Hmm... problem is - no control of supply, people would just get one off eBay. It's also a little too easy for hipsters to accept. You need to trick them into thinking that they've actually worked hard to achieve their artistic results.
What have keys and teeth got to do with loading film? WTF??!
nope il show u my tumblrs if u like
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im a real person. they didnt believe me on back henry street either, but i am honestly truely a real person, i dont know who scrivens is, they accused me of being someone called westy on there.
We need to get on the next big thing - how about we create a market in taking images through the bottom of old bottles instead of lenses. We get a glass recycling centre to supply the bottles in bulk cheap - then we get a Chinese manufacturer to do us body caps with the centres cut out in bulk - and we pay a bunch of gullbile morons piece work rates to glue the two together - then we sell them on a suitably hip site at "only" £20 each .. each one is different so every effect will be unique (but s***e)
You heard it hear first - one day Rodney we'll be millionaires
The Petzval lens raised about $1 million on kickstarter and costs about £500. Seems to be a hipster market out there for this type of crap. The Nikon 58 Noct I've never heard of being £400 though.
Their branding manager is probably a very clever man. Take an old Russian lens you cash buy f0r £20, make it a bit more s*** and sell for lots of profit. Not seeing why he needs his head looking at. His customers though...........
The More I see of people falling for claptrap like this, the more convinced I become that the next generation will be born without the facility of opposable thumbs...
How will they txt each other?
It'll be speech recognition. They'll talk to their phones, it'll turn it into txtspk and send it by text.
ps. If anyone develops an app that does this then I want some form of credit for the idea!
there is already an app for that btw i am not a hipster. im not even sure what one is.
But the one trend I have noticed especially in photography communities is the old people that do photography 40+ seem very scathing of anything new! like the 60+ togs! yes I use the short hand tog! seem to hate digital. I got banned from my local camera club for arguing for digital
The more I'm researching this company the more I think they're onto something. There's tons of those 16 year old girl hipster type 'photographers' out there. The type that helped fuel the lomography boom several years back. Well, these days it's getting harder to find cheap film and processing and a lot of these people wont put up with the non-instant-gratification of film. So there's a market for these 'painfully artistic a-level photography hipsters' out there in the digital world.
Use a 'normal' camera set up and actually learn to create an image? Nah, not hipster enough. That wont "impart a distinctly analogue and physical character onto digital imagery, and replace some of the tangible aesthetics that have been lost since digital acquisition and a reliance on post production has become commonplace"! Obviously! What they really mean is - I have absolutely zero photographic talent but rather than work on that I'd rather use magic snake-oil to do it for me. "Hey hipster! Simply buy my expensive s***ty lens and you too can be a photographic genius! Artistic results guaranteed with every press of the button!"
Effectively lenses like this are going to become the new cross-processing. I mean - look at this review/blog post about the lens: http://www.eoshd.com/content/9840/d...ptiks-flare-factory-58-lens-and-sample-photos
Tell me that doesn't remind you of this: http://www.lomography.com/photos/cameras/3314883-lomo-lc-a
Absolute s***e photography hiding behind some stupid gimmicks marketed at £XXX a pop.
I should be buying shares.
Class!We need to get on the next big thing - how about we create a market in taking images through the bottom of old bottles instead of lenses. We get a glass recycling centre to supply the bottles in bulk cheap - then we get a Chinese manufacturer to do us body caps with the centres cut out in bulk - and we pay a bunch of gullbile morons piece work rates to glue the two together - then we sell them on a suitably hip site at "only" £20 each .. each one is different so every effect will be unique (but s***e)
You heard it hear first - one day Rodney we'll be millionaires
Oh aye... you could pick up a used for less that £500 around a decade or so ago. Same with crappy anamorphic projector lenses.. they were dirt cheap back then as well.. you could get one for £10 as no one really had a use for them any more, but the DSLR movie scene has seen to that now. Looks like old M42 lenses will go the same way.
Agreed. It's far easier to make money off stupid people than clever ones:
Beats Headphones anyone? LOL
The 58 Noct has always been a rarer lens and commanded a high price, even a decade ago long before any 5D MKII.
I don't believe it's stupid, as people should be allowed to use what equipment they want how they want. There is a lot of photography snobbery around these days. :/
LOL @ The irony of that comment.
I don't believe it's stupid, as people should be allowed to use what equipment they want how they want. There is a lot of photography snobbery around these days. :/
Urgh...
I think that a number of personal traits affect my image making and image making is what it is. I think calling it photography is too limiting and that may seem silly to you but c'est la vie. I'd say that I was an artist before I picked up a camera but later I made my living in electronics, computing and manufacturing so the technical aspects appeal as well as the creative and emotive aspects. These lenses seem to combine technical and artistic interest and I applaud that.
When I look at a lot of the images posted here I think "so what?" Bird in flight? I couldn't care less... Yet another tight head shot? God give me strength... but this is a forum and you have to expect that and I do take a lot of "so what?" pictures myself. These lenses will not be of interest to everyone judging by the comments and to those people who just don't see the appeal I'd say that they should adopt a live and let live attitude and let 16 year old girls or anyone else who wants to go in a different direction just get on with it.
Urgh...
I think that a number of personal traits affect my image making and image making is what it is. I think calling it photography is too limiting and that may seem silly to you but c'est la vie. I'd say that I was an artist before I picked up a camera but later I made my living in electronics, computing and manufacturing so the technical aspects appeal as well as the creative and emotive aspects. These lenses seem to combine technical and artistic interest and I applaud that.
When I look at a lot of the images posted here I think "so what?" Bird in flight? I couldn't care less... Yet another tight head shot? God give me strength... but this is a forum and you have to expect that and I do take a lot of "so what?" pictures myself. These lenses will not be of interest to everyone judging by the comments and to those people who just don't see the appeal I'd say that they should adopt a live and let live attitude and let 16 year old girls or anyone else who wants to go in a different direction just get on with it.
I got banned from my local camera club for arguing for digital
I don't know what you were looking at on this forum and the broader world so far, but creative photography and other visual arts aren't just another headshot or bird in flight. Similarly mass produced overpriced hipster lens is not a form of art by itself, and it would take far more effort to set apart the images from the other hipster turd that relies on degradation of badly composed and lit images all in the same exact way. This is duplication by intent or ignorance.
I suggest you spend some time in the national portrait gallery (London), Wildlife photographer of the year exhibitions, to name just a couple. There are plenty more resources that would easily demonstrate what visual art is all about.
LOL.. not three grand for a used one it wasn't... Not even close. It wasn't even close to that new when they stopped making it. I recall it was £1200 approx. You could pick up a well used one for less than £500 10 years ago. They weren't even that rare. Now.. if you own one, even if it's knackered... you'll get a couple of grand for it. Mint... possibly anything up to £4K... All because stupid people like to jump on bandwagons.
Well I'm self indulgent, I'm not trendy though and I don't conform, like I don't care how the image turns out in camera, I just rely on photoshop...
But the one trend I have noticed especially in photography communities is the old people that do photography 40+ seem very scathing of anything new! like the 60+ togs!
These lenses give another choice. What's wrong with choice?