Brand New Lomo Goes Super-Wide

Brand New Lomo Goes Super-Wide

To most of us, Lomo is the camera brand that inspired a gazillion digital knock-offs, apps that mash and mix your cellphone photos into something that would have been rejected by every picture editor in the days of film. Today, Lomo is ready to remind us

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/05/brand-new-lomo-goes-super-wide/

The new camera looks a lot like the LC-A, but comes with some extras. First is the new lens, which puts the “wide” in the name. It’s a super wideangle 17mm lens, vs the LC-A’s already wide 32mm. To get an idea of how wide this is, once a lens gets to 16mm it is usually a fisheye.