Action Sampler Camera Views
The Action Sampler, as I'll refer to it from here on, is a small plastic camera from China that takes four pictures on a single frame, with an 0.22 second delay between each. To that end it has four small wideangle meniscus lenses and a flywheel for shutter. The system is really simple and cheap, but it's also elegant and effective. You actually do get four very clear time-separated pictures on your single frame. The camera is the epitome of simplicity, and it was sold for very low prices, but none of that prevented LOMOgraphy from assimilating it and charging outrageous prices (again). Now you can buy an Action Sampler, or its brother the Action Sampler 2.0, for tens of times its manufacturing cost and enrich the Austrians in the process. Long live LOMOgraphy. What's next people, you gonna sell the Leica M7 for $20.000 and call it the LOMO Analog?
The Action Sampler comes in all shapes and sizes. The LOMOgraphy one is transparent plastic, but the ones I've owned are black and silver, and I remember you could get them in all kinds of colours. What's less well known is that there is actually an Action Sampler Deluxe (my designation) with a real optical viewfinder on top instead of the flip-up wireframe. The body design is also slightly different, and the exposure counter is covered by a transparent plastic disc. For the rest it's the same camera. Where to get them? I bought my Deluxe at a flea market for €2...
This little beauty is the one and only incredible four-lens-photo-photo-photo-photo ActionSampler. Available in two sexy surfaces. With one shot you get a series of four images on one print & a macro-movie to be relished online! Now even more robust, ultra-heated and, in its awesome packaging, the ideal gift. It even comes with a wrist strap so you can be sure you2're holding onto your camera at all times.
Hurray! I've acquired the best camera in the world. It costs epound;25 and it takes four small pictures within one conventional photo. It's called an Action Sampler because within the space of one second it takes the four shots in sequence -- capturing a quarter of a second each. One second frozen in time.
Action Sampler Camera Images
