From digital to analog despite all my own arguments!
Photo by elvismartinezsmith
I’ve always liked photography… When I was young it was tradition at home to snap all moments of life, from birthday parties to picnis and other holiday trips, my parents never missed such moments. When I grow bigger enough to go by myself I always bought disposable cams, because I got a strong tendency to loose everything I got haha… Couldn’t allow myself to buy an expensive cam, I’d definitely loose it :P
But in the mid 90s my father brought back from his work one of these new digital cameras… I had heard of it but never thought I’d get one in my hands so soon. I think I remember it was a Sony with 300.000 pixels haha, technology went so fast since then…
But I got hooked by all the possibilities it offered, and the capacity to learn at no price, try and try again all possibilities and settings… Well you all know about digital photography, it has its assets!
So I became a digital photography freak, only swore by this… At the time I had a friend who swore she’d never go digital, and I spent some time with her doing B&W prints in her tiny home lab, with an oldschool broken enlarger she got from I don’t know where. We spent hours in there, I mean, it was fun, but I thought “that’s not for me, I love technology too much” this seemed prehistoric to me haha!
And on one day… A fellow musician of mine told me he was just like me until he discovered this weird brand called Lomography, and that since then he had turned back to analog… I couldn’t believe it… Well someone that digs digital coming back to analog photography??? Naaaah not possible… But when he showed me the pictures he took with this little thing he called Lomo LCA… Wooooooow! What the hell is this effect, which software he used, I couldn’t believe my eyes… I took the little information he could give me on the brand and went digging online…
Three weeks after I had bought my first LCA from Ebay, not the best option, I know, but it went right for me, and I’m still using it until I can buy a LCA+… Very soon hopefully, if there isn’t a new product released untill then, which I couldn’t resist to buy, as always haha!
It was something like 5 or 6 years ago, and since then I have progressively abandonned digital photography too, just like I swore I never would! But today I don’t see any reason why I’d come back again to digital, there’s no point in this! At all!!!
I am now the happy owner of a dozen of these treasure toys, among which the Spinner 360 which made me a kid again for 3 months now…
I also have a newly bought Horizon Perfekt, not a toy at all there, getting serious with it haha… By the way, I’ll upload my very first test film tonight or tomorrow!
And I also own other buddies such as the Smena 8M which I really like, a Diana Mini, a Holga, a Holga Wide Pinhole, a Supersampler, a Smena Symbol, a Smena 6, etc… and bunch of rarities such as the Agat 18 or the Olympus XA4, my boy jewels :). I love to experiment many things with all these:
Finally this community is so friendly, warm and creative, that you find reasons every day to get modern throughout Lomography, and YES, the future is definitely analogue for me! I even sent an application and had an interview to become the online manager for the French website… Wish me good luck hehe, but I know I’ll stay a Lomo junkie whatever happens!
Cheers mates! Hope you enjoyed this Lomo story and that it remembered souvenirs to some of you here ;)
94 комментариев
dictaphone
Nice article, fingers crossed for the manager thing!
trashpilotin
you would make a perfect online manager :)
-a-l-b-e-r-t-o-
love your shots
susielomovitz
gooooood luck!!! :D.
-a-l-b-e-r-t-o-
you have to win ;)
warning
Keep your fingers crossed!!!.
zenline
Il est minuit pile, j'ai tout lu, tout vu, tout aimé !! Une belle histoire qui mérite une suite dans les locaux de Lomo France :))
elvismartinezsmith
thank you everybody for the kind words :)
antibiotyx
very nice. good luck on your application. hope you make it! lomo on!
vicuna
Great story and shots! :)
gnarlyleech
you pictures are always great dude.
spoeker
great story :) I cross my fingers for the online manager job for you!!
squamy
Awesome story! Good luck with the job! :D
azzzy
love the article, love the pictures. good luck with the online manager job!
adi_totp
good luck :) :) Loveeeee your shots!!
jeabzz
super martin, t'ecris bien bordel :D
erinwoodgatesphotography
its great hearing that someone can go from completely digital to owning all those analogue cameras!
nicolas_noir
Great story! Felt the same as you about digital at first too! Now it's just such a yawn! I love your spinner shots! Good luck with the Horizon!
eatcpcks
Sounds really great ... a bit like my experience for the "i love technology too much to leave digital away!" finger crossed!
isabel_mebarak
Good!
mikahsupageek
go go martin go !
stouf
If it was my decision, I would make you manager. Bonne chance mon gars ! : )
remi-boiteux
Good luck dude !
adbigmilk
Go go go ! J'adore ta photo de mariage !! bravo pour l'article.
vgzalez
good luck, my friend!!
summyzhong
Good~~
kevinlj182
I liked it! Keep up the great Photos!
dannyedwards
really nice galleries!
azzzy
you will win!
metzgor
nice story dude!
maijomoll
very nice! good luck for the manager thing :)
lupo
YHEAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!! des énergies positives pour toi :D
eastmoe
yeahhh..lomo on.
mihauandpaolo
analogue rules XD
good luck!
warshock
i love your story. lomo on. :)
lawypop
musician + lomo = WINNER ! :)
benb
M_____ pour le job ! ^^
jblaze823
great story and great photos, good work my friend
coca
great shots, and good luck with the job!!
elede
you got it.
digyourself
neja
great photos and story telling! who are dread lock dudes?
naqi
nicely written and great shots!!
atreyuthechild
As everyone before me has said, well written and amazing photo skills! I'm in awe!
elvismartinezsmith
thank you all for the likes and kind words, I really appreciate!
cryve
good luck my friend!! :D
i_am_four-eyes
Awesome story! Yeah, Future is analogue! Will keep my fingers crossed for you : )
parktreeone
Nice article love your photos
natalieerachel
I freakin' love your photos, especially the one of that guy with the dreads, it's lovely!
gunship
good luck!!
vandal
i was trying to get money money to buy a cool digital camera also the prices where sky high and then i found out about lomography...then i bought myself a minolta x700 (really is a dream slr) now i want to sell it to buy a Canon eos3 :D...anyway now i really don't like digital pictures anymore...they don't have no soul :))
tallgrrlrocks
Oh I hope you get the position. You deserve it. I enjoyed your story very much too! :) All the best!
usefulidiot
Clairement, ce job est fait pour toi, ou bien c'est le contraire, mais peu importe, tu as du talent c'est evident. Bonne chance !
idigtulsa
Very enjoyable read, good luck with the competition. You snap some incredible pics my brother!
annko
mylatehope
Great article & images
jimmyhido
good job
lakandula
Love reading the story of your conversion. Fantastic shots!
zoezo
I really like the wedding shot! X
dyluzo
Well I don't know what to say everybody else said it all ready !
Way to go !
ghost
awesome story and amazing pictures! i wish i could have as many cameras as you! haha, still, amazing pictures you take.
ministryofvanilla
gebunnag
marshall4480
Great article man.
boss-i
Wow...Nice article!
helenga
Great article! Good luck for the position! Love your pictures!
danthefreakingman
cool bro! thats so awesome! lovely photos, looks like you have fun friends!
holydarkyfied
Lomography en français? La lomographie alors haha! Très bon article et aussi très belles photos, j'aime celle avec le spinner où l'on voit l'arche de triomphe :) (je dois pas l'écrire comme du monde --') En tous cas, je vais te suivre, histoire de voir tes prochains articles et tes photos :)
blancarleal
what a very nice shots!!!!! lomography come on!!!
snug
Great post and wondeful photos - good luck!
mayer
Fantastic!
Very beautiful shots!,... ^__^
Good Luck!
thufflife
Great Story and wonderful photos
coolsigg
Nice story! I too went from analogue (since young) to digital and now back somewhat to analogue! :)
rodrigoalmeida
Good luck!
rastablues
lindo articulo :D
nural
lol I sent in my application for the Turkey role too, I think lomo is more addictive than we think!!! and I`m glad you found your way to analogue!
thedriver
Brilliant pics, keep with the Lomography, Its got me and I'll never let it go!
vtayeh
Such great story telling! My story is not nearly as interesting but I sure wish you luck on the job app ;-D
escudero
fantastico article y images
anpank
Really nice! I would like to say THANK YOU for telling me this article,martin ;)
calvin_hardy
I like the spinner shoots too..and the wedding shoots :p
this story is very awesome :D Great Jobs :-D
thedrill
Keep up the good work.
ajyassi
weedos
Great story! Mine is similar. Maybe one day I'll get to write it :-). As always, great shots! Cheers!
elvismartinezsmith
thank you so much everybody for your amazing comments and likes, I WON!!!! :D
kaahti
renatamotteran
congratulations! nice nice story!
deepfried_goodness
Great article! I'm finding my personal free-time photos are now mainly analogue, while my professional work-related stuff stays in digital (clients don't want their product shots to be soft-focused or covered by a light leak no matter how much I tell them "that's the effect I wanted").
welland
So i just read this, did you get the job?!
elvismartinezsmith
@welland nope ;(
welland
oh well they didn't deserve you then! Hope you're doing well mate
elvismartinezsmith
@welland hahaha maybe ;) doing great! hope the same for you. Peace from Paris
hongmeow121
guinastrapazi
nice article! :))) very well done :)