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I got my first 3 rolls of film developed from my lomo cameras and was fairly impressed with the results. I think I had about a 50% success rate of photos tuning out how I intended. Some turned out but were very underexposed and some didn’t work out at all. Oh well, I guess that’s what practice is for!

Here are some of my favourites:

Although double exposed this one turned out pretty cool. The photo is well exposed and quite sharp. I had quite good success with the black and white film, now I want to get as good with the colour film so I can get some of that high contrast vivid colors action. This was taken with white flash indoors, 400 asa black and white film.

Not usual for me to like a photo of myself but I think this one is pretty cool. Colour film + red flash.

Pity there’s a light leak on the right edge of this photo (this leak seems to recur quite frequently through my first roll so maybe a loaded the film wrong. Used the fisheye lens for this one and I like what I see!

Colours in this one are nice. Not such sharp focus so hopefully I can work on that with my next few rolls.

My conclusions…

The Holga gave a lot better results than the Diana+ so I think I need a bit more work with that one. The Black and white film gave some nice results and seems to be a bit more forgiving than the colour film. I like the effects achieved with the colour flash on the holga and definitely want to do more with the fisheye lens - it’s pretty special.

 

If anyone’s interested I used Spectrum Imaging for development. I’d highly recommend them, the service was really good and extremely fast (posted on Saturday, on my doormat on Tuesday). They’re the cheapest I’ve found - with processing, printing (4×4 prints) and scanning to CD for £6 per film. I’ll definitely use them again but might hold back on the printing and selectively choose which ones I want printed from the CD and send them back separately for that as my photos seem to be a bit hit and miss at the moment!