I thought I post some random photography that I took over the last few weeks or months.

All of them taken with a Lomo LC-A on Fuji Superia 200
Please feel free to add me up on flickr.

peace
Chris / @chrishimself84

Theres amazing stuff on Youtube nowadays! You should get an account now and subscribe to The Mijonju Show ! Why ? Because its about super cool cameras and super cool things !!

He reviews cameras of all kinds but not the boring ones that you see at some kind of electronics store, NO ! as I said its about super cool cameras ! :)

Check out one of his latest reviews on the FUJIPET.

I also enjoy his videos about events, like this latest Lomowalk with the good crowd from Lomography Japan.

This is also super cool VOLTRON ooooo mmmm ggggg !!

(Photo source Mijonju on Flickr)

@Mijonju also has a twitter make sure to follow him if you have an account and help spread the word about his show by sharing this blogpost on your facebook wall,
its easy just click the like button on top now.

Thanks and watch some more Youtube and a little less crap like Frauentausch on TV.

Chris aka @chrishimself84

Hello fellow RUNFFM.com viewers,

when I was in Tokyo last year I was looking for this kind of camera around several shops but couldnt find it anywhere, so I decided to pick it up whenever
I had the chance to. I kept an eye on the online retailers but most of them wouldnt ship anything outside Japan.
I stumbled across a service called Tenso.com which forwards you mail from Japan to your “outside Japan” address, its also called “proxy shipping”.
When I found out that the camera was still on sale for just about 5000yen I had to grab it since I havent seen it for under 7800 anywhere in Tokyo.

Here are some pictures of the camera itself (taken with my GR Digital), I will be taking photos with the Yashica for my next post.

The name digital Holga came from several users in the community that compared the image quality to the typical lomography cameras, like the Holga.
I think I will be able to tell you more about the image quality once I have tested the camera out, I think for just about 50€ its a fair deal for any camera fan or collector,
its not that its a really good camera but it has quite a novelty factor, especially since it is not officially availible outside of Japan.

Its quite a small camera with a classic retro look and a rubber lens cap.

Hope you enjoyed the first look into the Yashica EZ Digital F521 (what a name) and I hope you’ll be looking forward to the upcoming blogposts :)

Update here is one test shot straight from the camera (just tagged it and resized)

cheers Chrishimself
twitter me @chrishimself84

Heres my last Lomo LCA Tokyo film this time I tried out the Kodak Ektar 100 film that I bought at the Yodobashi Camera shop. I heard its a more professional film and I was wondering how this film will turn out with the “kinda low-fi” (not to degrade this great camera) Lomo LCA.

Enjoy the pictures and I hope you might get the urge to visit Tokyo, great city!

photos by
Chris / @Chrishimself84

Some people have asked me what kind of camera I used for the black and white shots from Tokyo.
Well while I was at the Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara, I got the idea that it would be interesting to take some black and white shots on film while I am in Tokyo. I only had my Lomo LCA with me that used 35mm film and I still had more than 20 shots left on the roll that I still had to take, while wandering around this huge store I found those Single Use Cameras.

When I saw the results I thought I should give it another try and got me some more of those ^^;

Black&White Film FTW!
Chrishimself

I’m back from Tokyo and developed + scanned some of my photos already, here is a little taste for you guys who follow RUNFFM.COM for the random photography that I do.

Have a nice start of the week, I’m beamin out! ;)

Chrishimself

Hey everybody,

Cheers from London!! I got here yesterday by the Eurostar train, that runs under the English Channel. I really wanted to experience this, but I’m glad to travel home by plane after all. I finally got to my hostel somehow and met up with Dani, who I went to school with. She has been living here for some months now alreadyyyyy. I catched the last minutes of the Champions League match between Arsenal and Barça and what can I say… After I entered the pub, Arsenal scored two goals. After that, she and her roommate took me to some nice bakeries and also to a cool pub. Dani even wore some OG Adidas sneakers, that her grandma used to rock in the 70s, but due to all the talking and laughing I unfortunately forgot to take a picture of them.

So, here’s the first pic for you: Tower Bridge & me. I have to admit, that I wasn’t feeling too well this morning, but anywayz…

The first thing I bought is easily the most useful of all the things I bought today, but also the most unspectacular one.

Anywayz, I got on the tube to Putney Bridge to check out one of Simon‘s practices with the Oxford eight. The Boat Race on Saturday between Oxford and Cambridge is why I made this trip. Here he is with the white cap.

Oh, and by the way, they even have the Oxford University Boat Club seal on their rubber botts. Now, that’s style!! After the practice I made my way to Soho. First stop was the BAPE store, where the staff was so amazingly friendly. I got me this coin case, because, you know, when you get the chance to go into a BAPE store…

BAPE store, 4 Upper James Street, Soho, London, UK – eu.bape.com

Not far away is Carnaby Street, where you’ll find also some nice shops. I went into the WeSC store and came out with these limited edition headphones, including a matching Be@rbrick and also some sort of bag, also in the same colours.

I was already thinking for months now about getting those, but: Dani, you’re right!! I can’t stop listening to music right now!!! So good.

WeSC store, 43 Carnaby Street, Soho, London, UK – www.wesc.com

I also went into size? and they really have a good variety of sneakers, but it was too crowded for my taste.

size?, 33-34 Carnaby Street, Soho, London, UK – size.co.uk

In the streets nearby I also discovered this cool store dedicated to Lomo cams.

Lomography, 3, Newburgh Street, Soho, London, UK – www.lomography.com

After some more stores, but I won’t get into it, I decided it was finally time to eat something. I remembered that crazy restaurant located in Soho, so I went there. The food was tasty, the waiters were super friendly and the whole thing was a cool experience, as you order everything by clicking on the table. I hope you’ll understand in my final video.

I also did the photo shooting for my WeSC headphones and the BAPE coin case on my table (go back and check the pics again!) as the menu and images are all projected onto the table. Oh, and Diddy, they also serve Ciroc there.

inamo Restaurant & Bar, 134-136 Wardour Street, Soho, London, UK – www.inamo-restaurant.com

I’ll go to bed now, but I’ll keep you posted. Happy Easter!

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

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Just wanted to post up some of my recent photos that I took with my Lomo LCA camera.
Most of them were taken around Frankfurt am Main, also check out my flickr for more pictures.

peace,
Chrishimself

When I was in Hong Kong last year I went around the city aimlessly just feeling the whole vibe and taking pictures with my Lomo LCA camera, thats when I first discovered the famous “sneaker street”.

A whole street just for sneakers, sneaker shop after sneaker shop. Actually the real street name is Fa Yuen street and some also call it Sportswear Street but I like the term “Sneaker Street” more.

You can also catch some fresh exotic fruits on the local market that is awell located on Fa Yuen Street.

Sneaker Street is located between Boundary Street and Dundas Street in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Check out my flickr account too to see some of my other snapshots from my Lomo photowalks around the globe :).

Chrishimself

Havent done this in a while so I thought today is a random enough day for another random Lomo LCA shot.
So here you go this one was taken last year in Tokyo when I enjoyed a nice cold boss coffe in a can straight out of a vending machine.

Also check my flickr for more :-)

Chrishimself

I recently got my latest LOMO LCA pictures developed and uploaded them onto flickr if you are interested go and check them out please :-).

Chrishimself

flickr.com/chrishimself

Last year I went to the Philippines to study at a filmschool in Cebu for one year, it was perfect since I am half filipino and wanted to see the country my mother is from. I took alot of pictures during my stay in asia and here I want to share a few that I took with a small russian automatic film camera called the Lomo LCA. All these pics were taken on the way to the studio by foot and tricycle (small moped with extra seat on the side).

The Philippines is the biggest christian country in asia this little church was right in front of the place I used to stay, right in the middle of nowhere. I used to see some people holding a mess while walking by even at night sometimes.

Right next to it was this little factory where a few filipinos made hand crafted furniture and art all made out of wood and recycled products. Some of their works looked really interesting at this time they made chairs and some kind of figurine that looked like a mix of a swan and a dog to me.

Here you can actually see one of those tricycles I usually gave them around 10pesos to take me from my place to the studio when I was in a rush and if it was just to hot outside to take the walk. I remember that I was one of the very few white people living in this area so all the people just stared at me,  it felt really uncomfortable.

There was a middle / junior high school on the way to the studio, you could see all the kids in the morning in coming to school with the “Jeepney” the local bus which is some kind of transformed G.I. Jeep leftover from WW2 times but most of the traditional ones were driving in the inner citys and in Manila so they had those Suzuki Multicabs transformed which were a little more modern. If I remember right the first 3-5km or so cost you 6 pesos in Euro thats not even 1 cent! unbelievable. To get out of a Jeepney you had to knock your money on the ceiling haha.

The walls at the school were painted with bible verses and stuff like peace signs.

This is the street to my place, in the back the white little minivan is one of those multicabs but I think this one was the water delivery guy.

Barangay comes from the spanish word “barrio” which means your area or neighborhood.

This is a “Sari Sari Store” you can compare those to your local kiosk, a small store that sells you snacks, drinks and cigarettes mostly owned and operated by a family a bottle of coke costs around 5 peso. Tanduay is the biggest brand of Rum in the Philippines got a little to much of this stuff a few times pretty strong but tastes alright with coke :).

People sitting in a Jeepney.

Finally at the studio, this time its me sitting in front of the camera talking about global warming on a hot ass day, guys had fun shooting a little mockumentary.  I had a fun time in the Philippines, alot of new experiences, met interesting people and I kinda miss it too even though at the end I couldnt wait to go see new horizons.

Chrishimself

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