Hasta La Gadget!

For photography enthusiasts, Lomo is a company you’ve probably heard of. For those unfamiliar, the company has been responsible these days for creating plastic cameras that produce lo-fi photos that sport interesting effects and colors, and are great for novelty photos and photos that are a bit more interesting to look at. Well it looks like while other camera companies are heading towards the future and producing more hi-tech camera gear, Lomo will be taking a step back, a step back to 1840, a good 170-odd years, and start producing the Petzval lens wh ich was invented in Russia more than a century ago.

One of the highlights of the camera would be its design, which as you can see in the image above, certainly does not conform to today’s designs. It will also be made from brass and focusing with the lens will require you to turn a knob of the side as opposed to a ring on the barrel. In fact the whole affair is pretty old school and seems somewhat troublesome, where photographers are required to swap between rings to change the aperture. The lenses will play nice with Canon and Nikon bodies and if you’d like to learn more, or maybe place your pre-order, hit up its Kickstarter campaign for the details!

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There was some uproar about the possibility of using unarmed drones over US soil to locate that cop turned killer fugitive, but maybe that’s because drones have a bad rap because of all of the bombs they’ve been known to drop. Now, engineers at FliteTest are trying to make a kinder, gentler drone, the kind that captures artsy images.

The Lomo-Copter is a remote-controlled tricopter, outfitted with a medium-format Diana F+ Lomography camera with an instant back and remote-triggering mechanism. This brings fuzzy, light-leaky, and vignette stylized imagery to secret spy footage.

The Lomo-Copter also has another camera mounted to the Lomo-cam’s viewfinder, which transmits real-time footage to the operator’s stylish goggles for first-person-view operation of the drone, so they can snap pictures remotely with the old-school analog camera. Here’s a comparison of the FPV goggles and a Lomo print:

So if you’re worried about drones flying over your neighborhood, don’t be because some of them are actually pretty nice, and they might just Instagram you some photos of your garden gnomes.