Tell me about your Lomo.

Which Lomo? There were several cameras that came out of the former

Soviet republic with this name.<br>If you mean the little black one

about the size of a cigarette pack, then I can tell you it's a pile of

crap. I bought one for my daughter, for her birthday, about 10 years

ago.<br>It worked for 6 months, and then the shutter refused to open.

It was returned to the retailer, under guarantee, and was kept for

about 4 weeks being 'repaired', although when it was eventually

returned it was obviously a different camera.<br>This one lasted a few

more months, when the shutter stuck again. This time I repaired it

myself, since it was now out of warranty. The problem was grease

migrating onto the shutter/diaphragm leaves, and it took only about 5

minutes to clean them. Dismantling the camera to get at them had taken

the best part of an hour though.<br>This repair lasted less than a

year, when the shuttter stuck again. By this time my daughter had

completely lost faith in it, and I bought her a secondhand Chinon SLR

to replace it.<br>The Chinon is still working just fine, and the

little Lomo is still gathering dust. For the short time that the Lomo

worked properly, it gave good results.

I just bought a Lomo Automatik like yours, and I´m experiencing the

same kind of annoing trouble with the shutter, as you did. So I was

quite amazed when I read that you actually succeded in rapairing the

damn thing.....! Therefore I´m very interested in finding out, how

you did it.....So maybe, if you feel up to it, or have a spare

minute, you could mail me, with a brief discribtion of your course of

action...?

Kind Regards Niels Damsgaard

Fuck ya'll, U motha's all stink.....! Lomo can kiss my ass, for all I

care, if U don't stop writing about those friggin skumsuckin cameras,

I'm gonna have to kick you lilly asses into the middle of next week!!!

By the way - FUUUUUUUUUCKKKK UUUUUUUUUUUUUUU 4 good (_*_)

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Kind regards Henri

Yo Henri, I seriously don't like your attitude m'bout the fine LOMO

Automatik camera. This camera s'equipped with some of the scummiest

electronics and lenses, ever witnessed by mankind. The pure quality

of the plastic covering, end the mere beauty of this timeless piece,

makes it a "modern classic". It's memorabilia, a sign of those great

times lost in history, when men could shape such amazing macanics,

with their bare asses. With absolutely no thought, what so ever,

these brute men, working in the steelplants of the Russian highlands,

crafted this exclusive piece of hardware out of scrapmetal and

polyetanylamon, witch they extracted from goatdroppings boiled in

milk and cider. So don't give us "the high hat" just 'cause you're

not aware of how stuff went down in history...!!!

thanx Franco

Guys,

the LOMO LC-A is capable of pro results. Check out this beautifully designed site:

http://www.m-lau.de/

It's pointless tu argue with a bunch of gear-headed colleagues... Photography is indeed a Way of the Heart.

Ray

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