You guys all need to relax a little. You really shouldn't blindly believe something. You can't say "i love hipsters" or "i hate hipsters" because you haven't met all of them. As for the camera, I'm a n00b but still really enjoy shooting with my Holga. No nostalgia, I just like the challenge.
Fuck hipsters. Liking a style of art because it's not popular is just as bad as liking a style of art because it is popular. Like art because YOU like it, not for its popularity level.
I'm not even a photographer but I thought this video was really interesting. I agree that the lashing out on "hipsters" was maybe a little unnecessary... But your username IS Blunty after all. Anyway, really interesting and I'm definitely a new fan!
"Gee, I sure am glad I bought this super high-tech camera that has been in development for years which takes amazing photographs and cost a fortune... only to follow it up with the purchase of a shitty piece of plastic which completely degrades and ruins precisely what the camera was made for!"
@BananaMammoth It's not like you would use it as a primary lens, or for everyday work. It's a unique lens you use for certain situations. You can buy a 12mm wide angle lens, a great lens, but you're probably not going to use it for sports photography are you? Every piece of equipment has a different application.
Wow, dude, a VERY biased review much. I am NOT hipster, yet own one of these camera's, and I have to admit that they are really cool...especially with instant back.
Although i liked the review, as it was thorough, Your view on the youth using it pays no credit to your insight into the pro's and cons of this lens. At least they're vesting their time in an interest.
I could care weather or not it makes me look like a hipster or not really, my broke ass is just trying to work with a budget. The good ones that you put up do instantly transmit what's unique about themselves. I guess I could be willing to drop that many shots with a lower yield of decent photos for those kinds of results.
Good review. I've been looking around youtube for a little while now and am considering getting some of these different plastic lenses for my NEX. To be honest I think the nostalgia factor is more in the composition of the photos themselves rather than what it's supposed to emulate. Many cinematographers use this kind of soft focus and lighting when shooting scenes in movies pertaining to deceased loved ones and old memories, least that's what I take away from it.
Who cares if someone is a "hipster"? What the hell have they done to you for you to trash talk them so much? Seriously, Lomography is a style of photography, and isn't just reserved for "hipsters". Not all photos have to be taken perfectly with digital cameras. Hating on people isn't going to solve any problems. There's no reason to waste time on stupid shit like that.
@jemXero Hipsters are a cancer whose vapid posing has contributed absolutely nothing of worth to culture, and "lomography" isn't a 'style', it's a marketing gimmick to sell cheap plastic shit at high prices to morons who're too young for genuine nostalgia for the equipment it's designed to poorly emulate so they can think they're "artistic".
@Blunty3000 I see what you're getting at. I'm not particularly fond of all these talentless hipsters myself, really. I'm an artist, and I enjoy combining SKILL with CONCEPT. I don't really like abstract art or modern art because of its cheap, gimmicky ridiculousness. However, I will say that if you use this "cheap piece of plastic" properly, you can definitely get a very nice "dreamy" effect. I enjoy the aesthetic of it, but that's not to say I don't like the sterility of regular photography...
You seem incredibly pissed off about... something?
I guess you get what your personality deserves in the end; you pay $60+ for something you yourself know is worth very little just so you can review it and complain about... pretty much everything you discuss.
Hipster photography annoys me, as much as I like the thought of people expressing themselves through imaging media, it just seems pointless, no 'stunning' images seem to come out of it, Ive never seen a hipster photo and though 'wish I could take images like that' because to put it simply, my 6 year old brother could take the same photos, and theyd probably see them as even more expressional. :L
Ill gladly keep shooting normal photos with my normal lenses for the time being :L
I'm fine with hipsters, actually, some relative and the majority of their friends are hipsters. Where I cross the line is at standard hipster photography. Film grain is fine, blooming is fine, soft focus is fine, and so many other things are fine. doing them all in the same picture on purpose knowing what the outcome is gonna be is just annoying. Thankfully all the hipster people I know/are related to have only a passing interest in doing photography and none of them have this kind of taste. YAY
This lens is a waste of money. Basically, all it does is make images look softer (a feature most DSLRs have). HUGE waste of money. If you want the Diana effect, just buy some lomography or expired film and put it in a toy camera.
I really dont like hipsters especially when they waste rare films, ie cross processing it or red scaling it but more importantly i hate the Lomography "society" who brainwash hipster to buy there crazily priced cameras, i bought a Minolta x-700 with 3 lenses, cokin filter set and underwater housing for £50 the same price as a diana mini!! Though i dislike them some of there images are really good and very interesting, and i geuss they are helping to keep film photography alive.
this guy is fucking retarded. There is no need to completely BASH diana cameras AND hipster photography. you are the one who went and bought the shitty imitation lens for just under the price of the actual fucking camera, there is no point! if you want the effects of a diana just but a fucking diana! dumbas!!
Looks like a really fun lens to use, I just got the holga lens for DSLR for xmas, and I came across this lens on photojojo the other day, can't wait to get one now :)
Decent review, I do think its silly to think of this lens, and indeed the lomo cameras as more than something to have fun with but sometimes an interesting picture or two can be taken with them :)
I'm no hipster, but I like some of the feel and look of film. I've done some digital lomography (that is, touching my pics to look older) and they produce MASSIVELY better pictures than this lens does...I'd rather just get the actual Diana. O_o
Obviously people did not watch this review from start to finish. I'm glad I did because you turned me against buying it and then back to buying it... and then pretty much let me make my own decision. In all honesty, I know too many people you seem to refer to as "Hipster Photographers" and they all shoot in auto mode and I want to shoot them.
I reckon I WILL be buying this lens after seeing this video (maybe for a slightly cheaper price on ebay) not for the quality, merely for the fun :)
I'm sure all of these great photo's (on the lomography website) are all down to sheer luck - stop being a cock ... the problem with all your photo's that you took is that they lack imagination ... just like most hipsters! The diana lens is all about having fun - pull your head out of you ass - play - you may just capture what the diana does best - LIFE!!!!!
haha - Thanks Blunty. Love the anti-hipster vehemence, and I'm glad you enjoyed the experience. You don't need to be a hipster to appreciate lo-fi photography, and although I agree the hipster demand has made the Diana overpriced, I know lots of excellent artists who speak well of it.
Thank you for saying that hipsters have no talent. THANK YOU! When I sold the majority of my 35mm gear to fund some DSLR stuff, guess who bought all my gear? ....yea... you guessed it.
You can't just take a picture of a fire hydrant, put a white frame on it and watermark in photoshop, toss it up on Flickr and call yourself a photographer.
I want a drinking buddy like this guy... we'd get along really well hahaha
I like using old film SLR's cause I was born in the digital era and realized that the effortless auto crap sucks and digital SLR's are a little to expensive to just casually carry around in your bag. I am actually kind of looking forward to using the diana but I am worried about not having any idea how my photo is going to look before I take it and I think your opinion's were useful as offensive as the may have been but thanks for making this video.
Why not just get a 35mm SLR? You can get a EOS Rebel for like $20 these days. BTW, we are the 99%! We use MacBook's all day at starbucks! We're fashionable! But I would still never buy this lens.
It takes photos like a cheap cell phone, but nothing like any of the decent film camera from the 60's, 70's or 80's. Even instamatics took better outdoor pictures than that. If they want real control over their exposure, why not buy a film camera? There are thousands of them for sale for the cost of a roll of good film.
Us Lomographers' have no talent, and can't take a picture for our lives? that's an opinion. Because us "hipsters" like beautiful, weird and wacky photography doesn't mean we cant take, what you call decent pictures. You aren't very nice to bash our "subculture" camera because you don't like its results. because your on the boat where you over think every picture you take, then still are not satisfied so you still feel the need to further alter it more in a computer. And or photography sucks...
Punchy. You are my hero. seriously. I live in sydney and would love to do a photography project with you. If not, we could just complain about those pretentious, irritating hipsters.
I don't see why people say you are completely bashing the product, you pointed out your opinion and the build quality of the lens; you even go on to mention how the unpredictability is refreshing. People get far too upset when people have something realistic and not fluffy and catering to them that they have come to expect. I enjoyed the review.
@TheZayneDerden People who choose to change themselves to fit into a "subculture" as elitist and pretentious as "hipsters" tend to only hear criticisms and filter out anything that doesn't let them pretend to be a "victim" and feel all special and exclusive. Basic psychology, entirely predictable and common. Hipsters are posers, nothing they have, do or say is authentic. It's all about image and how they try to be perceived. Most pathetically needy "subculture" to arise EVER.
@Blunty3000 everything you just said makes you sound like a nazi. Calm down. why the fuck do you care how people want to act? is it really affecting your life that much
If you knew anything about lomography, you would know that the point of it was to use the crappiest plastic to take oversaturated pictures and double exposures.
he doesnt take into account that "Lomographers" PAY for film roll, so technically the CHEAP man is you Blunty. (who probably moved into the digital wolrd for its affordable expendables)
how to get a lo-fi looking picture. get a smart phone or a computer, use a photo-editing program (theres even websites you can do this with out paying) find a lo-fi image filter apply. done.
I like the Lomographic look as well, it looks nice but it's, yes, cheap. But does everything have to be so expensive? The Canon EF lenses and Sigma lenses are so expensive, and the quality is in budget category even grabbier than with this Diana lens because of the price you are paying of them. I have bought some nice Diana lens for some 30-40 euros, and I'm satisfied about the quality what I get with that money. I have owned expensive 2500 euros costing Sigma TELE lenses, and they are crab too.
I like the lomography look...it is cheap, yes, and very lame but it is different from the thousands of other pics my friends have with their DSLR's. My main camera is a Nikon D50, with either my 35mm or 50mm but being a 'hipster teenage girl' I like the uniqueness of this lens. Yes, it is cheap! I mean it is only $60, but it is fun.
i study photohraphy at uni, and i take digital and film images that relate to a particular subject i choose, which id assume you'd agree is real photography? however, i still bought and enjoy using a lomo camera because they're fun and can make a typical image look awesome, you shouldn't bash it, its just another great thing added to the world of photography
@hufer95 how so? sometimes "Hipster photography" produces some interesting images. images that in my opinion someone who has a traditional attitude towards photography could not produce easily. since when has been doing something different than everyone else been a bad thing? from what I remember difference has been prided upon.
BTW i enjoyed your review... i love how you could rattle off a whole mouthful of interesting comments string up together... i made me laugh... Looking forward to more reviews from you... you crack me up... :))))
im using a 60D too, getting plain and boring pics from my diana lens... hmmmmm i tried a cheap chinese plastic holga lens it seems to take slightly more interesting boring pics... i wonder if its a rip off from photojojo hmmm... nonetheless i think im better off if i stick to more inte
@TheHeyCarly Hey retard... it's a pre-reorded video, if you don't wanna hear it turn it off, I can't go back in time and retroactively "shut up" you fucking idiot.
Lomo is not about expensive equipment and amazing shots, it's about shooting from the hip and expressing yourself without having to burn a hole in your wallet.
@bloodhawkisawesome "At least kids are expressing themselves," LOLOLOLOLOOOOL... dude, what horseshit! "expressing yourself" doesn't mean doing EXACTLY what everyone else in your sub-cultural group is doing in EXACTLY the same way.... That's called being a SHEEP, droning into a fad, it's the EXACT OPPOSITE of true expression of ones unique self.
@Blunty3000 You're doing what everyone else is doing as well and has done, with photography and your video channel. Stop being so awfully shortsighted.
@Blunty3000 You're doing what everybody does now. What the fuck does that make you? A hypocrite is what. And show me examples of them doing exactly what everybody else is in their subculture. Idiot.
@Blunty3000 You're doing what everybody does now. What the fuck does that make you? A hypocrite is what. And show me examples of them doing exactly what everybody else is in their subculture. Idiot.
@bloodhawkisawesome I don't think its the aspect of them expressing themselves...I think its the WAY they're trying to play it off. I am all for everyone playing with cameras and photography, its a great art form. However, taking a photo of some leaf or a bench, and then tossing a watermark on it, and saying you're a photographer is pushing it...especially when they go around telling everyone "oh I'm a really good, almost pro photographer" (and yes, I have met that type of hipster...sadly).
I'm with you on this one, why deliberately downgrade your shots for the sake of old times? It makes no sense, technology improves for a reason. I guess it's just not my thing, but I just don't get it at all.
@LeonSKennedy828 I get what you're saying.. But I started lomography because I felt handicapped by all that technology that did it all for me. I wanted to educate my sight, by teaching my eye to calculate the necessary aperture, ISO and shutter speed to get the shot I wanted without all the automation and direct results.. It's like saying "why buy books if we have the Kindle?" I do enjoy a Kindle, but the smell and feel of a book it's irreplaceable. It's not nostalgia, it's curiosity.
This Guy..... I shake my head at hipster photography just as much as the next guy, but I don't blatantly bash them. Come on man, not everybody is like you. You just one of those guys who thought YOU were unique by adopting lomo-style photos and then when more people jumped on that band wagon you probably felt "intruded" and not feel the need to get the point across that the bandwagon sucks and that you are better and more experienced then they will ever be. Chill man and just let ppl have fun.
@xplayerps2x So go cry about it. I'm only communicating my own direct experience, and in my experience there's maybe, MAYBE 5% of the "lomography" douchbags who know sweet fuck all about how to take a decent photo.
I am a professional photographer and im sure i can neil a shot technically, what ever the client wants. But i appreciate the art of lomography, in fact i use lomo cameras on weekends if i just wanna have fun and get a break from professional photography. I hope you be more open minded about different mediums of art. So pls. Don't use the word "stupid".
@mikecool1121 For those wondering about "mikecool's" comment, he accused me of being "kind of an ass" (that's a lie, I'm an entire ass), claimed "this was an awful review", awful products deserve awful reviews champ... he then went on to claim "I am a photographer and I am going to purchase this lens now" So you should all ask him how he gets on with it... he probably won't do a review of his own, all his uploaded videos seem to be stolen content from other people... Rock on Mike, way to be lame
Shooting with old gear is great for real photographers. it's just retarded when your snapping pictures of your friends face while half drunk for the ugly over exposed feel. I did a bit of photography in high school a few years ago and i love working with film. i suppose it's just the more hands on for me then learning the same concepts and using them in photoshop.
Oh my GOD! I LOVE your narrating reviews, I LOVE your pictures, I LOVE your advice and opinion, you make me CRACK!!!. so GET TO WORK! MAKE MORE REVIEWS! I NEED MORE BLUNTY!! MORE MORE MORE!!!! ARRRRRGH!!..
Yeah.. loving troll creeper .... you never thought we existed, hein? ;-)
I'm an avid film photographer and I'd never ever buy anything from Lomography - over priced tat. Especially the crap you can buy to attach to DSLRs - just buy REAL film photography equipment, medium format and 35mm SLRs etc. there will never be a substitute for shooting with real film, neither can a DSLR out-perform a film SLR. the quality acheived on 35mm/120mm film and the enlargement capabilities simply dwarf even the 5D Mark II - and film equipment is affordable! (if you don't buy lomo)
My first SLR was a Pentax K-1000 I picked up for 30 bucks. It wasn't by choice but rather a straped budget. Learned alot from using a manuel camera that I wouldn't have learned from using a DSLR.
I don't know. I like super 8 cameras for shooting video. I love shooting HD on dslr's. I guess super 8 is technically way worse, but it captures a cool look.
I think the plastic lenses are cool on a film camera, just to throw in the bag and snap random stuff of. I hate carrying a dslr around. Kinda cool I guess, but getting a lens like this for a digital camera is lame.
wow, this is an expensive hobby. for something that's suppose to be so low tech and 'cheap'... Well, one for that lomography store, they're really cashing out on all this hipster artsy fartsy crap.
I dont think 60 buks is worthed to experiment cuz well ever since I gt my first film slr I've experimente with everything I got in hand like papercups little mirrors to bounce light near the lence and a lotta stuff that sometimes not even I can belive I tried si for those who think shit like this s good for art experimenting should really evaluate their "artistical" view
Its pretty bullshit that this thing costs more than a few bucks, but I really do love those shots of skyscrapers and office buildings at night you took. The way each individual window explodes with softness is pretty nifty. I can see this lens being great to take to some pictures of a city that's loaded up on lights and neon, like Tokyo.
Stupid, elitist bastards who feel the need to completely stay away from mainstream culture, but shun everyone who is even remotely part of it. For some reason, they also think that they are artistically superior to everyone else, simply because they listen to ridiculous indie music and can appreciate a pile of vomit on the pavement as "art".
@foojuice101 Oh - you mean - just like the same exact thing you're doing to them, you fucking hypocrite? Ha, ha. Idiot. Oh - and indie music like any music can be real good or real bad the only difference is their labels don't tell them what and what not to do. Go listen to mainstream musicians bitch about not having artistic control and tell me that's better.
That "Dreamy Diana" thing makes the pictures look like someone smudged their disgusting, oily fingers over the lens of some cheap disposable camera from the $2 Shop.
you know, ive never really been into photography, but i do really like watching your photo and camera vids and reviews. maybe its because of all the PWETTY COLOURS!!!! >.< loving the vids nate
LOL, if i ever considered buying this... i don't think i would after this review. the results just don't measure up to the price and quality. although one of your last pictures with a shoe and some raindrops beside it is AWESOME.
OR you could probably get a better photo by placing a piece of glad wrap on the lens and taking the same photos. I'm sure it'll give off the same "aesthetic" photo.
Some folks seem to love this sort of... retro aesthetic. The very thing we used to lament and growl about hoping for the day we could burn all that lofi crap...
Half way through the video all I could think was "someone just doesn't get it" and "What a troll"... But then you turned around and I really enjoyed the rest of the video. I'm not saying anyone should really have to love lenses/camera gear like this, but there is a certain charm [in lofi analog gear] and it's good to see when someone atleast opens up to it. Just don't write Lomography off based on what a bunch of posers are doing... that's even worse than being a hipster.
The rough equivalent of a handicap button? I'm happy you can find some worth in it, I suppose. I know most of the people who own one of these are probably in the category of people whose tables I wish to upset when I stroll past starbucks...
Alternatively, that you enjoy a challenge in your work means that you love what you do, and good on you for that!
Hahahah xD this is hilarious.
selfishradio 5 days ago
You guys all need to relax a little. You really shouldn't blindly believe something. You can't say "i love hipsters" or "i hate hipsters" because you haven't met all of them. As for the camera, I'm a n00b but still really enjoy shooting with my Holga. No nostalgia, I just like the challenge.
MsDancingRobot 5 days ago
Fuck hipsters. Liking a style of art because it's not popular is just as bad as liking a style of art because it is popular. Like art because YOU like it, not for its popularity level.
db0ywills 1 week ago
100 hipsters watches this on their first gen iMacs.
nik282000 1 week ago
Sir I love you, *subscribed*
monkeyboy308 1 week ago
wooow. you can produce the same result with an improvised lens.
it's puzzling to know that you have to spend a ridiculous amount of money just to get crappy results.
imo, if you're really skillful and artistic, you wouldnt really need this kind of crap.
but it's a great deal, i suppose. for $60, you get a seemingly cheaply made lens, and crappy pictures.
it's better to get a different lens, seriously.
juiljuil76 1 week ago
Lomo is wannabe photography for wannabes. You cunts who are defending "lomography" are ignorant.
MRKRSHTN 1 week ago
I don't really have a problem with hipsters.
I have a problem with lomographers.
sadly, pretty much all lomographers are hipsters but thankfully not all hipsters are lomographers.
hobocamptheater 1 week ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Fuck hipsters i live in byron bay its full of those annoying fucking idiots
reeflil 2 weeks ago
I'm not even a photographer but I thought this video was really interesting. I agree that the lashing out on "hipsters" was maybe a little unnecessary... But your username IS Blunty after all. Anyway, really interesting and I'm definitely a new fan!
hugabear9696 3 weeks ago
"Gee, I sure am glad I bought this super high-tech camera that has been in development for years which takes amazing photographs and cost a fortune... only to follow it up with the purchase of a shitty piece of plastic which completely degrades and ruins precisely what the camera was made for!"
BananaMammoth 3 weeks ago in playlist Gadgets, Tech and Software reviews
@BananaMammoth It's not like you would use it as a primary lens, or for everyday work. It's a unique lens you use for certain situations. You can buy a 12mm wide angle lens, a great lens, but you're probably not going to use it for sports photography are you? Every piece of equipment has a different application.
OhMyKromi 2 weeks ago
Wow, dude, a VERY biased review much. I am NOT hipster, yet own one of these camera's, and I have to admit that they are really cool...especially with instant back.
CrimsonBloodAndDeath 4 weeks ago
I rather hipsters take pictures than make music.......
enlphoto 1 month ago
Although i liked the review, as it was thorough, Your view on the youth using it pays no credit to your insight into the pro's and cons of this lens. At least they're vesting their time in an interest.
MaxxxPowerr 1 month ago
Really good reviewing. I wish everybody reviewed everything in this manner. It's quite amusing, yet informative, and interesting.
YourPalHDee 1 month ago
haha only real hipsters gettin mad about this funny little review xD THX Blunty! :)
FieserBauer 1 month ago
I could care weather or not it makes me look like a hipster or not really, my broke ass is just trying to work with a budget. The good ones that you put up do instantly transmit what's unique about themselves. I guess I could be willing to drop that many shots with a lower yield of decent photos for those kinds of results.
xXbastardX 1 month ago
Good review. I've been looking around youtube for a little while now and am considering getting some of these different plastic lenses for my NEX. To be honest I think the nostalgia factor is more in the composition of the photos themselves rather than what it's supposed to emulate. Many cinematographers use this kind of soft focus and lighting when shooting scenes in movies pertaining to deceased loved ones and old memories, least that's what I take away from it.
xXbastardX 1 month ago
Who cares if someone is a "hipster"? What the hell have they done to you for you to trash talk them so much? Seriously, Lomography is a style of photography, and isn't just reserved for "hipsters". Not all photos have to be taken perfectly with digital cameras. Hating on people isn't going to solve any problems. There's no reason to waste time on stupid shit like that.
jemXero 1 month ago 5
@jemXero Hipsters are a cancer whose vapid posing has contributed absolutely nothing of worth to culture, and "lomography" isn't a 'style', it's a marketing gimmick to sell cheap plastic shit at high prices to morons who're too young for genuine nostalgia for the equipment it's designed to poorly emulate so they can think they're "artistic".
Blunty3000 1 month ago 18
@Blunty3000 I see what you're getting at. I'm not particularly fond of all these talentless hipsters myself, really. I'm an artist, and I enjoy combining SKILL with CONCEPT. I don't really like abstract art or modern art because of its cheap, gimmicky ridiculousness. However, I will say that if you use this "cheap piece of plastic" properly, you can definitely get a very nice "dreamy" effect. I enjoy the aesthetic of it, but that's not to say I don't like the sterility of regular photography...
justintylercarey 1 month ago
@Blunty3000 Sounds like bullshit elitism to me.
murf69 2 weeks ago
@Blunty3000 I'm not even a hipster and I think you're a complete dumb fuck. Probably a burnt out stoner.
Slightlyevil 2 weeks ago
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SoiPao4414 2 weeks ago
you paid sixty dollars, what were you expecting; solid gold?
superbandaid23 1 month ago
Good review though the ranting about hipsters was a little much. Probably will pick this up to save time on color correcting my video.
lancebramsay 1 month ago
You seem incredibly pissed off about... something?
I guess you get what your personality deserves in the end; you pay $60+ for something you yourself know is worth very little just so you can review it and complain about... pretty much everything you discuss.
mrGoodbomb 1 month ago 3
Hipster photography annoys me, as much as I like the thought of people expressing themselves through imaging media, it just seems pointless, no 'stunning' images seem to come out of it, Ive never seen a hipster photo and though 'wish I could take images like that' because to put it simply, my 6 year old brother could take the same photos, and theyd probably see them as even more expressional. :L
Ill gladly keep shooting normal photos with my normal lenses for the time being :L
Robellislol 2 months ago
I'm fine with hipsters, actually, some relative and the majority of their friends are hipsters. Where I cross the line is at standard hipster photography. Film grain is fine, blooming is fine, soft focus is fine, and so many other things are fine. doing them all in the same picture on purpose knowing what the outcome is gonna be is just annoying. Thankfully all the hipster people I know/are related to have only a passing interest in doing photography and none of them have this kind of taste. YAY
hobocamptheater 2 months ago
This lens is a waste of money. Basically, all it does is make images look softer (a feature most DSLRs have). HUGE waste of money. If you want the Diana effect, just buy some lomography or expired film and put it in a toy camera.
ITSbigwillystyle 2 months ago
I really dont like hipsters especially when they waste rare films, ie cross processing it or red scaling it but more importantly i hate the Lomography "society" who brainwash hipster to buy there crazily priced cameras, i bought a Minolta x-700 with 3 lenses, cokin filter set and underwater housing for £50 the same price as a diana mini!! Though i dislike them some of there images are really good and very interesting, and i geuss they are helping to keep film photography alive.
LONG LIVE FILM!
brandkow93 2 months ago
this guy is fucking retarded. There is no need to completely BASH diana cameras AND hipster photography. you are the one who went and bought the shitty imitation lens for just under the price of the actual fucking camera, there is no point! if you want the effects of a diana just but a fucking diana! dumbas!!
ItsAlwaysLikeEthan 2 months ago
Looks like a really fun lens to use, I just got the holga lens for DSLR for xmas, and I came across this lens on photojojo the other day, can't wait to get one now :)
RedSpectrumPictures 2 months ago
Decent review, I do think its silly to think of this lens, and indeed the lomo cameras as more than something to have fun with but sometimes an interesting picture or two can be taken with them :)
TripeHoundRedux 2 months ago
I'm no hipster, but I like some of the feel and look of film. I've done some digital lomography (that is, touching my pics to look older) and they produce MASSIVELY better pictures than this lens does...I'd rather just get the actual Diana. O_o
atarimon 2 months ago in playlist More videos from Blunty3000
Obviously people did not watch this review from start to finish. I'm glad I did because you turned me against buying it and then back to buying it... and then pretty much let me make my own decision. In all honesty, I know too many people you seem to refer to as "Hipster Photographers" and they all shoot in auto mode and I want to shoot them.
I reckon I WILL be buying this lens after seeing this video (maybe for a slightly cheaper price on ebay) not for the quality, merely for the fun :)
Rufucoll 2 months ago
@blunty Damm straight
Xamanthas 2 months ago
I'm sure all of these great photo's (on the lomography website) are all down to sheer luck - stop being a cock ... the problem with all your photo's that you took is that they lack imagination ... just like most hipsters! The diana lens is all about having fun - pull your head out of you ass - play - you may just capture what the diana does best - LIFE!!!!!
jonathannienaber 2 months ago
@jonathannienaber Maybe should have watched the whole thing before reacting dumbass.
Blunty3000 2 months ago 27
LOL
Billywask 2 months ago
haha - Thanks Blunty. Love the anti-hipster vehemence, and I'm glad you enjoyed the experience. You don't need to be a hipster to appreciate lo-fi photography, and although I agree the hipster demand has made the Diana overpriced, I know lots of excellent artists who speak well of it.
featheroflead2442 3 months ago
Thank you for saying that hipsters have no talent. THANK YOU! When I sold the majority of my 35mm gear to fund some DSLR stuff, guess who bought all my gear? ....yea... you guessed it.
You can't just take a picture of a fire hydrant, put a white frame on it and watermark in photoshop, toss it up on Flickr and call yourself a photographer.
I want a drinking buddy like this guy... we'd get along really well hahaha
em613 3 months ago
I like using old film SLR's cause I was born in the digital era and realized that the effortless auto crap sucks and digital SLR's are a little to expensive to just casually carry around in your bag. I am actually kind of looking forward to using the diana but I am worried about not having any idea how my photo is going to look before I take it and I think your opinion's were useful as offensive as the may have been but thanks for making this video.
SkateboardTaco 3 months ago
this guy should be my new drinking buddy!
KeMiSTv1 3 months ago
Lmao. I love this guys commentary.
SupratechMEDIA 3 months ago
Why not just get a 35mm SLR? You can get a EOS Rebel for like $20 these days. BTW, we are the 99%! We use MacBook's all day at starbucks! We're fashionable! But I would still never buy this lens.
ThoseTechGuys 3 months ago
It takes photos like a cheap cell phone, but nothing like any of the decent film camera from the 60's, 70's or 80's. Even instamatics took better outdoor pictures than that. If they want real control over their exposure, why not buy a film camera? There are thousands of them for sale for the cost of a roll of good film.
rmcnabb 3 months ago
Us Lomographers' have no talent, and can't take a picture for our lives? that's an opinion. Because us "hipsters" like beautiful, weird and wacky photography doesn't mean we cant take, what you call decent pictures. You aren't very nice to bash our "subculture" camera because you don't like its results. because your on the boat where you over think every picture you take, then still are not satisfied so you still feel the need to further alter it more in a computer. And or photography sucks...
tykenotdyke81 3 months ago
his name is blunty for fucks sake, get over it
anUHkins 3 months ago
Punchy. You are my hero. seriously. I live in sydney and would love to do a photography project with you. If not, we could just complain about those pretentious, irritating hipsters.
SilkySkillsUnited 3 months ago
i love his jokes
TheBierwas 3 months ago
I don't see why people say you are completely bashing the product, you pointed out your opinion and the build quality of the lens; you even go on to mention how the unpredictability is refreshing. People get far too upset when people have something realistic and not fluffy and catering to them that they have come to expect. I enjoyed the review.
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@TheZayneDerden People who choose to change themselves to fit into a "subculture" as elitist and pretentious as "hipsters" tend to only hear criticisms and filter out anything that doesn't let them pretend to be a "victim" and feel all special and exclusive. Basic psychology, entirely predictable and common. Hipsters are posers, nothing they have, do or say is authentic. It's all about image and how they try to be perceived. Most pathetically needy "subculture" to arise EVER.
Blunty3000 3 months ago 2
@Blunty3000 everything you just said makes you sound like a nazi. Calm down. why the fuck do you care how people want to act? is it really affecting your life that much
BundleUpProductions 3 months ago
@BundleUpProductions 0 to Godwin's law in 2.5 seconds... there's always one supertard ready to leap to Godwin's law. GTFO moron.
Blunty3000 3 months ago 5
>get pissy about lomography.
>spent over $60 on their products.
you sure showed them bro.
andimhisfriendjesus 3 months ago
If you knew anything about lomography, you would know that the point of it was to use the crappiest plastic to take oversaturated pictures and double exposures.
VanHalenlvr2012 3 months ago
he doesnt take into account that "Lomographers" PAY for film roll, so technically the CHEAP man is you Blunty. (who probably moved into the digital wolrd for its affordable expendables)
jimmy8boy 3 months ago
You people are hilarious. Why don't we all adopt the IDGAF attitude ??
bonita82 3 months ago
how to get a lo-fi looking picture. get a smart phone or a computer, use a photo-editing program (theres even websites you can do this with out paying) find a lo-fi image filter apply. done.
TheEpicGREENMAN 3 months ago
those ridiculous lenses bring those good lenses now we got it
azad7907 3 months ago
I like the Lomographic look as well, it looks nice but it's, yes, cheap. But does everything have to be so expensive? The Canon EF lenses and Sigma lenses are so expensive, and the quality is in budget category even grabbier than with this Diana lens because of the price you are paying of them. I have bought some nice Diana lens for some 30-40 euros, and I'm satisfied about the quality what I get with that money. I have owned expensive 2500 euros costing Sigma TELE lenses, and they are crab too.
mtilli82 3 months ago
this lens is shit. the effect is a result of the film used
felipe200794 4 months ago
I like the lomography look...it is cheap, yes, and very lame but it is different from the thousands of other pics my friends have with their DSLR's. My main camera is a Nikon D50, with either my 35mm or 50mm but being a 'hipster teenage girl' I like the uniqueness of this lens. Yes, it is cheap! I mean it is only $60, but it is fun.
alexandra52694858 4 months ago
i study photohraphy at uni, and i take digital and film images that relate to a particular subject i choose, which id assume you'd agree is real photography? however, i still bought and enjoy using a lomo camera because they're fun and can make a typical image look awesome, you shouldn't bash it, its just another great thing added to the world of photography
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WOW, this review was very hipster, is it supposed to be ironic? I don´t understand anymore...
Why taking the time to make a full review out of it? where you the first and unique guy to use youtube? really?
Aren´t you using an SLR camera like any other hipster? o wait!!! i understand now, you are a F#$%!"#HATER! NOW THAT MAKES SENCE haha
Am I writting in english now like everyone else in this post? Please don´t make me a SHEEP!!!!!!
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a hipster is the worst being to ever pick up a camera.
hufer95 4 months ago
@hufer95 how so? sometimes "Hipster photography" produces some interesting images. images that in my opinion someone who has a traditional attitude towards photography could not produce easily. since when has been doing something different than everyone else been a bad thing? from what I remember difference has been prided upon.
U23Drocs 4 months ago
@U23Drocs It's silly though how all pictures are made like they're following eachother. Being yourself is the true factor of artistic originality.
hufer95 4 months ago
interesting lens like 18-55mm
crazimeganut 4 months ago
BTW i enjoyed your review... i love how you could rattle off a whole mouthful of interesting comments string up together... i made me laugh... Looking forward to more reviews from you... you crack me up... :))))
im using a 60D too, getting plain and boring pics from my diana lens... hmmmmm i tried a cheap chinese plastic holga lens it seems to take slightly more interesting boring pics... i wonder if its a rip off from photojojo hmmm... nonetheless i think im better off if i stick to more inte
crazimeganut 4 months ago
interesting review... found your sample picture useful.. thanks...
did you edit them or just straight out of the card? i got this lens too out of curiousity... not very interesting shots i get hmmm
crazimeganut 4 months ago
Ok so you complain about the price, why buy it?
transformaconband 4 months ago
What if one actually enjoys using film based cameras?
Johnjy2 5 months ago
oh just shut the fuck up
TheHeyCarly 6 months ago
@TheHeyCarly Hey retard... it's a pre-reorded video, if you don't wanna hear it turn it off, I can't go back in time and retroactively "shut up" you fucking idiot.
Blunty3000 6 months ago 13
@Blunty3000 I have to disagree - your criticism is spot on, and you have the gift of gab. Well done.
dabearcub 4 months ago
Lomo is not about expensive equipment and amazing shots, it's about shooting from the hip and expressing yourself without having to burn a hole in your wallet.
goldensquirrel1337 6 months ago
All the people bitching about "hipster photography" are stupid.
At least kids are expressing themselves, who cares if it may be in a way that a lot of people are?
Photography is you capturing what you think is interesting or beautiful, your judgement of it matters the most over anyone else.
bloodhawkisawesome 7 months ago 39
@bloodhawkisawesome "At least kids are expressing themselves," LOLOLOLOLOOOOL... dude, what horseshit! "expressing yourself" doesn't mean doing EXACTLY what everyone else in your sub-cultural group is doing in EXACTLY the same way.... That's called being a SHEEP, droning into a fad, it's the EXACT OPPOSITE of true expression of ones unique self.
Blunty3000 7 months ago
@Blunty3000 You're doing what everyone else is doing as well and has done, with photography and your video channel. Stop being so awfully shortsighted.
Rishix01 6 months ago
@Blunty3000 so buying into the idea of 18 megapixels of sharpness and perfection is no different?
U23Drocs 6 months ago
@Blunty3000 You're doing what everybody does now. What the fuck does that make you? A hypocrite is what. And show me examples of them doing exactly what everybody else is in their subculture. Idiot.
StarvingSound 5 months ago
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@Blunty3000 You're doing what everybody does now. What the fuck does that make you? A hypocrite is what. And show me examples of them doing exactly what everybody else is in their subculture. Idiot.
StarvingSound 5 months ago
@bloodhawkisawesome I don't think its the aspect of them expressing themselves...I think its the WAY they're trying to play it off. I am all for everyone playing with cameras and photography, its a great art form. However, taking a photo of some leaf or a bench, and then tossing a watermark on it, and saying you're a photographer is pushing it...especially when they go around telling everyone "oh I'm a really good, almost pro photographer" (and yes, I have met that type of hipster...sadly).
em613 3 months ago
I'm with you on this one, why deliberately downgrade your shots for the sake of old times? It makes no sense, technology improves for a reason. I guess it's just not my thing, but I just don't get it at all.
LeonSKennedy828 7 months ago
@LeonSKennedy828 I get what you're saying.. But I started lomography because I felt handicapped by all that technology that did it all for me. I wanted to educate my sight, by teaching my eye to calculate the necessary aperture, ISO and shutter speed to get the shot I wanted without all the automation and direct results.. It's like saying "why buy books if we have the Kindle?" I do enjoy a Kindle, but the smell and feel of a book it's irreplaceable. It's not nostalgia, it's curiosity.
tekilatree 7 months ago
I love it tho.
SgtplagIVIaIV 7 months ago
This Guy..... I shake my head at hipster photography just as much as the next guy, but I don't blatantly bash them. Come on man, not everybody is like you. You just one of those guys who thought YOU were unique by adopting lomo-style photos and then when more people jumped on that band wagon you probably felt "intruded" and not feel the need to get the point across that the bandwagon sucks and that you are better and more experienced then they will ever be. Chill man and just let ppl have fun.
SgtplagIVIaIV 7 months ago 54
@SgtplagIVIaIV Go cry about it dude.... corner's right over there.
Blunty3000 7 months ago
@Blunty3000 Someone has a different opinion of mine, where's a witty retort?
Spoothead12 7 months ago
@xplayerps2x And that's YOUR ignorance. you've got no fucking clue what, or how much I know about "them and their art"... go troll elsewhere tryhard.
Blunty3000 8 months ago
@Blunty3000 You're a legend.
Harlei3 7 months ago
@xplayerps2x My ignorance of... what? I'm somehow ignorant of my own experience? You moron.
Blunty3000 8 months ago
@xplayerps2x So go cry about it. I'm only communicating my own direct experience, and in my experience there's maybe, MAYBE 5% of the "lomography" douchbags who know sweet fuck all about how to take a decent photo.
Blunty3000 8 months ago
@xplayerps2x The end result is all that matters yes. But at the same
Time, Leonardo didn't paint the Mina Lisa using a chewed up stick of celery either.
Blunty3000 8 months ago
I am a professional photographer and im sure i can neil a shot technically, what ever the client wants. But i appreciate the art of lomography, in fact i use lomo cameras on weekends if i just wanna have fun and get a break from professional photography. I hope you be more open minded about different mediums of art. So pls. Don't use the word "stupid".
fmeffects 8 months ago 17
Good review man!
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mikecool1121 8 months ago
@mikecool1121 For those wondering about "mikecool's" comment, he accused me of being "kind of an ass" (that's a lie, I'm an entire ass), claimed "this was an awful review", awful products deserve awful reviews champ... he then went on to claim "I am a photographer and I am going to purchase this lens now" So you should all ask him how he gets on with it... he probably won't do a review of his own, all his uploaded videos seem to be stolen content from other people... Rock on Mike, way to be lame
Blunty3000 8 months ago
i own a 1963 polaroid 100 automatic, and i think its wayyy better than many bulcrap point and shoot digital cameras today
samthelegoman1 8 months ago
Why would they make an adapter for Canon and Nikon? I'm pretty sure they're too mainstream for hipsters.
Decimator92 8 months ago
no 6:12?
nice
drago433 8 months ago
Shooting with old gear is great for real photographers. it's just retarded when your snapping pictures of your friends face while half drunk for the ugly over exposed feel. I did a bit of photography in high school a few years ago and i love working with film. i suppose it's just the more hands on for me then learning the same concepts and using them in photoshop.
during that time i used my dad's old Fujica ST801
BringerOfD 8 months ago
Oh my GOD! I LOVE your narrating reviews, I LOVE your pictures, I LOVE your advice and opinion, you make me CRACK!!!. so GET TO WORK! MAKE MORE REVIEWS! I NEED MORE BLUNTY!! MORE MORE MORE!!!! ARRRRRGH!!..
Yeah.. loving troll creeper .... you never thought we existed, hein? ;-)
Good job mate. You're one hell of an entertainer.
tekilatree 8 months ago
I'm an avid film photographer and I'd never ever buy anything from Lomography - over priced tat. Especially the crap you can buy to attach to DSLRs - just buy REAL film photography equipment, medium format and 35mm SLRs etc. there will never be a substitute for shooting with real film, neither can a DSLR out-perform a film SLR. the quality acheived on 35mm/120mm film and the enlargement capabilities simply dwarf even the 5D Mark II - and film equipment is affordable! (if you don't buy lomo)
adamlunatone 8 months ago
love the description of the kids that use these camera's in England we call them DICKHEADS!
hassa69 8 months ago
i have a old slr Cannon Ae1
croftywho 8 months ago
My first SLR was a Pentax K-1000 I picked up for 30 bucks. It wasn't by choice but rather a straped budget. Learned alot from using a manuel camera that I wouldn't have learned from using a DSLR.
I'm a Rebel XS (1000d) user nowadays.
GalaticTG 8 months ago
@GalaticTG the Pentax K-1000 is what I was actually taught on, fantastic way to learn (in the pre-digital days anyway ;) )
Blunty3000 8 months ago
I don't know. I like super 8 cameras for shooting video. I love shooting HD on dslr's. I guess super 8 is technically way worse, but it captures a cool look.
I think the plastic lenses are cool on a film camera, just to throw in the bag and snap random stuff of. I hate carrying a dslr around. Kinda cool I guess, but getting a lens like this for a digital camera is lame.
Nihilism13 8 months ago
@ 4:41 was that building rainbow coloured or did the camera just fuck you over?
either way it looks weird but damn that city looks amazing I wish I lived there :p
DanielDanteThe2nd 8 months ago
@DanielDanteThe2nd No, it's white, the raimbow you're seeing is a light-show thing that was going on, projected onto the building.
Blunty3000 8 months ago
Good vid. I bet some of these people were like "who is this creepy bearded guy taking photo's of me?" lol.
AussieKanga89 8 months ago
@AussieKanga89 There are actually NO privacy laws for pedestrians in Australia, thankfully.
Harlei3 8 months ago
@Harlei3 did I say there was? You missed the point.
AussieKanga89 8 months ago
lol i like how he complains the iam trying to hard to be creative and deep pictures hipsters take. then he takes a bunch like that. idiot
unholychunk 8 months ago
@unholychunk wow, talk about missing the point. WOOSH. bet you dropped out of school just to start your mcdonalds career early, eh?
WinterXL 8 months ago
@WinterXL what is school?
unholychunk 8 months ago
blunty do you have a flickr?
gtochad 8 months ago
wow, this is an expensive hobby. for something that's suppose to be so low tech and 'cheap'... Well, one for that lomography store, they're really cashing out on all this hipster artsy fartsy crap.
nuriko001 8 months ago
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not to mention you could probably buy a cheaply built camera for an actual cheap price in many places.
alphamone 8 months ago
At first, the pictures you showed made me cringe a bit. I liked some of the later ones, though.
I wish I could do more photography. It takes time, though, and it's too hot out anyway.
josephrockz4 8 months ago
I dont think 60 buks is worthed to experiment cuz well ever since I gt my first film slr I've experimente with everything I got in hand like papercups little mirrors to bounce light near the lence and a lotta stuff that sometimes not even I can belive I tried si for those who think shit like this s good for art experimenting should really evaluate their "artistical" view
filiesillo 8 months ago
Its pretty bullshit that this thing costs more than a few bucks, but I really do love those shots of skyscrapers and office buildings at night you took. The way each individual window explodes with softness is pretty nifty. I can see this lens being great to take to some pictures of a city that's loaded up on lights and neon, like Tokyo.
swirlingabyss 8 months ago
The first picture was actually pretty cool.
Venddenta 8 months ago
What the hell is a hipster? I'm 20 years old and I have no idea what a hipster is.
WBFC1995 8 months ago
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Stupid, elitist bastards who feel the need to completely stay away from mainstream culture, but shun everyone who is even remotely part of it. For some reason, they also think that they are artistically superior to everyone else, simply because they listen to ridiculous indie music and can appreciate a pile of vomit on the pavement as "art".
foojuice101 8 months ago
@foojuice101 Oh - you mean - just like the same exact thing you're doing to them, you fucking hypocrite? Ha, ha. Idiot. Oh - and indie music like any music can be real good or real bad the only difference is their labels don't tell them what and what not to do. Go listen to mainstream musicians bitch about not having artistic control and tell me that's better.
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...What are you on about?
foojuice101 5 months ago
I see hipsters all the time, flouncing around like a bunch of mindless insects... ON MY WAY TO WORK!!!!!!
damnedatom 8 months ago
I don't get the point of stupid shit likes this... ignorant hippies... T_T
RaccoonBoy23 8 months ago
That "Dreamy Diana" thing makes the pictures look like someone smudged their disgusting, oily fingers over the lens of some cheap disposable camera from the $2 Shop.
foojuice101 8 months ago
you know, ive never really been into photography, but i do really like watching your photo and camera vids and reviews. maybe its because of all the PWETTY COLOURS!!!! >.< loving the vids nate
shamitri 8 months ago
LOL, if i ever considered buying this... i don't think i would after this review. the results just don't measure up to the price and quality. although one of your last pictures with a shoe and some raindrops beside it is AWESOME.
-thanks for the review.
babicripcid36 8 months ago
i have a point to make here, but you ve probably never heard of it...
kravens001 8 months ago
it takes balls to buy a product geared towards people you despise
Atothefourth 8 months ago
these pictures hurt my eyes e_e
gabrielk44 8 months ago
LOL. I love you. Hipsters/Indies what ever you wanna call them, are stupid.
EllenIsAusome 8 months ago
I hate hipsters
klum18 8 months ago
I think it'd be amazing to run into you on the street. Did you explore the vivid festival?
justteamore 8 months ago
north sydney
razzledazzlepanda 8 months ago
just bought a lens filter for $20 at best buy.... diffusion filter its called...does the same damn thing
Kat19P 8 months ago
was going to ask what you edited with, Iv used aperture for about 1.5 year now and I havnt touched photoshop since. Its so easy to use :-)
photographymatt 8 months ago
So, wait, why did you buy ti?
JMCatron 8 months ago
no ones said this yet? well here it go`s.
Watching a video about photography in 240p is MLG
MegaGadgetdude 8 months ago
The camera is only a tool.
More important than material wealth is a wealth of knowledge and skill.
There is nothing wrong with toy cameras and the effect they get when used with skill.
hubertcubeart 8 months ago
rubbish, expensive rubbish at that . lol I like my T2i to do something like that to it.
daddytech 8 months ago
OR you could probably get a better photo by placing a piece of glad wrap on the lens and taking the same photos. I'm sure it'll give off the same "aesthetic" photo.
Heartless969 8 months ago
lol $60
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eggs808 8 months ago
Some folks seem to love this sort of... retro aesthetic. The very thing we used to lament and growl about hoping for the day we could burn all that lofi crap...
RyuDarragh 8 months ago
Oh my god, so artistic UGHGHGHGHGHG!
X1Jebus 8 months ago
if u hate these things why would you review one?
cojocoolio 8 months ago
Half way through the video all I could think was "someone just doesn't get it" and "What a troll"... But then you turned around and I really enjoyed the rest of the video. I'm not saying anyone should really have to love lenses/camera gear like this, but there is a certain charm [in lofi analog gear] and it's good to see when someone atleast opens up to it. Just don't write Lomography off based on what a bunch of posers are doing... that's even worse than being a hipster.
hezzart 8 months ago 2
The rough equivalent of a handicap button? I'm happy you can find some worth in it, I suppose. I know most of the people who own one of these are probably in the category of people whose tables I wish to upset when I stroll past starbucks...
Alternatively, that you enjoy a challenge in your work means that you love what you do, and good on you for that!
Aitamen 8 months ago
Awesome vid, alright pictures ^_^
wandulage 8 months ago
I was using this lens before it was cool to use to these lenses.
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@asimsinthehouse "I was using this lens before it was cool to use to these lenses."
^^ a hipster's version of typing "first" in a youtube comment
WinterXL 8 months ago
you could just set the shuuter time for slightly longer and hold it as still as possible, you'll probably get the same results
Spedding101 8 months ago
Awesome ranty-review...thingy :)
2012Gojira 8 months ago
I don't understand lenses like this. Why not just take photos properly and then edit them afterwards to achieve the effect you want?
sporkafife 8 months ago
Taking photos is too mainstream.
MartinLG0 8 months ago
waste of money, u could add the effects post production. I understand what ur on about x
TaintedAnglelWings 8 months ago
What is this like if you want to record video and get the desired effect without a shit load of post production grading?
MiffyProductions 8 months ago