So cool.
I think I've found my Christmas present from myself to myself.
A customer came into Black's with some photos taken with one of these and they were so interesting and unusual.
"Dating back to the early 1960s, the all-plastic Diana camera is a cult legend - famous for its dreamy, radiant, and lo-fi images. Our brand new Diana F+ is a faithful reproduction and a loving homage to the classic Flash Diana - with a few new features tossed in. First off, it includes a retro-styled electronic flash which fires a burst of white or colored light at your subject. Included adapters allow you to use the Diana Flash on standard hotshoe cameras (like the LC-A+ and Fisheye 2) or use a hotshoe flash on Diana F+ body. Its plastic lens, 2 shutter settings (daylight & "B"), 3 aperture settings, and manual focus are all hallmarks of the original Diana. And on top of that, the Diana F+ offers a removable lens and super-small aperture for pinhole images, two image formats (12 or 16 square shots on a standard 120 roll), an endless panorama feature that allows for unlimited and nearly seamless panoramic shots, and both a standard tripod thread & shutter lock for easy shake-free long exposures. Each package includes the new "Diana Vignettes, More True Tales & Short Stories" book - packed with over 200 pages of Diana history, Diana+ images, and truly off-the-wall fictional stories. Uses all varieties of medium format 120 film. Imported. Wipe clean."
Other neat things to use with it:
- a 35mm film adapter, which I plan to get. 35mm can be developed and printed on-site at Black's, whereas 120 film can be printed on-site but must be processed off-site. The more control I can have over my own stuff the better.
- a few interchangeable lenses (one of them is a fisheye, which I've always wanted)
- this thing called a "Splitzer:" "With a Diana F+ in hand, it's nice to take a straight-off, one-shot image of your favorite person, animal, or thing. But what about going past that large, single full-frame? How about slicing & dicing it into halves and quarters? What about dictating exactly what appears on your photo - and exactly where it appears? Take that subject in front of your face and slice it straight down the middle. Slap it onto the right side of your image, and then take a breath. What do you want on the left? That's the beauty - the choice is yours! You no longer just take the shots; you "call" them too With the Splitzer, you'll never look at a Diana+ image as a single whole again. Instead, you'll truly see it as the "sum of its parts" - which are happily decided upon and placed by you. Two small plastic blades can be turned to cut your image into halves, quarters, eighths, and sixteenths. Image parts bleed seamlessly into on another. The Diana+ Splitzer easily slips on and off the Diana+ lens and works with all Lomography Diana+ and Diana F+ cameras. Do the Splitzer!"
- coloured gel filters for the flash for neato coloured washes.
The images this thing takes have a retro, Polaroid-esque quality which is nice since Polaroid won't exist next year. I've been thinking about getting back into photography for a while, and this might be what finally gets me thinking about it again.
I'd also like a new digital. The one I want is $299, so that'll have to wait a while.
A customer came into Black's with some photos taken with one of these and they were so interesting and unusual.
"Dating back to the early 1960s, the all-plastic Diana camera is a cult legend - famous for its dreamy, radiant, and lo-fi images. Our brand new Diana F+ is a faithful reproduction and a loving homage to the classic Flash Diana - with a few new features tossed in. First off, it includes a retro-styled electronic flash which fires a burst of white or colored light at your subject. Included adapters allow you to use the Diana Flash on standard hotshoe cameras (like the LC-A+ and Fisheye 2) or use a hotshoe flash on Diana F+ body. Its plastic lens, 2 shutter settings (daylight & "B"), 3 aperture settings, and manual focus are all hallmarks of the original Diana. And on top of that, the Diana F+ offers a removable lens and super-small aperture for pinhole images, two image formats (12 or 16 square shots on a standard 120 roll), an endless panorama feature that allows for unlimited and nearly seamless panoramic shots, and both a standard tripod thread & shutter lock for easy shake-free long exposures. Each package includes the new "Diana Vignettes, More True Tales & Short Stories" book - packed with over 200 pages of Diana history, Diana+ images, and truly off-the-wall fictional stories. Uses all varieties of medium format 120 film. Imported. Wipe clean."
Other neat things to use with it:
- a 35mm film adapter, which I plan to get. 35mm can be developed and printed on-site at Black's, whereas 120 film can be printed on-site but must be processed off-site. The more control I can have over my own stuff the better.
- a few interchangeable lenses (one of them is a fisheye, which I've always wanted)
- this thing called a "Splitzer:" "With a Diana F+ in hand, it's nice to take a straight-off, one-shot image of your favorite person, animal, or thing. But what about going past that large, single full-frame? How about slicing & dicing it into halves and quarters? What about dictating exactly what appears on your photo - and exactly where it appears? Take that subject in front of your face and slice it straight down the middle. Slap it onto the right side of your image, and then take a breath. What do you want on the left? That's the beauty - the choice is yours! You no longer just take the shots; you "call" them too With the Splitzer, you'll never look at a Diana+ image as a single whole again. Instead, you'll truly see it as the "sum of its parts" - which are happily decided upon and placed by you. Two small plastic blades can be turned to cut your image into halves, quarters, eighths, and sixteenths. Image parts bleed seamlessly into on another. The Diana+ Splitzer easily slips on and off the Diana+ lens and works with all Lomography Diana+ and Diana F+ cameras. Do the Splitzer!"
- coloured gel filters for the flash for neato coloured washes.
The images this thing takes have a retro, Polaroid-esque quality which is nice since Polaroid won't exist next year. I've been thinking about getting back into photography for a while, and this might be what finally gets me thinking about it again.
I'd also like a new digital. The one I want is $299, so that'll have to wait a while.