New iPhone Photo App: Morelomo
Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 1:53PM | Glyn Evans 
Description from the AppStore: What is LOMO? Lomography is a commercial trademark of Lomographische AG, Austria for products and services related to photography. The 35 mm LOMO LC-A camera employed an unusual lens which produced large amounts of distortion at the edges of the image whilst keeping the centre sharp.
Lomography emphasizes casual, snapshot photography. Accidents such as over-saturated colors, lens artifacts, and exposure defects are rehabilitated to produce swirly, abstract effects - a trait emphasized by practitioners. Others use the technique to document everyday life, because the small camera size and ability to shoot in low light encourages candid photography, photo reportage and photo vérité.
The following are the company's 10 Rules of Lomography:
- Take your LOMO everywhere you go.
- Use it anytime - day or night.
- Lomography is not an interference in your life, but a part of it.
- Shoot from the hip.
- Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible.
- Don't think.
- Be fast.
- You don't have to know beforehand what you've captured on film.
- You don't have to know afterwards, either.
- Don't worry about the rules.
AppStore Link: Morelomo - Price FREE
Editors comments: Although this app is free, I found the results inconsistent as my sample shots show. I loaded the same photo in to Morelomo, and each and every time got a different result. Overall I was disappointed with this app and its results were not pleasing to me.
Glyn Evans
Thanks to Brandon Lee who has pointed out that this apps description has recently changed (I am late posting about this app) and now states that having a different result each time is central to the idea, as one might expect from a lomo-style.
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Reader Comments (5)
The full description of the app (it may have been changed since you saw it), states that having a different result each time is central to the idea, as one might expect from a lomo-style (read: unpredictable) app. Takayuki Fukatsu's popular ToyCamera app does the same thing, albeit not too elegantly.
what app with the lomo filter would you suggest?
After reading the review, i decided to give the apps a try (since it is a free apps, so why not?).
Personally, I like the outcomes of the photos generated by the apps. Like what was said, each time, the apps will produce a different effect each time the picture is taken.
I tried this app and all I can say, is that the app is quite good.
i like the effect but the output resolution is only 1024x768 pixels.
So, maybe with an update we could get full res ;)
I use this app every now and then. I like running photos through it just to see the results. It was free so why not have it? hehe It's a fun little app