As I excitedly remind myself every morning Grundy and I are Malta bound late on Sunday. I couldn't be happier to get away from the drizzle and cold, five days in the Mediterranean is exactly what the doctor ordered, no, really he did but that's a long and boring story of visits to Bartlemas Surgery, blood tests and pain killers.
I have bought a new camera and I am looking forward to taking many-a-sun-drenched snap with it. It's a Diana Mini (made by The Lomographic Society.) I have it's older bigger brother already (Diana+) but due to it having to use medium format film (120) it proves tricky, unpredictable and expensive to use and process. The Diana Mini however takes standard 35mm film and thanks to a rectangular plastic insert can split each frame in half making a 36 exposure film capable of taking 72 images, bargain!
The Lomo' Society in-case you are unfamiliar have taken old cameras and have made replicas for a more contemporaneous audience. The Diana family is just one example of many reproductions and originally started off as a toy-camera given away at fair grounds or free with newspaper promotions in the 1950s/60s. As it was made very cheaply the camera suffers from light-leakage making the resulting images have a dream-like quality with dark edges and that has become a virtue and the image quality is now much sort-after. Although originally a "toy" it is a fully functioning camera but to use a Diana is to delve into a world of uncertainty; how you think an image will turn out and how it actually does are two different matters completely.
So, stay posted to this blog and my Flickr account to see the results when they are back from Snappy Snaps. The images below are of the camera and an example of a photograph taken on it (not by myself but from the Lomography website.)
I have bought a new camera and I am looking forward to taking many-a-sun-drenched snap with it. It's a Diana Mini (made by The Lomographic Society.) I have it's older bigger brother already (Diana+) but due to it having to use medium format film (120) it proves tricky, unpredictable and expensive to use and process. The Diana Mini however takes standard 35mm film and thanks to a rectangular plastic insert can split each frame in half making a 36 exposure film capable of taking 72 images, bargain!
The Lomo' Society in-case you are unfamiliar have taken old cameras and have made replicas for a more contemporaneous audience. The Diana family is just one example of many reproductions and originally started off as a toy-camera given away at fair grounds or free with newspaper promotions in the 1950s/60s. As it was made very cheaply the camera suffers from light-leakage making the resulting images have a dream-like quality with dark edges and that has become a virtue and the image quality is now much sort-after. Although originally a "toy" it is a fully functioning camera but to use a Diana is to delve into a world of uncertainty; how you think an image will turn out and how it actually does are two different matters completely.
So, stay posted to this blog and my Flickr account to see the results when they are back from Snappy Snaps. The images below are of the camera and an example of a photograph taken on it (not by myself but from the Lomography website.)
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