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Stumble itUPDATE: I’ve posted 2 new shots from Canada Day weekend! Love this camera!!
UPDATE #2: I was just interviewed by the Lomographic Society about the Lomo 360! Check out the interview here! There’s a bunch of other great interviews at this link as well!
There’s days I just love the instant gratification that the Internet provides. I saw this preview of the new Lomo 360 on Gizmodo, and promptly gave the Lomography society my $150 Canadian. Less than a week later, it’s in my hands. Love it!
I have a sweet spot for plastic cameras, and have gone through a number of them over the years, including a classic Lomo LC-A, an Action Sampler, and a few lomo flashes. I have a pretty large collection of ‘lomo style’ apps on my iPhone, since I just love the look of slightly blurred, not totally crisp look that film provides. Digital cameras are great and everything and have come a long way, but there’s something about the tactile and physical nature of film that gives it a certain aura of mystery. I love going to the photo lab, and opening up a box of slides, and going through them one by one, to see if there’s any gems.
When I saw this new Lomo Spinner 360, it was a no brainer. I had to have it! I love a well done panorama as much as the next guy, but they always seem so static and lifeless, since it’s such a laborious process to create them. First you need to set up on a tripod, take a shot, move the camera, take another shot, etc etc etc… Then you have to stich them all together in Photoshop, or try one of the automatic tools, and hope it doesn’t butcher things too badly. There’s no way to take a quick 360 panorama digitally, and capture an action shot. You simply can’t move the camera that fast… But the Lomo Spinner 360 is another story!
The way this camera works, is you load up any 35mm film, pull the ripcord, and the camera head does a 360+ degree revolution in less than a second. The camera is light, portable, and durable, so you can take panoramas in places that were totally unthinkable before. For example, How about taking some shots on a ride at a carnival:
New shots from Canada Day weekend:
This camera totally rules, and I’m having a blast playing around with it. I’m going to take some infrared shots at the lake and the beach over the next 2 weeks. If you want to keep updated with my new shots, you can always see my latest work at http://kertgartner.com or just go directly to my flickr feed at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kgartner/
If you have any comments or questions, just let me know! Thanks! 
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20 Comments
How cool is that?
Wow! Way cool
DO you think one could attach a fisheye to that to take full 360 images?
That’s an interesting idea! I’m going to give that a shot.
I have a question. How do you get your shots developed? Are there services available that will do it for you, or do you have to develop them yourself and then scan them yourself? Thanks!
Hi Flippy,
I just go to the local superstore (or Walmart) and get them to develop the roll as one long strip of film. It costs like $2-$3. I take that film home, and scan it in on my Epson CanoScan 8800F.
360 Lomo Camera
How to scan? What resolution?
Film tested What worked what did not?
B&W Slide Films
Hey Mike!
Here’s a few answers to your questions. There’s all sorts of scanners you can get to scan negatives, but one of the best/cheapest options is the Cannon Canoscan 8800F. You can scan in the negs with the sprockets, which is nice, since there’s a large surface area on the scanner that supports negs.
I found that iso 400 Kodak Gold film works pretty well, and it’s readily available in 5-packs at Walmart for $20 CDN, so it’s a good, cheap alternative. I threw in a roll of fuji iso 100 slide film, and it was really underexposed, but I had it set to the “sun” aperture setting. It may have worked better if I set the aperture to the larger setting. I don’t have any more slide film, so I haven’t had a chance to re-test it. I haven’t tried any B/W just yet, but I’ve got a roll of Infrared loaded for the next time I use it
TTYL!
hi, lomo spinner 360 is so fun to play with…… but the developing and scanning of the film in my country is quite troublesome…..i would like to know how u scan the film including the ‘hole’…. thanks
Hi there, I think I’ve mentioned this a few times already, but all you have to do is buy a flatbed film scanner like the Epson CanoScan 8800F. It’ll scan in the whole negative along with the sprocket holes. The other low tech option is to shoot slide film, and tape it to a window and take a picture of it with your camera
if you hold the the spinner by the camera rather than the grip, will it rotate the film while camera is stationary? also can you get it to rotate more than 360 on one pull, say 720 or more?
Hey Greg,
Yup! If you hold the camera stationary, you get a kind of slit scan effect. It’s hard to describe, but check out this link and it’ll show you wahat that looks like.
http://microsites.lomography.com/spinner-360/techniques As for getting it to do a 720, I don’t think you’ll get it to spin that much. If you pull the rip cord as far as it goes, it probably does close to a 500 or something like that. Check out some of my shots, and you can see it overshoots 360 by a bit almost every time.
Hi Kert!
Amazing!!!
I also love the spinner 360ยบ and I received a gift
So, I just see all of your videos and pics, but and this moment I didn’t find what I’m looking for. How do you do the scan in the CanoScan 8800F? I’m asking because when I do it gives error, like as it does not recognize the negative film.
Do you think the chance to make an explanation?
Thanks a lot! and GOOD SHOTS!!!
Hey Mike,
You might want to try using VueScan if you’re having problems with your scanning software. I use it on my mac and it works great. http://www.hamrick.com/
Hi Kert!
It works!!! Thanks a lot for your information.
Tomorrow I’ll start SHOT with my Spinner
Good year 2011!
Mike
has anyone used it indoors and got decent pics? I have looked online and every pic is outside… i am a pro photographer that does alot of events and think it would be a cool tool to have in my arsenal to use at parties and weddings but I havn’t actually seen any pictures that proove what it look like used inside- like a crowded room etc. Has anyone got any I can see that they can email or upload please? I am reluctant to buy one if its limited to exteriors, I know it says ‘indoors’, i just want to how it copes with interior exposures!
Hey Bill,
The experiments I’ve done with the Lomo 360 indoors have so far been a total fail. I beleive the two aperture settings are something like F8 and F11, and the average shutter speed when it’s spinning is around 1/125th. There’s just not enough light indoors to expose standard film properly. That being said, I just ran two rolls of ISO1600 film through the lomo, and will be picking them up TODAY! If there’s anything good, I’ll scan them and update this post.
Hey Bill, I thought I’d let you know that the two rolls I shot indoors at 1600ISO were totally underexposed. This is basically an outdoor only camera, unless there’s a lot of light inside
hi Kgartner, how you set on canoscan8800f bigger size of negative. i have negs from horizont, but it still put them in normal size frames
thanks for help
Hi there, i’m not sure what you’re asking here. I’m using the VueScan software to scan them in, which might get around some limits of the canon software.
aha i have mp navigtor and i cannot choose bigger frame.