[lJ.]

I was wondering if anyone knew more information about these cameras.
I am a beginner. They are both 35mm film cameras.
How much would it cost to get the pictures printed?
These are the cameras:

UrbanOutfitters.com > Fisheye Camera

UrbanOutfitters.com > Lomography Diana Mini 35mm Camera

Thank you very much!

[jcdill]

I was wondering if anyone knew more information about these cameras.
I am a beginner. They are both 35mm film cameras.
How much would it cost to get the pictures printed?
These are the cameras:

UrbanOutfitters.com > Fisheye Camera

UrbanOutfitters.com > Lomography Diana Mini 35mm Camera

Thank you very much!!

Neither one of these are good cameras for a beginner. For a beginner, you should get a basic 35mm camera with the usual adjustments - (shutter speed, aperture, film speed, focus) so that you can learn how all these adjustments work together to produce different types of photos. The cameras you listed are very specialized, not general purpose cameras. Until you know how to master a general purpose camera you won't understand how to get the most out of either of those cameras.

You can buy a general purpose 35mm film camera used from craigslist or eBay for a fairly low price these days because so many people are moving from film to digital.

[lJ.]

I actually have a film camera already which may be 35mm. Thanks for answering.
Also, could you explain lomography cameras?
I may buy a fisheye camera or a fisheye lomography camera.

[lJ.]

Does anyone know what lomography [I know it's a company] exactly is. What photographic effect does it create with those types of cameras?
Also does fisheye and fisheye lomography always have vignetting. Thanks!

[cdad]

Its distorted veiws of the world around you. The actual edges aren't straight. They are bent. As in a circle. Typical 50mm lens produces about 28 degrees of viewing. That's what the world looks like through 1 eye. If you close 1 eye that's the approximate.

This lens for lemography shoots at 170 degrees. It looks almost like a bubble. Hence the name fisheye.

Look here for more information on lomography and the world wide community it serves.

About on Lomography

[jcdill]

I was wondering if anyone knew more information about these cameras.
I am a beginner. They are both 35mm film cameras.
How much would it cost to get the pictures printed?
These are the cameras:

UrbanOutfitters.com > Fisheye Camera

UrbanOutfitters.com > Lomography Diana Mini 35mm Camera

Thank you very much!!

It would help if you could explain what you know about photography, and what your photographic interests are.

Most people who shoot with film (today) start with black and white film and develop their own negatives and prints to fully understand (and control) the photographic process, before progressing to color film. If you aren't going to do that, then you may not want to shoot film.

[jcdill]

Lomography is a style of photography, the type of photos produced from a Lomo camera. These are really cheap (poor quality) cameras that produce a number of poor photographic effects in the images, including lack of sharpness (because of the cheap lens) and vignetting. See this post about how to create this effect on any photo using software editing (photoshop):

After the Lomo photography look

A fish eye lens (on any type of camera) is a very wide angle lens and will produce a distorted view with curved edges. It has nothing to do with lomography - you can usually add a fisheye adaptor to any camera lens.

[lJ.]

Thank you for answering.
What is a holga camera?
I am a beginner in photography and I have no specific interest to be honest, I am just researching different cameras, and I think I'm going to get a holga 35mm camera or a fisheye lomo [lo-fi] camera. And I know these are not professional cameras, I didn't think they were, I just think they would be interesting to use.

[lJ.]

I decided on the Holga 35mm camera.