The Queen of all multi-lensed cameras. Four highly light-sensitive and precision Japanese panoramic lenses capture four sequential panoramic shots on a single photo. The patented rip-cord advance ensures that you are ever-ready for action. Normal film, normal processing, no batteries. "Design Boutique" packaging includes a moulded plastic storage box, 35mm film, and 144-page colour book on the sensual pleasure of Supersampling. Now available in pearl or with a wonderfully-smooth rubberised blue coating.
How Does It Work?
- Four highly light-sensitive and highest precision panorama lenses are arranged so compactly and neatly on the camera that they are able to expose four precisely positioned panorama shots in series above and next to one another on a single photograph.
- Pressing the exposure button sets a piece of precision clockwork into motion, activating each of the lenses one after the other over the course of two seconds.
- The result is a whole new kind of endlessly varied serial images, depending on the action and movement you are capturing:
- a steady camera for the precise analysis of each of the tiniest or wildest movements (sports, action, driving, flying, falling, spasms, shoves...)
- a fast or slow moving camera (horizontal, vertical, rotational, shaky...) for the dissolution and bizarre new recombination of otherwise familiar motifs (people, architecture, scenery...). This is where the craziest tricks and SuperSampling discoveries really start to come into their own!
- In terms of photographic technology the SuperSampler is a perfectly normal 35mm camera suitable for any standard 35mm film, which you can then have developed in any normal photo store, supermarket or minilab. The little (highly collapsible) peephole on top is, by the way, a so-called 'fig-leaf finder' - and it's only there for absolute emergencies. In general a viewfinder only distracts the veritable Lomographer from the task of true ActionSampling from the hip (serious Lomographers remove the viewfinder nano-seconds after they have purchased their SuperSampler, and bury it somewhere in their own private museum of the 20th century!). And the SuperSampler is neither even horrifically expensive nor designed for convoluted ageing photo-hunters... It is a thoroughly affordable wonder for tough (Lomographic) action and creativity in everyday situations. And one thing is for sure: even after the 100th roll of film you'll still be able to use it for discovering unexplored SuperSampling terrain and special tricks, new movements, new sequences, new positions, new perspectives - quite simply new Lomographic hipshot experiments on a daily basis! And for those who still don't understand what it is:
The SuperSampler is a magic image box, a clockwork snapshot plaything, an action shiver-and-shake crate, an architecture-deconstruction chamber, a landscape-lacerater, a Lomographic image sausage-maker, an ultra-short film drum, a panorama hurdy-gurdy, a photographic molatov cocktail, a rapid hacking snapshot-shrapnel maker!
The SuperSampler is the first self-developed, self-designed and patented camera to have emerged from the newly founded product development laboratory of the Lomographic Society International in Vienna. Incidentally, it is also the first 100% Austrian camera since the invention of the Josef Petzval patent cardboard travel camera in 1840. And all the engineering of the SuperSampler stems from the firm Vertikal, a team of star mechanics in Vienna. And the complicated manufacturing process is in the hands of one of the most hard-boiled in the branch, the young Chinese Man Ivan Lau and his 2,000 employees in Shenzen near Hong Kong. These stalwart individuals are now going to ensure that the growing worldwide Sampler market is kept supplied with precision work
Note: Currently only available in Blue.
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