Build your own SLR for Ł30 • Non-Gaming • Photography • Eurogamer.net

Deleted user 13 June 2013 11:26:04

Lomogrpahy's new product that they've been hinting at for a while has been revealed, and it's a DIY SLR kit. Pretty cool.

http://shop.lomography.com/gb/konstruktor

BillMurray 13 Jun 2013 11:47:38 9,736 posts
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Surprisingly cheap for a Lomo product.

Tomo 13 Jun 2013 12:25:08 19,565 posts
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Wow, that's pretty neat. Like an Airfix camera. Not sure I'd use it, but I can't help wanting one...

S.J.Rogers 13 Jun 2013 12:57:11 3,593 posts
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It's a Hipsters wet dream..!

Ziz0u 13 Jun 2013 12:58:02 11,006 posts
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S.J.Rogers wrote:
It's a Hipsters wet dream..!

"Where'd you get camera?"

"Built it, like omg duh"

S.J.Rogers 13 Jun 2013 12:59:18 3,593 posts
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GuiltySpark 13 Jun 2013 13:14:21 6,790 posts
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Decent present for Father's Day you reckon?

Deleted user 13 June 2013 13:58:36

It's definitely a nice present for a photographer, rather than something you'd buy yourself. Good price point as well.

I wonder if the DIY nature of it makes it susceptible to light leaks and such. Quite like the idea of something with the flexibility of an SLR, but with the randomness of a Holga or something.

Deleted user 13 June 2013 14:05:53

LeoliansBro wrote:
Would you trust your lenses with something so flimsy?

I don't think anyone's going to stick an L lens on it, but you could have some fun with some old vintage lenses and stuff. You can get old duffed up lenses for next to nothing, and they'll probably look better anyway, as this is more about taking photos with character than ultra-sharp milky bokkeh etc.

thedaveeyres 13 Jun 2013 14:08:11 13,925 posts
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This is awesome. Link sent to wifey, father's day sorted.

Deleted user 13 June 2013 14:09:41

Maybe they'll do a range of DIY lenses!

Deleted user 13 June 2013 14:13:59

It comes with a 50mm lens which would be totally ideal anyway, so you don't even need to worry about buying lenses.

ram 13 Jun 2013 14:48:27 3,598 posts
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Ł30 for the SLR
Ł15-Ł25 every time you develop a film :/

Deleted user 13 June 2013 14:52:49

Mmm, yeah.

Do ASDA still do it? They were super cheap at one point. Ł2 a film or something.

Deleted user 13 June 2013 14:59:11

Sounds complicated to me.

BillMurray 13 Jun 2013 15:31:15 9,736 posts
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@kalel My local Asda still definitely develop. Developing film is certainly not 15-25 quid every time. Plenty of places do cheap mailorder processing still aswell.

Deleted user 13 June 2013 16:48:38

I usually get a high-res CD whenever I get a film developed which does tend to push the price up towards Ł15 or so, but yeah, that was a bit of an overstatement.

Deleted user 13 June 2013 16:59:53

LeoliansBro wrote:

kalel wrote:
Sounds complicated to me.
For why? Same structure, just an electronic sensor in the place of the film.

(Note: I know nothing about how digital cameras work.)

Sensors are very delicate things for one. And you musn't get dust on them, so them being part of a DIY kit makes it go from a fun airfix rough and ready affair, to a delicate white glove wearing watch-making type affair.

Also there's batteries to deal with. Would AAs power a DSLR? Also it would be the world's most basic DSLR - you'd have no auto-metering or auto-focus or any the other main benefits of one (beyond it having digital images).

It's probably not totally impossible but it feels like it would be quite a different thing to this. The whole point of this is that it's so simple.