Lomo LC-A MINITAR-1 Art Lens 2.8/32 M

[terrycym]

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Lomography were at the recent NEC Photo show and they were showing this lens on a M-240

Looks kind of cute, no?

https://shop.lomography.com/en/minitar-1/?country=gb

I wonder if anybody here is using one of these lenses?

I did search btw and found nothing.

 

Thanks,

Terry

[Ko.Fe.]

I have seen plenty of images taken with this lens on digital M cameras in dedicated thread at another forum. It is true lomography lens and one of the smallest lenses ever made for M-mount. If you like saturated colors and lomography lenses rendering, this is the one.  

Edited April 21, 2017 by Ko.Fe.

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[terrycym]

I presume by lomography you mean super saturated colours and loads of vignetting?

 

I didn't realise there was a type of imaging called lomography, I thought it was a company name.

[Ko.Fe.]

Well......

Lomography as company is the business end of the camera cult and photography style which started in Austria by three students after one of them took students night party pictures with Lomo LC-A. It became so popular, those three started to go to Leningrad and buy these cameras for resale. The Lomo LC-A is the first lomography (for photography style) camera and lens you are asking about is exactly the same. 

Lomography originally is taking pictures with low cost film cameras and under specific rules. Yes, Lomography founders liked this lens for crazy colors it was giving on color film. But technically it is lens with vignetting, distortions and plenty of imperfections in the image, which was not something significant for lomographers. 

 

Here is BBC full and true documentary on what Lomography is. How it was started, how it developed as the cult and style and where it is now. It is also explained and heavily illustrated what for Minitar-1 lens is.

[matlep]

The lens is terrible. Unless you like unsharp pictures with poor colour and purple edges.

 

But it excels in being tiny.

Edited April 21, 2017 by matlep

[Ecar]

I have one - doesn't see much use, to be honest. Funky colours, vignetting, unsharp. Fun for casual snaps in a suitable environment (eg, at the beach).

[luigi bertolotti]

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Fun and cute indeed : but if one whishes to follow the "Lomography way"... frankly a Leica Digital M I think is out of scope and philosophy...

[gvaliquette]

Take an M10 - or any other M for that matter, film or digital

Mount a 35mm f2 Summicron

Set the aperture to f4.0

Set the focus to 2 meters

Shoot from the hip

Call the results "Lomography"

 

Guy   ;-)

[NB23]

I like that lens and what it represents.

But I'm a snob when it comes to spending time with a camera. I wish Leica would make one like this: A lens that SLIDES in a coat pocket with the camera body. Unlike the Summaron 28 which is unnecessarily big and square (yes, it could be smaller!)!

And black paint. Because it sticks to fingers and because I'm a camera snob.

And super Shallow, which is fine with me.

[Guest]

Elmar 50mm ?

[NB23]

Elmar 50mm ?

Elmar-c 40mm BP

[rramesh]

Wouldn't Lomo post-processing in Lightroom of photos taken using any mobile phone, achieve this look?

[MarkP]

Not to my taste.

[mikemgb]

I may have to find one of these lenses to try it on black and white film.

[Simon]

Wouldn't Lomo post-processing in Lightroom of photos taken using any mobile phone, achieve this look?

Kind of but seemingly against their "philosophy" according to the documentary posted above. Maybe on a film M this lens makes more sense as a novelty, but one you might also tire of pretty quickly!

 

Just for fun I took 30 seconds to imitate the look using the basic Photos app in iOS (shot on M10 with Noctilux). Not the same but I like it more than most of the blurry stuff they showed in that doco so who cares?

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[wattsy]

I prefer the "blurry stuff". It might be an affectation and a look that has had its day but it is less contrived than adding vignetting to a digital file.

[Simon]

I tend to agree, but for the record vignetting was not added in that previous pic. It is Noctilux natural vignetting enhanced with some contrast.

[Simon]

I enjoyed the documentary quite a lot Ko.Fe so thanks for posting. It was very interesting too for the most part, though I had to skip the karaoke bit (some repressed memories there perhaps)!

 

I thought they were going to say the whole doco was shot on a Lomo lens, but maybe that was just the state of broadcast technology at the time.

[frakaphoto]

one of my favourite lens on my M-A with the summaron28/ 5.4.

high quality build, genious 4 position distance if you went to shot fast, and

superbe black and white rendering.

the size is a dream and the price is super light. had a lot of difficultie to remove it. did not try yet on color film.

 

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