The Sprocket Rocket White Edition was presented by Lomography in April 2011. It was produced especially for the Lomography BNAP Exhibition at Hong Kong Times Square in Hong Kong. The exhibition took place between April 11 and May 3, 2011.
The Sprocket Rocket White Edition has the same features as the normal edition of the Lomography camera. Also the scope of delivery of the panorama camera is identical.
Features of the camera
The super-wide angle lens of the Sprocket Rocket exposes the 72×35 mm film including the perforation. One photo with this camera is roughly equivalent to two normal shots. Thus, on a 36 frame 35mm film, approximately 18 images can be taken with the Sprocket Rocket.
The plastic lens of the Sprocket Rocket has a focal length of 30 mm and a maximum aperture of f/10.8 (almost f/11). The corners are characteristic due to strong vignetting and decreasing sharpness.
The camera offers two exposure times for panorama shots: 1/100 second and Bulb for long exposures. There is no shutter lock, so multiple exposures are possible by releasing the shutter several times. The film can be fast-forwarded and rewound at will. There are two distance settings: one for close-ups (0.6 meter to 1 meter) and one for everything else (1 meter to infinity).
A strap can be attached by a screw with a handle that screws into the tripod thread. The camera has a hot shoe for connecting an external flash and a thread for a tripod.
Developing the films
It is important to be careful not to cut the film during development, as this can result in cut images. It is difficult to get prints from the Sprocket Rocket, as most labs do not make prints with the Sprockets on them. A good solution is to scan the images yourself and then send them to a lab to have them printed.
