Saturday, October 2, 2010

Lady Diana

The Diana F+ is a plastic toy camera - a replica of an old Russian-made camera from the 1960s. It is made of plastic, has a plastic lens (frequently with irregularities), no ability to zoom, questionable focus and only four aperture settings (sunny, partly cloudy, cloudy or pinhole). It uses 120 format film. There is little control over the images - light leakage on the film is common, shaking is inevitable even when mounted on a tripod, and in these days of instant digital gratification, one has to manually drop the film at specialized film labs with 120 film processing capability, and wait 24-90 hours to see the results.

...oh, and it takes absolutely breathtaking pictures!