Lomography Colorsplash 35MM Camera by Lomography
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Digital camera reviews of Lomography Colorsplash 35MM Camera
Digital camera Review: perfect for poseurs
Summary: 1 Stars
Two quiet revolutions in photography--the Lomo and Diana/Holga--added a new level on how artists view their work. Unfortunately, so many seem to think that by simple buying and using these devices, they will make instant art. Now a whole slew of cheap hunks of plastic sold at inflated prices are flooding the market, feasting upon this followers mentality.
If you really want to experiment with color-flashing, buy color filters (or scavenge for random tinted transparent materials) and experiment on the flash of a decent camera--or if you are into plastic, then get a holga. This process will not only teach you so much more about what processes produce what effects, but you'll actually create something new, you'll be using a creative process. This thing is not a creative tool, it is an unimaginative $3 hunk of plastic being cleverly marketed and sold for an astonishing price that sucks any creative possibilities out of the user.
Digital camera Review: really nice camera, lots of fun
Summary: 5 Stars
The Colorsplash is a really cool little camera. It's definately a specialty camera and isn't meant to take family vacation photos, but adds some really neat dimensions to artistic lomo photos. It's easy to use, well designed, and the packaging is cool.Digital camera Review: splish splash!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is my third lomo camera and surely not my last.I liked the retro appeal of it and when is color ever a bad thing,right?it comes with its own camera and batteries and also some color filter,though some of the filters are the same just a shade different.The only things i don't like about this camera is that you can only have 4 colors on the color wheel,2 of which you can't change and also if you want a filter over the lens itself,then you have to tape it on which is kind of ghetto.The film advancer wheel is also annoying because it's hard to turn and hurts your finger.Overall the pictures come out really good but i prefer using it at night because of the effects you can create from surrounding lights.I recommend buying this camera as long as you can handle it's few annoying quirks.Digital camera Review: take the colorsplash with a pinch of salt.
Summary: 2 Stars
Not related to the performance of the camera - mine arrived missing the lid - and it looked like it had previously been opened - however I bought it "new" of amazon. I was nonetheless excited and it looked like nothing (minus the lid) was missing so I set it up and got to shooting.
I can't say if the film was tricky or not to load. Reason being is that I don't have much experience loading film so I can't make an accurate comparison.
Pros: The three rolls I churned out right away came out really neat and fun. So it accomplishes what it claims, it takes good photos, I can't deny that.
Cons: The colorwheel design. In my opinion it was as though the designers spent most of their design time and budget on the wheel idea and then rushed through everything else, resulting in a bad overall design. What the websites related to the colorsplash sheepishly WONT tell you is that not only do you NOT have 4 slots with which to load color gels, you only have two, with the two others permanent (a blue and yellow). Right away I felt like the online descriptions were very misleading regarding this and it is extremely limiting. It would be one thing if the gels were easily interchanged but they are not, requiring tweezers or some equivalent (not included, but reccomended in the manual), not feasible if you are out, especially at night. Plus if you wanted to have a default unfiltered flash, it means you would only get one color option in addition to the default blue and yellow - not that great in my opinion. I think that as camera that is billed as a simple camera with its main selling point being an outstanding flash device it fails horribly. If you don't really require the variety that the colorsplash falsely advertises, you should be fine.
In addition to that, my camera broke withing the first 24 hours. The plastic part of the camera that the strap is connected to broke off, very easilly, considering I barely had the camera - but that could have been a unique defect, or maybe missing the lid it moved around in shipping cracking that part of the plastic - I will probably never know. Although the mechanism was unaffected (as far as I knew) I wasn't comfortable with any part of it breaking off in under 24 hours and returned the camera.
Digital camera Review: very cooooool.
Summary: 4 Stars
cool camera but i don't see why it has to be so expensive. You're pretty much paying for the color filters and a funky shaped camera. ah lomo, you're so greedy.