Lomo LC-A results

I had this film for over an year inside my camera and it was about time I finished. It was the Fuji Superia 100 ISO and it had been expired for a few years. What I didn't realised though was the fact that the batteries in my camera were dead and because of that, I lost quite a few shots. The Lomo makes the noise as if it's been working but in reality it was firing at the wrong speed. The best thing to do is checking regularly the red lights (the two led ones you see through the viewfinder) whenever you're going to use the camera to avoid this. I remember having a conversation with a friend in the forum about buying only silver oxide batteries instead of alkaline as the later aren't reliable for photography. 

I managed getting a few shots besides the battery problem but they've came out a bit underexposed. 

Ilford Cine Film - Lomo LC-A

I've scanned a few more negatives from the Ilford Cine film I bought some time ago, this time the images were taken using my Lomo LC-A camera as I have previously used this film in my Rolleiflex  (results can be seen here: Expired Ilford).

The film was made in the 60's and there was no much information about ISO so I decided to run a little test and try to find out.

I've magnified the same part of the image in each negative  taken with three different speeds as shown here...

The strangest thing I noticed by doing this test is the fact that as the higher is the ISO the sharper are the images. My colleague Peter pointed out an article from the Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers (SPSE) Handbook: "For the thicker emulsion..., the exposure appears to penetrate more deeply into the emulsion with increasing exposure level. As a result, the more heavily exposed image should not only be more degraded but also be more effected by halation. Most modern thin emulsions show little of this effect".  

This particular film is very thick and the article may explain the reason I got these results, nevertheless I've been enjoying shooting with the film and next time I'll try some in one of my pinhole cameras.

All pictures taken with the Lomo LC-A and processed with Rodinal.

From inside the car - Lomo LC-A

One of the few good things when I'm not driving is that I can sit comfortably on the passenger's seat and enjoy the city view without the worry of crashing in someone else's car...

Since my driving license is expired I had no choice but enjoy a good ride, in my case with a good point and shoot camera in hands all the time.

These pictures were taken the last time I went to Sao Paulo using my Lomo LC-A loaded with an expired Fuji Superia 100 ISO

The film haven't lost the ability to produce excellent colours but I found the negatives a bit more granier than normal, some photoshop adjustments were required.

Lomo LC-A

I had this Fuji Superia 100 ISO loaded in my Lomo for almost two years! The camera travelled with me to so many places I had almost forgotten about some of  the locations on the pictures when I got the film back from the lab!

I like the LC-A's performance in low-light conditions...