Product Description

Hotstepping in glossy white, the Colorsplash camera will re-cast your world in a gorgeous riot of color. Its patented colorwheel system puts several tinted flash filters at your fingertips for instant selection; with an additional 9 filters included to exchange. Long exposure capability creates dreamy streaked backgrounds behind crisp, color-flashed foregrounds.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3016 in Camera & Photo
• Brand: Lomography
• Model: Colorsplash
• Dimensions: 4.00" h x 6.50" w x 8.00" l, 1.75 pounds

Features

• Re-cast your world in a gorgeous riot of color
• Patented colorwheel system puts several tinted flash filters at your finger tips for instant selection
• Long exposure capability creates dreamy streaked backgrounds behind crisp, color-flashed foregrounds
• Package includes camera, battery, film, poster, extra color filters, and "skin" bag
• Normal 35mm film, normal processing

From the Manufacturer
From the Manufacturer With the compact Colorsplash in your hands, you're ready and armed to repaint your whole environment. Everything that you see around you is subject to manipulation and capture through its sharp little lens. Rotate the integrated flash Color Wheel and choose from a selection of colored flash lights to toss upon your subject. The elements of exposure time, flash color, subject color, exterior light, and the manic curiosity of your lomographic eye come together to yield an endless number of potential techniques and outcomes. Remember, "colorsplash" is a philosophy. This is merely your tool to get there.

Colorsplashing?
Colorsplash is now the next step in the continuing development of the Lomographic battery of instruments. In the Colorsplash world you can manipulate the colours on your Lomographs: With a colored flash by day or at night, by playing on the colored artificial lighting at night, by varying the type of 35mm film you use . If you are holding the Colorsplash Camera and/or the Colorsplash Flash in your hand, then you're holding precisely the right tool to really get down to some serious experimentation with colors.

From the beginning, the Colorsplash needed to deliver beautiful form in addition to function - a handsome conversation piece that feels just as comfortable under the adoring eyes of design-vultures as it does in the sweaty hands of a hard-working hyperactive lomographer. Our resultant Colorsplash camera is the product of these intense brainstorming, design, and caffeine-charged sessions. Fully conceived and developed by the hardcore Lomographers of our Lomographic Society, it will do for you what it has done for us: whet your creative appetite, open your photographic world, and compel you to see your environment in a brand-new spectrum of 12 tiny color gels.

Color Wheel
Alongside a glossy plastic body lies the color-bursting electric soul of Colorsplash - the mechanical Color Wheel flash. A flick of the wrist is all that's required to choose between one of three different color filters or a standard white flash. When you're ready for a switch, two of the interchangeable filters can be replaced with one of the 9 additional filters that you will receive with the Flash. Snap away, and take photo 1 in blue, photo 2 in red, photo 3 with no color, and so on.

Exposure
Colorsplash has two exposure controls: Long Exposure and Instant Exposure. A flick of the handy little switch alternates between these two modes. During Long Exposure, the shutter will stay open for as long as you depress the release button. The Color Wheel flash is synched for the end of your exposure, meaning that when you release the button, the flash will fire a split-second before the shutter closes. This allows for the greatest of Colorsplash effects - sharp, colored, flashed foregrounds set against dreamy, natural, blurry backgrounds. Instant Exposure mode both releases the shutter and fires the flash when you press the button; producing nearly monochromatic crazy-contrast shots or fairly normal white-light flash shots.

Skin
A modular three-piece formal suit for the Colorsplash. Crafted in stretchy synthetic fabric, the "skin bag" keeps your camera's most essential parts free from dust and very stylishly dressed. During transport, the top "skin" protects the lens and the flash "skin" covers the entire flash assembly. When duty calls, merely rotate the top "skin" down and stow away the flash "skin" on the included wrist strap. You're ready to shoot.

Design
Coated in high-gloss molded white plastic, the Colorsplash itself attracts almost as much attention as the gorgeous photos it spits out. One half science fiction-futuristic, and one half 1960's retro-mod, its shiny coating and radical shape are pure eye candy to the hungry stares of onlookers and style-freaks.

Customer Reviews

Color Your World
The Color Splash is like photographic rock and roll. I love the long-exposure with colored-flash style - it's really cool. You end up with a bright, colored subject against a glowing background. If you wave the camera around with the shutter open, you can place these crazy streaks of light behind your subject as well. There's no other camera that can do this, and its white body is dead sexy.

As another reviewer mentioned, a tripod thread would be nice, (Lomo, can you hear me??) but I can live without it for the time being. Be sure to use 400 or 800 speed film - that way you'll maximize your flash range. Also, get close when you use the purple or red filters, they block a lot of light and your shot can be really underexposed if you're too far away.

Pleasantly Surprised
I bought this camera with some cash I got for Christmas, because I wanted a small fun 35mm to carry around, but I didnt want a Holga and the Horizon Kompakt or Perfekts were too expensive. My other cameras are high end professionals (Nikon F1, Mamyia C33 and Mamyia RB), and never really got around to experimenting with cross processing and color gels, so I thought this camera would be appropriate for lo fi fun.

After reading the reviews on here, it seemed like most complained about the cheapness of the camera, found it inoperable upon delivery, broke parts, etc. Folks, Im not sure what you were expecting, or know the other types of cameras that Lomo produces, but they are CHEAP TOY CAMERAS. They are not meant to be high quality photo wonders. They are meant to be simple, have light leaks, take weird, interesting photos and thats it.

I was almost expecting a total piece of crap after reading the other reviews, but i was more than happy with the quality of this little camera. When held, it feels solid. The little winder does feel a bit cheap, but this is to be expected. The color gels are easy to change out (I can use my stubby fingernail to get the door off), but dont expect to be able to do it on the fly. It does take a small amount of tinkering.

It came in a really unique packaging system that can be kept to store the camera and its documentation over and over, and is great if you travel alot or are moving. The unique 3 piece protective cover for the camera is an ugly teal and forest green concoction, but it fits the camera well and black vinyl spray paint from the auto parts store will fix that easily (the stuff lasts a lifetime). Im excited to see how the pictures turn out.

Expect a fun to use and fun to look at camera to take with you on your daily excursions, and then upload them to the lomography.com website to share!

take the colorsplash with a pinch of salt.
Not related to the performance of the camera - mine arrived missing the lid - and it looked like it had previously been opened - however I bought it "new" of amazon. I was nonetheless excited and it looked like nothing (minus the lid) was missing so I set it up and got to shooting.

I can't say if the film was tricky or not to load. Reason being is that I don't have much experience loading film so I can't make an accurate comparison.

Pros: The three rolls I churned out right away came out really neat and fun. So it accomplishes what it claims, it takes good photos, I can't deny that.

Cons: The colorwheel design. In my opinion it was as though the designers spent most of their design time and budget on the wheel idea and then rushed through everything else, resulting in a bad overall design. What the websites related to the colorsplash sheepishly WONT tell you is that not only do you NOT have 4 slots with which to load color gels, you only have two, with the two others permanent (a blue and yellow). Right away I felt like the online descriptions were very misleading regarding this and it is extremely limiting. It would be one thing if the gels were easily interchanged but they are not, requiring tweezers or some equivalent (not included, but reccomended in the manual), not feasible if you are out, especially at night. Plus if you wanted to have a default unfiltered flash, it means you would only get one color option in addition to the default blue and yellow - not that great in my opinion. I think that as camera that is billed as a simple camera with its main selling point being an outstanding flash device it fails horribly. If you don't really require the variety that the colorsplash falsely advertises, you should be fine.

In addition to that, my camera broke withing the first 24 hours. The plastic part of the camera that the strap is connected to broke off, very easilly, considering I barely had the camera - but that could have been a unique defect, or maybe missing the lid it moved around in shipping cracking that part of the plastic - I will probably never know. Although the mechanism was unaffected (as far as I knew) I wasn't comfortable with any part of it breaking off in under 24 hours and returned the camera.