The Lomography La Sardina and Flash - El Capitan features an attractive design that comprises of a bold and red plastic body with bright yellow typography. This camera is designed with a built-in 22 mm wide-angle plastic lens that gives a broad perspective, and a view angle of 89° that gives the depth of field to the images. The fixed f/8 aperture makes it compatible with most shooting applications. The camera offers two-stage focusing option between 2-3.3' / 0.6-1 m and from 3.3' / 1 m to infinity. The two exposure settings is incorporated in this camera to suit various lighting conditions and an MX mode to add multiple exposures on the same frame. The La Sardina from Lomography uses a 35 mm film to capture images and a film cartridge window that lets the photographer view the film used in the camera. The camera can be attached to the tripod with the 1/4-inch tripod socket to capture long exposure shots. This camera includes a Fritz the Blitz flash with color flash output.
Optics and Focus
The Sardina camera has a 22 mm wide-angle plastic lens with an 89° angle of view to add depth to the images and give it a wide angle perspective. The camera boasts a fixed aperture of f/8 and two-stage focusing options that give the camera the ability to focus between 2-3.3' / 0.6-1 m and from 3.3' / 1 m to infinity. This Lomography camera boasts two-stage exposure settings such as the N (1/100th sec.) or B (bulb to control the exposure that suits the location. The MX mode is incorporated in this camera that allows the photographer to use unlimited exposure on the same frame.
Sensor and Screen
The Lomography La Sardina and Flash - El Capitan camera incorporates the built-in inverse Galilean optical viewfinder to adjust the elements in the frame and take a long exposure. The small cartridge window shows the type of film used in the toy camera.
Image and Video
For best quality images the Sardina camera uses a standard 35 mm film roll. It has an auto film counter with auto film stopping that helps to keep proper spacing between the frames.
Other Features
To capture long exposure shots, the Sardina camera is equipped with the bulb settings and a 1/4-inch tripod socket. To prevent blurry images, the Lomography camera has a cable release socket to keep it stable. It has a dedicated micro contact designed to used with the proprietary Fritz the Blitz flash included with the camera. The external flash can be attached to the side of the camera. The flash is equipped with three distance settings (5.25', 4', and 2') to control the exposure and four colored filters (blue, yellow, white, and red) to modify the color of the flash.
