I take mine seriously, too, but in a different way: I have six. Cheers, T. Your shot of the car dashboard also reminds me that the very same toy shops also sold stick-on plastic steering wheels for similar reasons. As an aside, the confectionary shops also sold sweet cigarettes. Aah, the s — a classic decade. Best Wishes. Thanks for your feedback. I think that one of the art professors wanted everyone in his classes to have the experience of using this gem.
Admittedly, I never had the pleasure of seeing any of the results. Thanks so much for your enlightening and entertaining article. Well the film is in it so it will get at least one run as a pinhole camera.
After that it might go on the shelf. Or, since the lens is plastic in a plastic housing, I might try gluing it back together with superglue. But man, those rims on that BMW 7 series are sweet. Feel good that you got that many rolls of film out of the Diana. Really nice lens, really difficult to focus the ground glass screen pretty much was useless. I got one excellent roll of film out of it. Roll 2 the film transport started to act up — 6 pics out of what should have been Roll 3 — kaput.
So my Lubitel pretty much lasted 1. By the way, it had a softer shutter release than my Rolleiflex 2. I mean, are they technically good? Brilliant way to put it…like a love hate relationship.
I have all the Diana bits, including the mini. In the end I love my crappy camera. I loved mine too until it broke. But having it break so quickly has put me off trying to find a replacement. Hopefully you have better luck. I just got a Diana and happened the same.. I was very disappointed at first, but then I checked the manual — the lens could be removed and the camera could be used as pinhole. Craig Sinclair September 11, Share this post!
All stories by:Craig Sinclair. Trev September 11, at am. Brian nicholls September 11, at am. Craig Sinclair September 11, at pm. Fontaine Lewis September 11, at am. Chuck Fong September 11, at am. Mon Mioamoi September 11, at pm. Clive W September 15, at pm. It rolls the film on to the take up spool and will only rotate in one direction. There is no protection against double exposures so you have to remember to advance the film and watch through the viewing window.
On the other hand, if you wish to make a double exposure, it is easy to do with this camera. Also the pieces of plastic that hold the spools in place are very flimsy, which can cause the film to jam. The shutter release is a simple sliding knob on the right hand side of the lens. It uses a two part mechanism in the camera, as you press the lever down one window opens to reveal the aperture hole and another window slides quickly over the open hole to expose the film.
A simple mechanical setup means less opportunity for functional failure. The Diana also comes with a little plastic piece attached by a cord to assist in using bulb mode for long exposure shots.
With the shutter set to bulb mode, you can very carefully place the tiny piece of plastic into the shutter release slot to hold the shutter open. This works much better if the camera is on a tripod vs simply set on a flat surface. The Diana has a standard threaded tripod mount on the bottom. Piece of plastic for holding shutter open.
Plastic wedged into shutter slot, holding shutter open. The Diana's viewfinder is nothing more than a plastic window above the lens. The Lomography user manual romanticizes this crap by saying; "As you can imagine, the viewfinder is not super-precise These composition errors occur because, instead of looking through the lens as you would in a DSLR, the viewfinder is about an inch and a half above the line of sight of the lens. This parallax effect gets worse the closer you are to your subject.
This is about the same distance between the taking and viewing lens of a TLR, yet for whatever reason the parallax error seems much worse in the Diana than in any of my TLR cameras. For what Lomography calls "true pin hole mode" you can remove the plastic lens from the camera. The top of the camera incorporates two holes for plugging in the specially designed flash or a hot shoe adapter.
These holes provide an electrical circuit connection. The circuit is closed by the activation of the shutter through a simple mechanical contact. Top of Page. Jump down to conclusions. Focal Distance Comparison:. Honestly, you have to look very closely to tell the difference between the focal distance in these two photos.
In general only the center of a Diana photo is sharp so I really should have performed this test with the subject in the center and then measured out 1 meter, 3 meters, and 6 meters. I will try and do this next time I shoot a roll.
However, looking at these two photos, the letter A does appear more in focus in the close shot and the tail of the plane is a bit blurrier than in the second shot. Double Exposure Fun:. I took a photo of the statue against the sky and then one of the front of a cathedral.
When taking double exposures you add light to the photo each time you open the shutter, so I used sunshine mode to avoid overexposure even when shooting the church which was in the shadows. Other than the modern building in the lower left corner, this turned out to be a nice use of double exposure and the camera performed its job well. Capturing Motion. For this shot I used infinity focal distance and the sunshine setting. Light Settings and Problems with Parallax:. I was trying to capture the airplane sitting next to me through the window of the plane.
For whatever reason, I decided to tilt the camera sideways totally useless with square format!! And thus, I cut off the window in both these shots. Lighting wise, I was trying to find the setting that would not blow out the bright background and possibly still show a bit of the interior of the plane. In the first photo with partly cloudy setting the outside is darker, but none of the inside is visible.
In the second photo using the cloudy setting lightened up the outside but allowed for some of the interior to be visible. I experimented with the pin hole setting and bulb mode for some long exposure shots. Carrie Patterson 12 years ago.
I have both but prefer the mini! The regular size diana is considerably sharper but I find the softness of the mini to be quite charming. The flash is optional in my opinion. Not really needed if you plan on taking mostly day time shots. I hardly use a flash with the mini. The camera also has bulb mode which comes in handy for night time shots! Gimel Vav 12 years ago. These cameras are so different, it's odd that we have to compare them. But it's also totally understandable. It's easier to load, shoot, process, scan, and print.
You can get many more shots - even in square mode. The MINI has a built-in shutter release cable bush. It's just small and light compared to anything. The MINI is easier to use because focus is almost meaningless.
You can treat it more like a fixed-focus camera. It's easier to advance to the next frame because you just wind till it stops. You will get strong vignetting with soft edges in many of your pictures in square mode.
You will even get some vignetting in half-frame mode. You can shoot multiple and 35mm formats. You can also shoot Instax with the Instax back. You can do 35mm sprocket hole photography. You have a selection of lenses all the way from fish eye to telephoto.
You have four aperture settings - including pinhole. The MINI only gives you two. Just the fact that you can do pinhole photography takes you into another realm of photography.
Some people specialize in pinholes and nothing else. What's more important to you? Convenience or flexibility? Go with the MINI. Of course, cost is an issue too.
0コメント