- Offers 120-degree panoramic shots with perfect clarity
- Multicoated Arsat 28/2.8 glass lens for eye-popping color and great contrast
- Swing-lens technology sets the lens into motion once you touch the shutter
- Fixed f8 aperture offers an excellent depth of field
- Battery-free operation
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This cream-colored knockout is designed for one sole purpose: dead-easy and endless panoramic snapshots! With a fixed aperture and focus, all you have to do is aim, point, and shoot. A fast setting for day and slow setting for night afford you 24-hour and indoor/outdoor access to the overwhelming joy of panoramic pleasure.
Multicoated Arsat 28/2.8 Glass Lens
This crispy glass heart of the horizon is just as lovely as it sounds: a multi-element masterpiece that yields eye-popping color, jaw-dropping contrast, and slamming sharpness all around.
Dead-Easy Double Exposures
Like our good friend the Holga, the Kompakt's advance and shutter are uncoupled--meaning that one can be done without the other. So, you can feel free to cock and fire the shutter as many times as you like--without advancing the film one millimeter! That means double, triple, quadruple, and more exposures on the same frame. Huzzah! And for the really wild at heart, you can take your chances and advance partial frames to have unpredictable overlapping double-exposures working throughout your entire film.
Fixed f8 Aperture
Every shot that you take has f8 automatically dialed in. Not only does this yield excellent depth of field (not too short and not too long), but it's also the optimum diaphragm setting for sharpness and clarity from that little MC OF-28P gem of a lens.
Features
If the Horizon's 60 years look like ancient history to you young'uns, then I have some more news for you--panoramic photography as an art has been around for over 150 years. The panorama aficionados around the world owe a collective Danke to Austria's own Joseph Puchberger, who patented a hand-cranked panoramic camera consisting of successive Daguerreotype plates. The resulting image yielded an amazing 120 degrees of vision. Taken at its most basic functions, not a whole lot has changed in panoramic photography since Herr Puchberger's days. It goes to show--the best ideas can truly stand the test of time.
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This crispy glass heart of the horizon is just as lovely as it sounds: a multi-element masterpiece that yields eye-popping color, jaw-dropping contrast, and slamming sharpness all around.
Swing-Lens Technology
Cocking the Horizon's shutter charges its clockwork mechanics, and touching the shutter release sets the lens into motion. As the lens swings from side to side, a narrow vertical slit between the lens and film rotates along with it--thereby progressively exposing the film as the lens moves. The film plane is curved, thereby keeping the film tight and maintaining a uniform distance from the lens.
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Like our good friend the Holga, the Kompakt's advance and shutter are uncoupled--meaning that one can be done without the other. So, you can feel free to cock and fire the shutter as many times as you like--without advancing the film one millimeter! That means double, triple, quadruple, and more exposures on the same frame. Huzzah! And for the really wild at heart, you can take your chances and advance partial frames to have unpredictable overlapping double-exposures working throughout your entire film.
Day and Night Shutter Settings
For ease of use, the Kompakt offers just two settings to alternate with your itchy trigger finger. The day setting shoots at 1/60 second and works in full sunlight to partial shade. The night setting gives you 1/2 second--enough to make a softly lit street scene absolutely glow with color and shine.
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Every shot that you take has f8 automatically dialed in. Not only does this yield excellent depth of field (not too short and not too long), but it's also the optimum diaphragm setting for sharpness and clarity from that little MC OF-28P gem of a lens.
Battery-Free Operation
Everything that your horizon does, from the shutter firing to that little lens moving left to right, is powered by a classic clockwork motor. If you and a buddy trek to Outer Mongolia, and his megapixel machine kicks the bucket for lack of power, then you'll be able to fill the empty slots of his travel album with your unending Horizon snaps!
Uses All Varieties of 35mm Film
That's right--all the 35mm color negative, black and white, slide, infrared, ultraviolet, and film you we haven't heard of can be loaded into your Horizon's greedy little gullet.
Two-Year Limited Warranty
The Lomographic Society International guarantees your Horizon to be free of manufacturer defects for two full years after purchase. This does not include misuse, abuse, or dropping your camera into the Ganges.
What's in the Box
Horizon Kompakt camera, faux leather carrying case, Horizon book (132 pages), original Russian packaging box, Horizon poster, and carrying belt.
Product Description
Horizon Kompakt: This cameras purpose is dead-easy panoramic snapshots! Its MC Arsat swing-lens sweeps across and sees a full 120 degrees of vision. Each shot yields a 58mm long negative ¿ nearly the width of two standard frames! Fixed aperture and focus means that all you have to do is point, and shoot! Day and Night shutter settings afford you full 24-hour and indoor/outdoor access. Package includes camera, faux-leather case, & Horizon panoramic book. Fixed aperture, f/8; 2 shutter speeds: 1/60, ½; 28/2.8 Multi-coated glass Russian lens.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
real panoramic shots,
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This review is from: Lomography Horizon Kompakt Panoramic Camera (Electronics)
i have the horizon 202 and the shots are really quite impressive. as opposed to "panoramic" shots from other cameras that just cut off the tops and bottoms of the frame, this camera really pulls in 120 degree wide shots. wonderful for scenery and vistas.
you need to find a place that can develop the film. it uses regular 35mm, but each shot is about a frame and a half wide. enlagements look great--the details are sharp. no stitching of images--real panoramic shots right out of the camera.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Love it!,
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I love my lomo Horizon camera and have taken it on several vacations. It's contruction is very rugged and it came with a pretty cool pack which has extra areas to keep a few rolls of 35mm film. You can get the film developed anywhere but you'd probably have to either scan it yourself OR have them burn the images to CD. Also remind the lab to NOT CUT the film because otherwise you won't be viewing your panoramics. The images are quite beautiful, sharp and crisp. You can also be creative with it at night using the longer exposure setting. If you're into lomography this is one camera to own, or if you simply enjoy shooting film in panoramic mode.
one of my favorite all time cameras.
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