Hipsters Rejoice! A Build-It-Yourself Plastic Camera

Hipsters Rejoice! A Build-It-Yourself Plastic Camera

There's no denying the growing popularity of Lomo photography in recent years - especially if you've ever visited an Urban Outfitters. The motto for Lomography is, "Don’t Think, Just Shoot," - which is kind of ironic considering their newest offering requires quite a bit of thinking. The Konstruktor is a $35 build-it-yourself camera that should give hipsters a better understanding as to how their 'antique Instagram machine' actually works.

The Konstruktor takes one to two hours to assemble - depending on how many of the included stickers you add to your camera.

Lomographic cameras are inherently designed to produced images with "oversaturated colors, extreme optical distortions, rainbow-colored subjects, off-kilter exposure, blurring and alternative film processing, all things usually considered bad in photography."


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Via Lomography / Gizmodo / Wikipedia

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Residing in New York City, Chris is an internationally published photographer whose work has appeared in Vogue, People, MSNBC, ABC, Ocean Drive, GQ and others. He is an instructor of Photography and Imaging at Pratt Institute and the New York Film Academy.

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I can also see this as a good learning tool for the beging photographer, help understand the in's and out's of a camera. I want one!

an f/10 lens isn't going to help anyone! D:

Learning to work within restricted parameters is a great way to learn, even, gasp, f/10.

Though I'm a digital photographer myself, I welcome anything that will help keep film alive. Despite the bad rep of lomography cameras, they're probably the strongest force film has atm.

man those are some hairy arms