TexasGirl Photography

Today I’m here to talk about another Lomo lovely: the LomoApparat! I valiantly resisted their seductive marketing campaign for many months, and in the end succumbed when I found one “open box” on eBay. I had very low expectations, since it is a simple camera with almost no controls to it, but I was still keen to try it. Finding a simple point-and-shoot camera that gives good results is my White Whale quest.

Rather than doing any kind of in depth review of the Apparat, since I’m certain there are many, many of them available, I’m going to cut right to the chase and say that the camera has been a very pleasant surprise. So far I’ve put two rolls of film through it (with others waiting to be developed) and both came out great! I’ve mostly used it outside, but not always in the brightest sunniest conditions.

For the first outing, I wandered around the square in Georgetown, TX. It’s unusual for me to make many vertical photos, but for some reason those are the ones that caught my eye enough to share with you today.

The lens is very wide, and yes there’s some distortion as a result, but I love it!

I haven’t played around much with the lens attachments, but I have experimented some with double exposures. Lately I have spoiled myself having that as an option on my growing collection of Lomo cameras; I miss the feature on the ones that don’t have it!

The middle photo below uses the kaleidoscope lens attachment, which might be more interesting with color film but still made a cool effect here.

Next, I took the Apparat down to East Austin loaded with color film: Kodak Ultramax.

I had the film developed at a lab, and I will admit that I’m not the best when it comes to color scanning. Personally I don’t always want to balance it out or correct it. Maybe it’s just because my eye becomes instantly attached to the way that a photo looks the moment I see it. So the point here is that maybe these aren’t perfect but I’m still very happy with them.

The final two examples I’m offering today were made by the San Gabriel river at Garey Park in Georgetown, when I was seeking out wildflowers to polish off the roll. Again me with the happiness!

Here ends my post bestowing love on a piece of gear I had low expectations for but ended up very happy to have purchased. Do you have a LomoApparat? How has it treated you?

Thanks for reading!