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LOMO Negative 400
Lomography Color Negative 400 is a versatile ISO 400 C-41 color negative film with vivid, saturated colors, believed to be a Kodak Alaris-manufactured emulsion, available in 35mm and 120 formats.
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The Lomography ActionSampler Flash (2003) is a variant of the original ActionSampler (1999), retaining the core quad-lens sequential design while adding a built-in flash unit that fires synchronously with each of the four lenses. The result is a camera capable of capturing four-panel motion sequences in indoor, evening, and low-light conditions that would render the original flashless ActionSampler unusable.
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C41
Lomography Color Negative 400 is a versatile ISO 400 C-41 color negative film with vivid, saturated colors, believed to be a Kodak Alaris-manufactured emulsion, available in 35mm and 120 formats.
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Lomography Color Negative 800 is a high-speed ISO 800 C-41 color negative film widely suspected to be a Kodak-manufactured emulsion, delivering vibrant colors and adequate grain for challenging lighting conditions.
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The ActionSampler Flash brings the quad-lens sequential 35mm action strip indoors — a built-in flash fires with each of the four lenses in sequence, illuminating fast motion in low light.
| Field | Value |
|---|
| Format | 35mm; 4 sub-frames per standard frame (2x2 grid) |
| Mount | Fixed (4x non-interchangeable lenses) |
| Year | |
| Lenses | 4x fixed plastic lenses, ~26mm each |
| Shutter | Sequential, ~0.1s intervals between lenses |
| Sequence span | ~0.4s total |
| Flash | Built-in (fires with each lens) |
| Flash range | ~1-3 m at ISO 400 |
| Meter | None |
| Focus | Fixed (hyperfocal) |
| Battery | 2x AA (for flash) |
| Recommended film | ISO 200-400 |
Lomography introduced the ActionSampler in 1999 as one of its first purpose-built multi-lens cameras beyond the original LC-A. The original design was strictly a daylight instrument: no flash, no battery, fixed shutter speed of approximately 1/100s. In outdoor bright light on ISO 200-400 film it produced correctly exposed four-panel sequences; indoors or at night it was functionally useless.
The ActionSampler Flash, introduced around 2003, was Lomography's response to the obvious limitation. By integrating a flash unit firing in synchrony with each of the four sequential lenses, the camera became viable for the party, club, and indoor event photography that made up a significant portion of Lomography's market in the mid-2000s. The quad-sequence format proved particularly effective for capturing party-goers dancing, jumping, or interacting - generating a contact-sheet-style narrative within a single frame that became a recognizable aesthetic in Lomographic documentary photography of that era.
The ActionSampler Flash was sold concurrently with the flashless original through Lomography's catalog. Both cameras remained nominally available for a number of years, though production and stocking has been inconsistent.
The flash-equipped ActionSampler represents the practical completion of the multi-lens sequential concept. The original ActionSampler's restriction to daylight was a significant creative limitation; the Flash variant removed it, enabling the camera's distinctive temporal-sequence aesthetic to operate across the full range of photographic conditions. Indoor portraiture, party photography, performance documentation in dark theatres, and nighttime street scenes all became viable ActionSampler subjects.
The camera also demonstrated Lomography's pattern of iterating camera concepts with flash variants - the same approach applied to the Supersampler Flash and, in different form, other Lomographic cameras - acknowledging that the toy-camera aesthetic had a natural home in low-light social photography as much as in sunny outdoor experimentation.
Four fixed plastic lenses in a 2x2 grid; none interchangeable. Built-in flash fires sequentially with each lens. No hot shoe for external flash. No filter threads on plastic lenses. Camera accepts 35mm DX-coded cassettes via standard loading door.
Kodak Gold 200 is a daylight-balanced C-41 color negative film with warm color, moderate grain, and a classic consumer-film look.
C41
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
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Kodak Tri-X 400 is a classic black-and-white film known for strong tonality, visible grain, and documentary character.
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