What does lemo mean?

The word Lemo is an old-fashioned camera that was born in the former Soviet Union in the 1950s. Lemo camera, originally used in Soviet spy department, is small in size and simple in operation. It can shoot day and night without flash. Because the camera is particularly sensitive to red, blue and yellow, the photos developed with positive films are extremely bright in color.

199 1 Two students from Vienna, Austria, found an old Lomo camera while on vacation in the Czech Republic, and were pleasantly surprised by the effect of developing the photos: bright colors and hazy scenes. Subsequently, Lomo began to become the new favorite of fashion. 1992, the first Lomo organization Lomographic Society was established in Vienna. 1997, the first Lomo world congress was held in Madrid, Spain. An exhibition wall of108m displayed 15000 photos, which shocked the European photography community at that time. Since then, the Lomo wave has swept the world.

Because of the Lomo camera itself, the photos taken by Lomo camera are usually very bright, and the characteristics of Lomo photography are also derived from this. Nowadays, the number of Lomo cameras has increased from the initial one to more than twenty models, and most of them have evolved and expanded according to the characteristics of the original models. For example, some filters with 9 different colors can deliberately highlight the color effect of photos; Others strengthen the vignetting and light leakage during shooting; There are also so-called "four-eye" cameras and "eight-eye" cameras, which can take four or eight frames of photos with one negative, making the photographed items dynamic.

Different from earlier, Lomo has now been understood by Lomo people as a shooting attitude: regardless of aperture and focus, regardless of composition and angle, choose the subject at will and press the shutter at will.

The effect of photos taken with this attitude can be imagined. According to the traditional photography standards, most of these photos are failures: incomplete characters, too strong light contrast, unclear scenes and so on. It seems that photographers are crazy. In this regard, photographers do not agree, they believe that only in this way, is the performance of true feelings.