m2579
    @raceface_m2579 11 месяцев назад

    This is actually a great explanation.

  • @mareecuree
    @mareecuree 11 месяцев назад

    holga was made in hong kong.. something new i learned today

  • @MeiinUK
    @MeiinUK 21 день назад

    Now I get why kodak went bankrupt... I had no idea. And the association isn't there.... I hope that Kodak continue to remake these old films again.

  • @thingthangthong
    @thingthangthong 11 месяцев назад +1

    Hongkong no.1 🇭🇰
    From china

  • @throughtanlens
    @throughtanlens 11 месяцев назад +1

    i love holga

  • @MarcoCasse69
    @MarcoCasse69 11 месяцев назад

    the Holga is my favorite toy camera
    very interesting video

  • @staciwashington3212
    @staciwashington3212 11 месяцев назад

    Who is he?

  • @Zung92
    @Zung92 11 месяцев назад

    I need your Support with my DIY 35mm camera. Please give me a vote for Lego ZH1 Camera on lego ideas 🙏🏻

  • @lancecahill5486
    @lancecahill5486 11 месяцев назад

    Arts and beauty are in the eye of the beholder, so any photo can become a piece of art because you think it is. In reality, you don’t need to buy any of the old cameras to create the blurry effect that you want. Just manually adjust the shutter speed, aperture, the ISO on your current camera. And yes, you can shake your hand while taking the photo too!

  • @staciwashington3212
    @staciwashington3212 11 месяцев назад

    This Krishna Ram?

  • @prempromonohandoko
    @prempromonohandoko 11 месяцев назад +1

    why the last guy sounds like Lok Cheung (the partner of Kaiman Wong)? 😁😁😁

  • @staciwashington3212
    @staciwashington3212 11 месяцев назад

    Reeves...

  • @riadyl3311
    @riadyl3311 11 месяцев назад

    Tiu lei..

  • @NaokoandNeil
    @NaokoandNeil 11 месяцев назад +4

    I like Hong Kong women 😊

    • @Hkchinese888
      @Hkchinese888 11 месяцев назад +4

      pork chop

    • @misterbig9025
      @misterbig9025 11 месяцев назад

      me too...I wish they like Indian men

    • @wynn3077
      @wynn3077 11 месяцев назад

      @@ToiChutGongWuHello paranoid Pat😂

    • @Hkchinese888
      @Hkchinese888 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@ToiChutGongWu Hi, se7en

    • @wynn3077
      @wynn3077 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@Hkchinese888 Mums called se7en home.

  • @Hkchinese888
    @Hkchinese888 11 месяцев назад +7

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    • @el-_-grando-_-_-scabandri
      @el-_-grando-_-_-scabandri 11 месяцев назад

      Copy-past ... truly an amazing skill you have here, where did you learn it Kummar?

    • @Hkchinese888
      @Hkchinese888 11 месяцев назад +7

      2月3日,河南信陽一體育館發生坍塌事故,當地政府稱,場館系被積雪壓塌,事故發生時場館處於停工狀態,一無人員傷

    • @wynn3077
      @wynn3077 11 месяцев назад +6

      @@ToiChutGongWuHello paranoid Pat 😂

    • @Hkchinese888
      @Hkchinese888 11 месяцев назад +7

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    • @Hkchinese888
      @Hkchinese888 11 месяцев назад +7

      @@el-_-grando-_-_-scabandri
      yak se lar
      🤣🤣

  • @benhasacat
    @benhasacat 11 месяцев назад

  • @RadicalFloat_95
    @RadicalFloat_95 11 месяцев назад

    This video is actually genuinely underated and this is actually the actual real China that the actual American and British BBC propaganda mainstream media actually don't show you is actually really like and actually capable of actually doing and damm

    • @Ttui89.
      @Ttui89. 11 месяцев назад +1

      no, this channel is wumao propaganda

    • @MeiinUK
      @MeiinUK 21 день назад

      As a Cantonese from the UK... I never knew the association... No wonder HK was so full of entrepreneurial mindsets..... I'm beginning to connect more now to my parents and grandparents era. I have my father's old camera. As well as some of my old plastic cameras from the 1980s too. :)

  • @randomname9758
    @randomname9758 11 месяцев назад

    This is so dumb. You could do the exact same thing on the filter and not have to buy film.
    Funny how people strive for imperfection when they can just set a filter for it.

    • @rjbiii
      @rjbiii 11 месяцев назад +8

      MAYBE IT'S FUN???

  • @harrykekgmail
    @harrykekgmail 11 месяцев назад

    a very interesting documentary.