Lomography

I really enjoyed reading about the Lomo cameras and lomography. I never knew there were so many cameras available that could create such strange effects. However, because so much is left up to chance and the camera itself, the artist isn't fully in control of his or her work. This makes me think lomography is more like fun than like art. I still don't exactly understand what lomography means - does using any plastic camera that distorts the photo in interesting ways in combination with the photographer not thinking carefully about each individual photo constitue lomography?