Lomo Camera Effect
I saw my first Lomo camera in a GUM store in Warsaw, shortly after the Berlin Wall had come down in 1990. It was, in fact, the only camera on sale in that huge store, and it piqued my interest. Lomo cameras were made in the Lomo factory in St. Petersburg (along with a lot of other specialized optics—for telescopes, cine cameras, microscopes, and more). Its 35 mm Lomo LC-A film camera was adopted by a group of enthusiast photographers who used to take pictures almost randomly—from all manner of angles, locations, and subjects. Lomography, as it is called, often spawned huge exhibitions of images, mass-printed and displayed almost like wallpaper. The Lomography movement started in Vienna in the 90s and continues today, although not quite with the mass appeal of the last century. Elements' Lomo Camera Effect produces a soft, heavily vignetted effect similar to that produced by the LC-A and the Diana toy camera, and many more unsophisticated...