I finally understand the term "Hipster"

I will get my brain around this eventually ... I think!

My father was right after all. 😱

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Gregoryniss said:
someone asked me today if my M3 was a lomo camera... GRRR!!
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some weeks ago a guy at a bar pointed at my R-D1 and asked if it was a lomo. yes, cos it looks like a weird cheap toy camera (collapsible rubber hood too!). great for me, lower odds of being mugged, maybe? 😉

i started on analogue with a holga, but gladly i then started using my late granpa's Yashica Lynx 1000 and a Zeiss Ikon Ikonta. it made me fall in love with antique cameras and with rangefinders.

if few of those who buy lomocrapy cameras end up actually getting more mature and realising how standardised it is and try new, better things, i think it's great.

also, with more people buying film, they tend to stick around for longer, maybe?
 
a certain frontier, for me, is crossed when I walk into one of these 'lomo-stores', getting disgusted looks from pretty much everyone inside, because I have, say, a leica or a mamiya hanging from my shoulder ("eww rich snob dude, what does he want in our cool hip store for poor people" 😀 yeah of course.), and THEN getting confused looks from the young mister at the desk when I tell him (after having to point several times at the roll of HP5 I was talking about until he got it) that something about 7€ for one 120 roll of HP5 is a bit too much for me.

apart from that no problem, as long as they keep buying film and I don't have to spend what they spend on crap. I even thought, that the original idea of lomography (the photographic aspect, not the econimical one... although they have a more and more intense connection here!) wasn't too shabby.
but why don't people just buy an old agfa click or something instead of these apocalyptically overpriced holgas and dianas?
 
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I quite like my Holga in small doses, but I got mine off ebay for £25, and half that was the p&p from Hong Kong.
Although I have to admit I get better quality images from my Kodak No.2 Brownie!
 
SimonSawSunlight said:
a certain frontier, for me, is crossed when I walk into one of these 'lomo-stores', getting disgusted looks from pretty much everyone inside, because I have, say, a leica or a mamiya hanging from my shoulder ("eww rich snob dude, what does he want in our cool hip store for poor people" 😀 yeah of course
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I've been there before...and to make matters worse, some guy who knew nothing about photography looked at my M8 and told the lady behind the counter at the Lomo store in NYC that she must love my camera... oh man, I thought she was going to explode from how uptight she looked...
 
It seems to me that the one thing that can be taken from all this, is that all the people who stick black tape over the distinguishing marks on their camera would do better to leave the 'Leica' on show so that no one mistakes it for a Lomo and wants to steal it. Black bodies should be out too, it can look to much like plastic.

It seems my Robot II is a 'steampunk' or 'dieselpunk' camera. I think these are 'hipster' subspecies.
 
I'd say it's a little more than a trend at this point - I remember going to an art event in DUMBO (Brooklyn) , maybe 2002 or 2003, where there was a fairly large display of Lomo prints and a massive slideshow using 8 Leica projectors. It was slick and well produced of course. I actually think it's kind of cool that there are still "kids" out there shooting film. I know part of it is bucking modern society, but it bothers me less than the over use of HDR these days....
 
thegman said:
Amazing how much discouragement and disparagement there is for young people getting out there and taking photos with film cameras.
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There represents the duality of the issue.

I am happy that LOMO folks are using film, but also wary that they may think that the crappy holga image is all that film can offer.

Eventually they give up or turn to digital programs, like the Hipstimatic Camera application for the iPhone.
 
How many hipsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Oh, it's a very obscure number. You've probably never heard of it.
 
Y'all need to get a grip. Criticizing someone for paying $200 for a LOMO, on a forum that worships Leica? Leica, with their $6000 lens that no pros actually use? With their incessant 'special edition' releases with ridiculous prices? A gold camera for a Sultan?

This all smacks too much of the geek table mocking the cool table in the junior high cafeteria. In between rolls of the D&D dice.
 
CK Dexter Haven said:
Y'all need to get a grip. Criticizing someone for paying $200 for a LOMO, on a forum that worships Leica? Leica, with their $6000 lens that no pros actually use? With their incessant 'special edition' releases with ridiculous prices? A gold camera for a Sultan?
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haha! you're right. not much difference between the two except price (percent markup probably similar though).

Jack has been busy! Here he is again lending his name to something...old. 😉

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=U_4Yk9FUwx0


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