Lomo Pro

Lomography is the single greatest scam that photography has seen.

>Take shit tier camera and recreate it with quirky colours
>Find expired bunk film
>Mark up the price by 5000%
>Sell to naive hipsters

Like you can do all this shit for nearly free but because it's bottom of the barrel stuff.

Instant cameras are really fun to use if you follow some basic composition rule and use regular film, something that lomography highly discourages. That's why lomography is pure shit that can't be considered photography

It's not lomo if you think about it and try to get an acceptable result. If you do that, it's actual photography in the "toy/instant camera" medium.

For example, people shooting skateboarding stuff, things that can end up in a magazine like, with a flash Holga. Not lomo: there's control of the moment, premeditated flash dragging, composition, all that stuff.

Some of the toy camera hipsters are really hard purists - it's not "true" if your camera has a focusing screen, is not totally plastic and so on. I guess any scene gets infected with them at some point.

To me Lomo stuff can be cool, but I don't really pay any attention to the scene. I just shoot expired film on a Holga sometimes.

For "Lomo pro" look up e.g. Daido Moriyama's T-82 book, it's shot with a Holga.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictorialism

The culture that the company sells is not something I'm into. However, my dislike of the people that buy into that didn't stop me from buying one of their cameras. The Instant Wide, which I bought because it's actually better than the Fuji 300.