Last week, I bought a Lomo LC-W. It arrived Thursday, put two rolls of Fujicolor 200 through it on Saturday and sent it back to B&H on Sunday. Halfway through the first roll, it felt like the camera was jamming. It was actually the rewind lever flopping around and catching on the accessory finder I was using. Added to that, it would constantly over expose. If it wasn't a three hundred dollar camera, I would have delt with the foibles. I have owned way better cameras for a lot less money and decided this one wasn't worth the effort.
Here are a few. Lomo LC-W, Fujicolor 200
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Bottom line is, if you have to tape the rewind lever on a new camera, it's not a camera worth keeping.
madNbad wrote:
Bottom line is, if you have to tape the rewind lever on a new camera, it's not a camera worth keeping.
Haha, I have to tape the rewind lever on my 1959 Canon P, otherwise it pops open and jams against my shoe-mounted light meter. But it sounds like the Lomo is not the camera for you, and it's weird about the overexposure -- the reports on the new MC-A are similar and maybe this is a deliberate decision by Lomo since overexposed colour negative film seems to be a desired feature of the Lomo look.
You might want to look into the Fuji Work Record for an autofocus camera unless there are dealbreakers there for you. Mine has been rock-solid reliable for the past two years and the battery indicator still reads full despite my having put about 40 rolls of film through it during that time. The viewfinder is big and bright, autofocus and exposure are accurate, and it's totally weatherproof.
Just got back into film over the holiday break. A friend lent me a Pentax KX loaded with black and white ISO 400 film and I got hooked. Spent way too much money buying an EOS 1V and a collection of EF lenses, some of which I owned back when I shot Canon DSLRs. Here are my shots from the first rolls. For black and white I mainly shot Acros II 100 with some HP5+ 400 and Fomapan 400. For color I have only shot Ektar 100 so far, but want to try Gold 200 for outdoor portraits when the weather warms up. I'm loving this so far. My biggest challenge is I am frequently seeing scratches/dust when I scan the negatives. I have been trying to narrow down the variables to figure out why, it's a work in progress.
ketang wrote:
Just got back into film over the holiday break. A friend lent me a Pentax KX loaded with black and white ISO 400 film and I got hooked. Spent way too much money buying an EOS 1V and a collection of EF lenses, some of which I owned back when I shot Canon DSLRs. Here are my shots from the first rolls. For black and white I mainly shot Acros II 100 with some HP5+ 400 and Fomapan 400. For color I have only shot Ektar 100 so far, but want to try Gold 200 for outdoor portraits when the weather warms up. I'm loving this so far. My biggest challenge is I am frequently seeing scratches/dust when I scan the negatives. I have been trying to narrow down the variables to figure out why, it's a work in progress.
ketang wrote:
Just got back into film over the holiday break. A friend lent me a Pentax KX loaded with black and white ISO 400 film and I got hooked. Spent way too much money buying an EOS 1V and a collection of EF lenses, some of which I owned back when I shot Canon DSLRs. Here are my shots from the first rolls. For black and white I mainly shot Acros II 100 with some HP5+ 400 and Fomapan 400. For color I have only shot Ektar 100 so far, but want to try Gold 200 for outdoor portraits when the weather warms up. I'm loving this so far. My biggest challenge is I am frequently seeing scratches/dust when I scan the negatives. I have been trying to narrow down the variables to figure out why, it's a work in progress.
madNbad wrote:
Last week, I bought a Lomo LC-W. It arrived Thursday, put two rolls of Fujicolor 200 through it on Saturday and sent it back to B&H on Sunday. Halfway through the first roll, it felt like the camera was jamming. It was actually the rewind lever flopping around and catching on the accessory finder I was using. Added to that, it would constantly over expose. If it wasn't a three hundred dollar camera, I would have delt with the foibles. I have owned way better cameras for a lot less money and decided this one wasn't worth the effort.
Here are a few. Lomo LC-W, Fujicolor 200
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Yeah, for a new camera all that is unacceptable. Mine works fine but it seems that Lomo lately (!) is going the Leica route with their QC checks.
Good thing you bought it from a place with a good return policy.
