Does this bug anyone?
I know this has been happening for a while now. The CMY Special Edition Holga was featured in style.com's holiday gift guide in December 2008, and with urban outfitters peddling their whole line of lomography camera's and accessories, you know mass amounts of hip little thing are constantly walking out of the store with a lomo in tow. This confuses me because, as a photography enthusiast, I know that 120 format film isn't the easiest to come about or have developed in most places. The appeal to me is the different and unpredictable quality of image, worth the extra developing expense but I feel the camera itself being so cheap (and being made so fashionable) may be misleading.
I understand these are "toy cameras" but there doesn't seem much point if they can't even be used for fun. I know that there are 35mm lomo camera's out there, holgas included, but for the most part it seems the cameras are being bought in their original 120mm form.
Once bought are they being recognised as unusable without a large amount of effort and simply becoming closet/shelf clutter? Or are people that buy them on a whim really getting out there to have their images developed?
I'm not sure if the developing of 120 format film is only such a bother in my part of the world.
i totally agree with your post i am a photographer my self and have seen way to many people using these as a fashion statement. I can develop that type of film at my uni were as some people may just leave the roll of film in the bottom of the draw .. x
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