Distinguished by its built-in wide-angle lens, the LC-Wide from Lomography is a 35mm film point-and-shoot that blends a unique perspective with compact convenience. The Minigon 1 ultrawide 17mm f/4.5 lens produces an expansive field of view along with the cherished Lomo image quality that is bright, colorful, and full of contrast with just the right amount of vignetting. Also contributing to creative shooting, a format selector switch lets you change from standard full 35mm format imagery to square and half-frame formats. For quick, intuitive shooting, the LC-Wide uses a programmed autoexposure mode along with shutter speeds up to 1/500 sec. Manual control over long-exposure shooting is possible with the bulb setting, and the multiple exposure setting lets you record numerous sequential exposures for creative effects.
Holiday Headstart
- 35mm Film Camera
- Minigon 1 Ultrawide 17mm f/4.5 Lens
- Full/Square/Half-Frame Format Selector
- Direct Optical Viewfinder
Lomography LC-Wide Overview
Lomography LC-Wide Specs
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Lomography LC-Wide Reviews
I so badly wanted to love this.....but I just didnt like it much
I LOVE wide angle lenses, I love simplicity, I love pocketability, and I love vignetting and funky arty lo-fi rendering. So yes...this was right in in the crosshairs of what I love. Yet I could not love this camera. Bottom line: Its fiddly, and its not a good value for the money. Its a $100 dollar (tops) camera with a $300 price tag. Ok. you can shoot half frame...and without the half frame mask bleed them together. Thats cool, I will give you that. The square frame option is pretty useless however. Its a mask: you get 36 square shots. Forget it. Just crop. Its fully program automatic, but no easy way to compensate, and the ISO dial limits you to full stops between 100 and 1600, and changing it is an exercise in using fingernails or the tip of a pen with a plastic pinwheel that feels like it will shear off. In fact, virtually everything on this camera feels like it is about to break. from opening the battery compartment to opening the film back. to rewinding the film (keep your finger held down on that rewind button...it wont lock) to winding the film with a thumbwheel which about took the skin off of the ball of my thumb after a roll of Tri-x. To the slide switch for opening the lens which feels less like a mechanical click than it does a plastic crunch. On the plus side, the imagery is cool. No denying that. But so are the images from a RETO Ultra Wide and Slim, for a fraction of the price. Frankly they are almost identical. Pocketability is wonderful. Its about the size of an Olympus XA, but picking up an XA after shooting this feels like going from a Diana to a Leica. I understand this is specialty low production camera and it is priced like one, but I didn't expect the quality to be this low. Maybe all of the production goes into the cute box it comes in, with the hefty wide book of pretty pictures and the bubble package with its glorious unboxing experience that probably makes it an internet wonder. For me however, the only wonder is mine....about how many of these get returned. I bet a lot. mine certainly did.