Lomography Actionsampler camera

Give digital the finger 4x over with this grown-up toy camera.

Lomography cameras hark back to a golden age of photography where each shot was unique and photos, like people, had scars and stories.

I'm not going to diss digital like some cave-dwelling cretin and deny the positive effect it has had in democratising art and photography, but it seems the more perfect photos become with mega amounts of megapixels and editing software, the less they seem to be a real, tangible thing.

Enter Lomography. The chunky plastic cameras have an Instamatic vibe and share similar connotations of joy and spontaneity. You choose carefully, click and await the magic of the dark room.

HUCK tried out the Actionsampler, a rad little camera that takes 35mm pictures with four sequential panels. The frames are taken 0.22 seconds apart so you can capture motion. It's simple technology with no focusing, fixed aperture and no shutter speed which gives a lo-fi, dreamy quality to the images.

The Actionsampler is available for £28.14 from the Lomography online shop.

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