The camera was and awful lot of fun to shoot with. I used the camera to record historical things within my family and een made a mini movie with my sister. However, the shutter spring broke and when I opened it up, I couldn't seem to repair it. I am pretty disappointed with howthin and cheaply made the spring was but I will get that simple problem fixed. Just sad...

I wanted to give a good, qualified review of the Lomokino, so I waited to write this until I had loaded, shot, digitized, edited, and posted a movie from this camera. The entire process can be tedious, but the results are very unique. The camera is a lot of fun to shoot with too, but not without a few difficulties.First, the good:Finish: For a toy camera, Lomography put a lot of polish on the fit and finish. It is encased in a sort of faux leather, which actually lends the camera a pretty good aesthetic. It's small (about the size of a large orange), and although it feels like it would not withstand a beating, it did feel durable enough to use without worrying about breaking it.Image Quality: The image quality is what makes this camera truly unique. It shoots in a super-wide aspect ratio and uses a plastic lens, meaning that each frame you shoot has 25% area volume of a standard 35mm frame and its lens is far from sharp on the edges and corners. However, this is all part of the charm, and the look is uniquely Lomo. If you've ever shot through a Holga or Lomo camera, it's pretty much of that quality (although most of what gives any shot a "Lomo" aesthetic is the film, let's be honest).The Neutral:Film Loading: I couldn't call this one bad because each camera loads a little bit different. The loading mechanism is counter-intuitive, using a wrap-around method to position the emulsion side of the film behind the lens. What makes this difficult is that, unlike most cameras, the natural curl of the film must be overcome to get the film to load correctly. I'm sure Lomo did this to keep the size of the camera down, but it takes a time or two to master.Editing: This is what I really wanted to post about this camera. Not too many reviews fill in the details on how to digitize and edit your shots into a movie. Mostly, this topic is just glossed over, leaving you to just guess about how to do it. I'll share my technique.First, I use color-negative film, which if you're planning on using the kinoscope would not be a good idea, since all you'd see is a color negative. Once the film is shot and processed, I take the negative and digitize each frame using a Wolverine F2D Super film scanner. I line up each frame to the edge of the scanning area and digitize the shot. That process is repeated for every single frame.Once I have the shots digitized, I then need to trim off the excess so each picture is the same size. Since the digitization process yields the same size file, I can automate the crop process for each frame using Photoshop. This will make the crop for each image the exact same size. Once that is done, I grab all of the cropped images, rotate them 90 degrees, then drop them into a video editor. I usually give each frame about 6 frames' worth of time, which makes the motion fluid enough to watch without being overly choppy. Finally, I drop in a black bar matte of 3:1 aspect ratio to eliminate the jerky change in aspect ratio you see a lot with Lomokino films on the internet. I do this because, no matter what you shoot with, if your aspect ratio changes in your film (and you don't mean for it to), it's going to make what you shot look like garbage.Finally, I drop in some title cards and music and the process is done.The Bad:The Crank: I don't have high hopes for the crank. It seems awfully frail.That's pretty much it for this camera. If you can adapt to the neutral points, live with the bad ones, and enjoy the good ones, you'll get along famously with this camera. It is a lot of fun to shoot and the end result of the process is unlike anything I've shot with, but be warned it doesn't come easy and it requires a good attention to detail.

I bought this camera and shot one roll of film with it before I sold it on ebay. It could be fun if you have the time and patience to edit all the frames and turn it into a video, but I found it pretty boring, and low quality.

It work fine for the first few hours. But then it broke and the shutter won’t turn anymore, so we couldn’t shoot. It just lasted a day and a half.

perfect, thank you

Love it!