Digital Lomo Camera? Yashica EZ F521

There's a new camera released in Japan. At a glance, it looks like a digital lomo camera... but is it?

Here's a brief translation of the actual article.

Combining the technologies of both film and digital camera, it is equipped with a view finder and LCD screen. This 5.04 mega pixel digital camera revives the dearly missed trademark of film cameras- turning (literally) of the lens from standard shooting mode to macro shooting mode.

In all, it has 4 types of shooting mode for still pictures:

• normal
• flash
• macro
• continuous

You can also apply effects to your pictures- while taking or during playback.
The 7 colour modes you can use while taking pictures:

• normal
• sepia
• black and white
• negative
• bluish tint
• reddish tint
• greenish tint

For post process, you can choose from 12 colour modes (including the 7 above). You can mix and match these 12 colour modes to create your ideal picture.

In summary:

• 5.04mega pixel
• 32MB memory
• Uses SD card
• images are saved as JPEG Exif 2.1
• videos are saved as avi
• 4X Zoom
• ISO- auto
• White balance (normal, sunny, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent)
• （W）110mm×（H）66mm （D）48mm
• 125g (without batteries)

Mmm... it's not exactly the lomo-digital camera that lomo photography enthusiasts are looking for, but I guess it's a great step forward already. With Japanese technology, the dream of owning a lomo-digital camera shouldn't be far-off. Meanwhile, I am quite contented with Hipstamatic iPhone application for lomo-pseudo pictures :)