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Shoot from the Hip - The World's Coolest Camera

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Shoot from the Hip - the World's Coolest Camera

19/03/2006

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Shoot from the Hip - The World's Coolest Camera

Why in the digital age, does the world still love a Soviet Union relic camera?

Lucy Ash discovers how in the digital age, the world still loves a Soviet Union relic - the low-spec Lomo Camera. From 2006.

The most sought-after camera in this digital age is not a sleek gadget in a silver case but a 20-year-old relic from behind the Iron Curtain: the Lomo. 

Lucy Ash talks to "Lomographers" to find out why they are devoted to this old, low-spec 35mm camera,.

She visits the Moscow factory making a brand-new old-fashioned model.

Producer: Lucy Ash 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006.

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