Lomo Online Photofinishing Presentation at Photokina 2000 (Cologne, Germany), from 20th to 25th September
18.09.2000, 15:26
This is the largest photographic trade fair in the world.
Vienna, Sept 18 (PROTEXT/OTS) - Lomo is taking a stand of500m2 to present a very special agenda targeted to make aLomoKina of the Photokina.
The launch and presentation of the new online photofinishing& sharing service Five trips to Tokyo for the Finals of theLomOlympics to be won Free entrance to Photokina for allparticipants in the LomOlympics LomoFreakShow.
Lomo started out in 1992 as an art/culture initiative and hasgrown to become a vast community of almost 500,000 photoenthusiasts in over 30 countries. From autumn 2000 TheLomographic Society (Lomographische AG) is to be one of the veryfirst firms worldwide offering fast and inexpensive onlinephotofinishing & sharing. The launch of the new service is tocoincide with the relaunch of www.lomo.com (one of the mostsuccessful Austrian websites).
The new Lomo website with online photofinishing is beinglaunched with tHE fIRST LOMOfREAKsHOW... providing the backdropto a realtime and internet-accessible competition to select fivemore champion Lomographers who win a free trip to Tokyo for thefinals of the LomOlymPics (20th-30th October: seewww.lomo.com/lomolympics).Online Photofinishing & Photo Sharing: The LomoLab Lomographersare to have their very own worldwide online photofinishingsystem. This system is going to enable Lomographers everywhere tohave films developed and printed fast and reliably.www.lomo.com/username is to provide password- protected imagesonline, while a whole wad of stuff comes per post straight toone's home: a CD-ROM with all images digitised, traditionalenlargements and negatives + a LomoGizmo, free film and thelatest LomoNews. Images can be accessed anytime, from anywhereand/or rendered visible to the whole wide world with one click ofthe mouse (even animated!). This new facility is going to open upan endless range of new Lomographic possibilities: All thosemillions of colourful, weird, in-focus, blurred, little and bigimages produced every day by Lomographers around the world aregoing online.
Contact:Wolfgang Stranzinger/President:stranzinger@lomo.comTel: +43-1-89944-0/+43-699-18994499Amira Bibawy/LomoCommunications:amira@lomo.comTel: +43-699-18994460The Lomographic Society InternationalHollergasse 41A-1150 ViennaAustria
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