Lomography OKTOMAT Compact 35mm Camera with 8 Serial Lenses
Swing your head around and imagine your two eyes multiplying into 8 winking in a 2.5-second, serial succession. You, my friend, have tasted only the very beginning of Oktomatic pleasure. With one touch of the shutter button, its 8 tiny lenses fire in turn, creating a multi-frame mini photo vignette.
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Lomography OKTOMAT Compact 35mm Camera with 8 Serial Lenses Reviews
Yes, the lens just sucks. That would all be fine, except for the lens itself is complete garbage. I have this camera, and only 7 of the lenses ever work. but their products aren't that good.
Also, the exposures completely vary between lenses, so some frames are blown out, while others are underexposed. The images are dull and a little blurred. Yes I used it in bright sunlight. Seems like a fun idea, ultimately a waste of time and money.
Most of the time it is one lens thats broken, but mysteriously, sometimes it will fire while another one won't open. I gotta say, this company sure does great marketing.
This product will alienate people from the movement; it is that bad. Go ahead and buy it and you will see what I am talking about. This product is made at a level of a claw-machine toy. I totally respect what they have done for the Lomo movement and everything but this is not the way to do it. The teeth slip off the roll because the flimsy gears are not strong enough to even pull the roll. There is flat out no excuse for the Lomo company to charge $40 for this item.
Save your money and buy a genuine Lomo antique from an online auction site. I finally figured out after wasting a few frames a way to carefully advance the film without the gears letting go. First roll of film and it is already struggling mightily to work. I bought this camera brand new in a retail box.
I highly recommend it to anyone who is into experimentation and is willing to try different things. Other than being a little wary of its toy-like plastic and the lack of flash, I have no complaints about this camera. I've had results ranging from "What on earth is that burry mess repeated 8 times." to beautiful scenes I never expected to come out of this ugly red brick.
I think it is just badly made. I loaded the camera and it would not advance and I was careful. But I will just take tons of pictures with my old SLR camera and work with that. My 80's camera made out of plastic lasted a long time but this is cheap plastic. I was so excited for this camera but it broke right away (30 secs after opening it) and I have experience with cameras. This would have been so much fun.
Not too surprising, being that it is made of cheap plastic. Secondly, it broke on me during my second role of film. Invest in a lomo camera with a flash and durability. This product could be a really great medium of art, but it's too cheap. For one, it has no flash, which forces you to look out for sunny days to use it.
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