Yesterday Lomo also announced new “experimental lenses” for the MFT system. You can already preorder the Lens kit at http://shop.lomography.com/ (worldwide shipment). A full gallery of images taken with this lenses can be seen here: http://shop.lomography.com/en/lomography-experimental-lens-kit
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Would somebody explain me please what the hell does it supposed to mean? Optical multiple exposure?
It means that you don’t wind the sensor between exposures. 🙂
from the website: “Mechanical Shutter: The lenses in this kit have a built-in mechanical N/B shutter, which allows you to take long and multiple exposures.”
According to their website the lens has it’s own shutter. You open your camera’s shutter (bulbtimer) and open het shutter of the lens. Than you close the lenses shutter point your camera at an other subject, open the lenses shutter again, expose, close the lenses shutter, and kerp repeating this until you’re done. Then you close the camera’s shutter too. Your true multi-exposure picture is ready.
Sounds to me like you could do the same using a lenscap, but then I would get a black image wouldn’t I? Guess I am missing something myself.
Could somebody claify?
Yes, you can do the same with a lenscap: exposure time 30 seconds – 10 seconds exposure on subject no 1 – take 10 seconds to place lenscap and recompose – 10 seconds exposure on subject no 2.
Putting the lens cap on and off to get a similar effect would work just fine, but because you can’t move the cap all that quickly you’d be likely to get some oddball blurring as well as your fingers in the shot. The manual shutter in these lenses is, presumably, somewhat faster than that, so would work much better in moderate to bright light.
They also have the filter slot, which is kind of fun.
Regardless, $90 for three mildly wacky lenses–why not. I’m not going to buy them because that’s not my thing, but pairing these with a $100 G1 or EP-1 off of eBay seems like a perfect fit for the Lomo crowd.
They’re in the same category as the m43 pinhole Kickstarter lens I bought a while back for a few bucks–not “useful”, but fun.
I’d be fun if Lomo managed to develop a version of one of their multi-exposure cameras as a lens for m43. It’s a little pointless on a digital camera where you can just do a high-fps burst or photoshop a multiple identical exposure, but the optical garbage that would no doubt result from the crummy plastic lenses would be the charm of it.
I just tried a “true” double exposure with the body cap lens, using it’s “mechanical shutter” while the camera was set to a 10 sec. exposure. Aimed the camera at a wall, pressed the shutter, closed the lens cap walked to another part of the garden and opened and closed the “mechanical shutter” of the BCL. (just a fast right to left and back right slide).
I won’t try this on a bright summer day, but on an autumn evening it works. Don’t think this is my kind of photography though.
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i can read f/8 aperture on lens pics.
is it like lenscap?
well lenscap has better optics and is flat, but lomophiles like grungy effects, which i suspect comes in all of these?
I know my e-p2 can multi expose and lets you frame on the LCD and works quite well. But lomo is all about selling the concept
Don’t forget about the 25mm f/1.4 CCTV lens, it’s a lot of fun and only $30 with adapter. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/25mm-F1-4-CCTV-TV-Movie-lens-Mount-to-EP1-EP2-GF1-GF2-/160601126393?pt=AU_Lenses&hash=item256492b5f9&_uhb=1
Even the newer panasonics like the GC7 let you do multi-exposure so I don’t see the attraction other than having a hip and cool Lomo product stuck on front of your camera. I whish it had been something different, maybe even an actual camera, that would’ve been way more awesome that a set of plastic lenses. I like the packaging though.
I wonder if any of you sees the possibilities of using the Liveview Bulb with these devices? Meaning that you can actually see what happens, and so modify the result at will WHILE THE SHUTTER IS OPEN.
I gather there is no way on the OM-D to use Livetime for multiple exposures – that is to interrupt it to change position, while Lomography allows it manually.
Couple it with some gels and you have indeed very surreal effects. Don’t forget that Lomo plays on the tactile side of our brain, so sharpness doesn’t matter.
The liveblub mode come to my mind right away as well. I guess that might trigger Lomo to release such a product.
A few dishonest marketing photos on that webpage. A lot of those pics are double-exposures. For someone who wouldn’t know any better, they might think the lens can produce that effect, and not all (if not most) m43 cameras don’t have a multiple exposure feature.
In fact you can see the effect of merging two images on the E-M5 I believe but that happens after the shots.
Lomo allow to see how things take shape *as the camera exposes*…
Why all this talk and those crappy pics? I have checked your Flickr, get a compact and a porn subscription. Stop pretending you are actually taking pics. You can’t.
You can. The lens has it’s own mechanical manual shutter. Which means you can create a double (or more) exposure on any camera with a simple bulb mode.
I usually do it on iPhone, there are a lot of apps (hipstamatic is my fav).
For a second I thought it could be a good option for someone who can’t afford a more expensive wide angle (for example for small prints), but I think one would be better off with a wide-angle converter for a kit lens.