I finally understand the term "Hipster"

Ahh Lomos are marked up even further and resold by Urban Outfitters. Urban even takes cheap off-brand film and repackages it at premium prices.

Consider that Electro 35 for $250 -- Urban and American Apparel have been selling overpriced "vintage" dresses at even more ridiculous mark-ups. Maybe we should start bundling up all our proper hipster cameras for resale to the big corporations?

And just so you know, Autocords, Yashica-Mats, Chamonix View Cameras, Electros, Horizants, Lomos, and old Polaroids are "cool". Holgas are too pedestrian nowadays. And Rolleicords, monorail view cameras, and older electronic SLRs, etc. are thankfully ignored. i don't think many hipsters are strong enough to lift, much less use, a Nikon F.

The Impossible Project, Crumpler, and manufacturers of bicycle messenger style bags are also in on the conspiracy.

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Only at that site would you see a Fed 1 for $230.00 😱

The photographic world is going to hipster hell via Lomography!
 
This is a big part of the reason I'm selling my sx-70, I want film that's usable, not an overpriced fad complete with funky chemistry and disappearing images. If I want vanishing 'art' I'll try ice sculpture!

Eli
 
The guys behind Lomo are nothing short of genius...take normal colour negative film and re-roll it backwards to create redscale! then charge through the teeth for it haha. But as much as we might like to grumble at the lunacy that is lomography at least it is introducing a whole new generation to the joys of analog photography!
 
the sad thing is so many people buy those cameras at those prices. a little searching and people would realize how over priced the "lomo" trend is.
 
Sometime in the late 70s (I think I still have the issue), National Lampoon had a sharp, hilarious and (obviously) politically-incorrect piece tracing the life of a Varsity sweater, from its initial presentation to a student, to said student handing it off to his kid sister, through several other hands over the course of five or so years (in and out of the country), and finally selling–much the worse for wear by now–in a Village boutique, for an outrageous sum, by the sort of guy the Kinks describe in "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" (which is where the un-PC part kicks in).

I've long felt the Lomography thing has worked in a similar manner. But if this trips someone's trigger, and they actually take snaps with the thing, what's it to me?


- Barrett
 
porktaco: Not bad. 😉

About the only thing that has me PO'd about the whole hipster thing is how you can't buy a decent, old-school (uh-oh...), lugged-steel road bicycle anymore without paying a relative fortune; they're being grabbed up to be made into fixies and single-speeds and whatnot. Cameras? Big deal...in two years Nikon F100s will be the shizzle, just you watch...(shall I procure one now, "just because?")


- Barrett
 
Damn...

And I just got my GSN 😡

(Not for $250, mind you...)

It's nice to know that lomography.com thinks my camera is "one of the most underrated cameras around". I can sleep well tonight.

koniczech

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This just popped into my mind when browsing the "With this product you can create photos like these." After a photo is taken and dv'd/printed, I can't even tell what camera took it. With people BS-ing vignetting and holga effects all day every day, its nice enough to hear when a photo on this site is untouched (not that i'm implying that people here 'shop holga effects all day every day). Hell, I can't even tell who takes the photo, let alone what they used. Kudos for companies that exploit the hipsters and take their $250 for a $30 camera.
 
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amateriat said:
But if this trips someone's trigger, and they actually take snaps with the thing, what's it to me?
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I agree. The only hipster I don't like is the type that thinks they are unique for doing this type of stuff. Reminds me of the book / blog "Stuff White People Like: The Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions."

I have no problem with Lomography unless they dismiss other forms of photography as inferior to this gimmick. Hell, I used Dianas and Holgas in the 90s and they were fun at times.
 
I think the OP's statement is a bold one, on a website dominated by Leica users. How do people justify an MP in favor of an M6? I'm not saying anyone should, but I don't complain about people buying overpriced plastic.

Why do people even care? Is it really mere boredom?

martin
 
I think that if you saw me on the street you may consider me a hipster. I am strong enough to lug my F3 around, though, and, instead of a Holga, I chose a Mamiya RB67 as my first medium format camera. The closest I got to lomography is my Olympus XA, and I kept all the speeds on my Schwinn Voyageur 11.8. I don't mind hipsters though. They are my friends. They consider their style and the results they want (a lot get RESULTS too), and they buy those things with the money they/their parents have. They are doing their part to keep companies selling film.

I am be glad to be called a hipster. It's a lot better than many stereotypes, and we all know about stereotypes. Right, leicaphiles?
 
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