I'm making a video about this camera too (in New York)😅 I love lomomatic 110! Sometimes the results can be a bit wasteful, while at other times they can be truly unique! Thank you for this video!! 🎞🎞 🎞
Inexperience makes for extremely limited reviews. One or two rolls of film is not enough to make claims about the camera because with all new formats and camera types, it takes time to learn the new cameras capabilities. The 24 shots cartridge has some big advantages vs half-frame. With half frame once the film is loaded that is your only choice for 72 frames. Doesn't matter if you need a faster or slower film, or want to switch to another film type. 72 is a lot of photographs. The cartridge on the other hand means that you can hot swap between cartridges. You lose one frame when you do it, but you can swap 100 ISO to 400. You can swap between Turquoise, Purple, '92, Orca, etc., at will. love that. I remember 1972 and the introduction of 110. It was not to make it easier than 135. That already existed with 126 cartridges introduced in the 1960's. It was to reduce the size of instamatics to a pocketable size. 126 Instamatics had the same easy loading, but it made larger square shaped photographs. Customers preferred the 4:3 ratio of 110, and the cameras were nice and small. It was a big hit, but not because it was easier than 35mm film. Something people noticed early on, was that the form factor of the cameras made it much easier to get the horizon level in the photos. Another 110- advantage. Another advantage is that when developing your own film (highly recommended as it brings costs way down) the reels can be stacked in the developing can, and it is possible to develop several rolls at once. Zone focussing is one of the easiest manual focus methods. When I was young, in the 1950's and 60's, most cheap cameras zone focussed. We got used to it, and it is easy to guess distance. You quickly get good at it. It is not a real problem. War and hunger are real problems. Zone focussing is a doddle. But the giant advantage is simply how pocketable those cameras are. They have rounded edges, and slip in and out of all but the smallest pockets. That makes this camera easy to carry. Your phone can do more, but the fun cannot provide the fun factor. The excitement of looking at freshly developed photographs, including the surprises because you forgot about some of them. And nothing beats having a photo album. People love looking through photo albums. The biggest criticism is the strange lack of a tripod mount. A dumb decision by Lomography. However, you can use a rubber band to hold it on a tripod. You can rest it on a surface. And the slow low light nature of film opens lots of great light painting opportunities, so the bulb mode is a great creative tool despite the lack of tripod mount. I mount it by carrying rubber bands with me. The night and day controls the aperture (2.8 or 5.6). There are better 110 cameras out there. I love the Minolta SLR Zoom for the manual control it gives me. I also have the Pentax 110 Auto. It has fabulous tiny interchangeable lenses, and it is most people's favorite but it is to automatic for me. But old cameras often come with problems of age, and these brand new Lomomatic 110's are a brilliant little camera to have in 2025. I liked your photographs. You should try shooting 110 some more. Orca is great to try.
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I'm making a video about this camera too (in New York)😅 I love lomomatic 110! Sometimes the results can be a bit wasteful, while at other times they can be truly unique! Thank you for this video!! 🎞🎞 🎞
What a nifty little camera, I really like it's unique design ngl
Inexperience makes for extremely limited reviews. One or two rolls of film is not enough to make claims about the camera because with all new formats and camera types, it takes time to learn the new cameras capabilities.
The 24 shots cartridge has some big advantages vs half-frame. With half frame once the film is loaded that is your only choice for 72 frames. Doesn't matter if you need a faster or slower film, or want to switch to another film type. 72 is a lot of photographs. The cartridge on the other hand means that you can hot swap between cartridges. You lose one frame when you do it, but you can swap 100 ISO to 400. You can swap between Turquoise, Purple, '92, Orca, etc., at will. love that.
I remember 1972 and the introduction of 110. It was not to make it easier than 135. That already existed with 126 cartridges introduced in the 1960's. It was to reduce the size of instamatics to a pocketable size. 126 Instamatics had the same easy loading, but it made larger square shaped photographs. Customers preferred the 4:3 ratio of 110, and the cameras were nice and small. It was a big hit, but not because it was easier than 35mm film.
Something people noticed early on, was that the form factor of the cameras made it much easier to get the horizon level in the photos. Another 110- advantage.
Another advantage is that when developing your own film (highly recommended as it brings costs way down) the reels can be stacked in the developing can, and it is possible to develop several rolls at once.
Zone focussing is one of the easiest manual focus methods. When I was young, in the 1950's and 60's, most cheap cameras zone focussed. We got used to it, and it is easy to guess distance. You quickly get good at it. It is not a real problem. War and hunger are real problems. Zone focussing is a doddle.
But the giant advantage is simply how pocketable those cameras are. They have rounded edges, and slip in and out of all but the smallest pockets. That makes this camera easy to carry. Your phone can do more, but the fun cannot provide the fun factor. The excitement of looking at freshly developed photographs, including the surprises because you forgot about some of them. And nothing beats having a photo album. People love looking through photo albums.
The biggest criticism is the strange lack of a tripod mount. A dumb decision by Lomography. However, you can use a rubber band to hold it on a tripod. You can rest it on a surface. And the slow low light nature of film opens lots of great light painting opportunities, so the bulb mode is a great creative tool despite the lack of tripod mount. I mount it by carrying rubber bands with me.
The night and day controls the aperture (2.8 or 5.6).
There are better 110 cameras out there. I love the Minolta SLR Zoom for the manual control it gives me. I also have the Pentax 110 Auto. It has fabulous tiny interchangeable lenses, and it is most people's favorite but it is to automatic for me. But old cameras often come with problems of age, and these brand new Lomomatic 110's are a brilliant little camera to have in 2025.
I liked your photographs. You should try shooting 110 some more. Orca is great to try.
Anyone remember the spy kids cameras from happy meals?
Yes. Spy cameras were great for kids.