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  • Lomography: The Digital Photo Sceptics Strike Back [digital copies,upload,process analogue]

    08/21/2011 4:45:30 PM PDT · by fight_truth_decay · 45 replies
    Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 7:20AM BST 20 Aug 2011 | Shane Richmond, Head of Technology
    As digital photography grows, an analogue company, Lomography, is growing interest in its range of striking and unusual cameras. When a pair of Austrian students found an old Russian camera, the Lomo Kompakt Automat, in the early 1990s, they were surprised and delighted by the unpredictable images it produced. The saturated colours and slightly blurry photos had a distinctive look. The pair travelled to Saint Petersberg in Russia to sign a worldwide distribution deal with the manufacturer. The Lomography movement grew quickly, with users all over the world returning to analogue ways just as digital photography was growing in popularity....