Leeds Lomo Meet Up - My photos...

Last week I finally treated myself to something I've been waiting to get for years! An LC-A!!!!!

Unlike the one that I used in Manchester which was the Lomography LC-A+, I ordered the refurbished LC-A as it was a fair bit cheaper which also meant that I could get the Lomokino too, hurray!!

Side note - the majority of this was bought with Lomography piggie points, if you have a lomo/film camera and you enjoy writing, I highly recommend writing some articles and getting those piggies, it takes a while, I had to write about 20 articles to save enough, but it's possible and fun at the same time.

I decided that the Leeds Lomography Xmas Meet Up was the perfect place to try my newest camera and also to try and take more photos of people... it was a mixed result as I was a bit too experimental with the aperture but overall I love the results with this camera already!

{I completely forgot to ask what this camera actually was, its beautiful though!}

 Happy weekend!!

Camera: Refurbished LC-A
Film:Kodak ISO 200 
Location: Leeds

Leeds through their eyes: Darren aka Pancho Ballard

Saturday was the Lomography Leeds Xmas Meet Up and I was very excited to go and catch up with a few people that I met in Manchester and also to meet new people. I love meeting people!  Especially people who don't think that I'm crazy for having as many cameras as I do, haha. Although I haven't had any of my films developed yet (gah!), some people already have and I'm excited to be sharing their photos on here. First up is Darren, aka Pancho Ballard

{how amazing is that camera?!}

Aren't they great? I absolutely love Darren's photos of people, he captures the moment so well and of course I love his photos of Leeds as well. I think sometimes I forget that there is so much to take photos of in Leeds, so it was interesting watching what people were taking photos of on Saturday.

You can see Darren's album of photos on Lomography here

Photographer: Darren aka Pancho Ballard
Camera: Minolta XG-M
Film: Ilford HP5 (developed by Darren!)

These photos are used with Darren's permission so please do not reuse them.

More Manchester LCA photos...

The more I look at these photos, the sadder I get that the LC-A I used was just a loaner camera and that I had to give it back...I wasn't sure what I was expecting from this camera but when I first saw the photos I was a little underwhelmed by them: it's easy to get caught up in the hype of something and I wonder if perhaps I was expecting a little too much from it.

However looking at the photos again, more and more details start to pop out that I wouldn't expect to see from my other Lomography cameras and I'm still so impressed by the colours, the contrast balance and delicacy it has with its multiple exposures.

The LC-A has an understated excellence to it and I can imagine with more use I would learn more about its individual charms and I can start to see why people love this camera so much. This camera is definitely going on my christmas list! (and I'm pretty sure it will be worth the rather hefty price tag too).

You can see the entire film of photos here.

Location: Manchester, England

Camera: LC-A (Loaned to me by Lomography for the afternoon)

Film: Cross processed Lomography Xpro Chrome ISO 100