Monday 5 July 2010

My Diana Mini.

My camera collection is growing and growing and my new edition is a Diana Mini. I love film cameras as my digital files end up clogging up my computer and never getting looked at, whereas actually going to get film developed ensures that I have hard copies of my photos. The Diana's shooting style is one of my favourites as it has either a half frame option or a square frame option. This basically means that on the half frame shooting mode you get 72 shots on one 35mm film instead of the standard 36. The square mode gives you 36 frames and produces a single shot in one frame. I took my Diana on its first outing this weekend to Knowsley Safari park and after one film breaking, I finally got back into the hang of loading film and managed to use a whole film of half shots so who knows what my pictures will look like! I plan on getting them developed some time today so I'm sure I'll be showing off my first batch of Diana Mini's later on!



6 comments:

  1. I adore the simplicity of plastic cameras. There's a real art to it. I got a colorsplash last year (saving up for a Holga now) and I can't get enough of it! Can't wait to see the results,

    Claire @ Jazzpad

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  2. I just got my first Diana Mini pictures back and am planning on scanning them in shortly - they're great!

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  3. lovely camera, I'm dieing to get my hands on a Diana. xx

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  4. I've just been in to get them developed so am picking them up tomorrow as surprise surprise Jessops fabulous '1 hour developing' isn't working! So hopefully I can upload a few tomorrow - most of them will be of giraffes and random animals as it was a test film before I go on holiday! x

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  5. I am so very jealous right now. I want to own my own diana so bad!

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  6. Try ebay...this one was off ebay and at a pretty good price! I just need the flash now...

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