New LOMO MC-A

[Mos6502]

Looks quite interesting. I'm still holding onto the idea that Pentax will reveal a full frame version of the 17, given the film path is large enough to accommodate it, which is an odd design choice for a half frame camera.

Tangentially, it's been interesting to see the evolution of the Lomography brand, from a reseller/brander of existing products using advertising gimmickry to make sales to those who didn't know any better, to being practically the last company dedicated to keeping film photography "relevant" and film cameras on the market.

 

[TenEleven]

The lens is marked as a "Minitar II." Based on some of the sample images and the video, the sharpness (both center and corner) does seem to be improved. But maybe I could just never nail focus with the LC-A well enough to judge the lens.

The original Minitar definetly had some Lomography thing going on. I briefly tried the LTM version. At smaller apertures it was not too egregious but yeah ... I mean their name is Lomography!

(They have made some truly excellent LTM lenses though!)

That all said as you and others have said the Minitar II samples look to be more standard fare. I am going to guess it's going to be a so-so performance wide open (most compacts even the mythical T3 do not that great at full aperture) and then get pretty good at the kind of apertures you'd use for snapshots anyway.

Edit: Just realized that manual advance means that it will not do this dumb thing that almost every Japanese compact does - where it pulls out a ton of film before starting frame #1. Some of these cameras (Minolta TC-1!) are quite small and thus waste a lot of film. That was totally not collusion by the way, no siree!