Diana Camera Fun

So I bought this little Diana Camera around December thinking that it would provide the kind of artsy fun that I've been looking for lately... It's now April and I'm just seeing some fruits of my labor! First of all, Diana Cameras run on 120 film which isn't exactly available at Walgreens, and it isn't easily developed either - like, it has to go to a lab for at least two weeks. Photo lab...remember those? With paper? Crazy.

Over the past few weeks I've been getting reacquainted with things like F-stops (but not really, because the Diana is really too simple for all of that,) and light exposures. I suppose the best way to explain this gadget is that it's like a pinhole camera with a big lens - like the "Sunprints" you made as a kid with leaves and housekeys on light reactive paper. This thing couldn't be more manual, in fact, it's battery-free which warms my Luddite heart.

Today I finally got some prints back. I stood at the busstop tearing into the photo envelopes with that fever of excitement that I haven't known since I last had photos actually...developed. That is, without seeing a preview first. Mind, I didn't really know what I was doing (and still don't, which is the whole beauty of the situation,) but I began by taking some pictures around my apartment and office. Let me know what you think!

Comments

[maura]

love 'em! husband has a holga which is similar but creates different effects