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The Diana and Holga have shown me that good photography transcends me sharpness. Digging back through the years I found in my scrapbook a picture I took in high school (1956) with my only camera then, a Uniflex TLR. Not great, not terrible camera, but the picture is still one of my favorites. When I look at some of the masters, particularly street photographers, sharpness or lack thereof is usually irrelevant. A great concept or moment or emotion can be conveyed with a so-so, even primitive, camera. Maybe I should go back to my first, an Ansco Panda?
I've got a Shakey's pizza promo version of the Diana. Pride of my collection!
Hey Ted, thanks for the review on the Diana. I wanted to tell you the city of Dallas demolished the "Art Tunnel" to put in a rail line. It was a sad day because Good Records closed too. Hang on to your Deep Ellum pics… it's getting gentrified and most of the landmarks are vanishing.
Had one of those back in the 60s. Still do, somewhere. Took surprisingly good snaps. Gotta find it now!
I had a Diana camera many years ago..I believe it was 1965 I received it as a birthday present that year. As I recall first couple of rolls of film I shot with it the images looked great to a twelve year old kid, and I felt like a 'pro photographer' carrying that thing around. All was good until my Mom accidentally left my beloved Diana camera inside the car on the seat in the hot sun, and my Diana camera essentially baked in the sun and was ruined. That camera though started me out for a love of photography. Great video brought back memories.
Wasn't there a decent Russian camera called the Smiena that this camera may have been copied from. The Smiena was low cost intended for teenagers and young adults. I had a chance to use back in the '80's, and have to say the lens an build quality was much better.
I had a "Windsor" when I was nine years old! It cost around $2. processing the film cost more than the camera! It had light leaks and lens distortion, but it took pictures. I was happy! I think I ordered it from an advertisement on the back of a popsicle wrapper. LOL.
Pictures look like old Instagram pictures when people used filters :DD
how do you transfer these to a computer
i pay 200 for mine
Greetings. Around 2000 I took black and white classes at City College in San Diego. My instructor happens to be A. E. Fournet who also teaches workshop in Prague during the summer. Anyway she uses nothing but Diana cameras. She has a huge collection of the vintage models and the company that makes the camera made her a personal Diana camera. She is also a published photographer and the pictures are from Diana's. She only does black and white. Look her up, an underrated artist. She is now the Dean of Photography at the University of Tennessee.
I'd really like to see you do a video on the Empire Baby sometime. I recently acquired one, but not a lot of info, or example shots with this camera on line.
09:05 robot laser beam penetrates its opponent O.O nothing we see everyday.
where can you develop the film?
I just found one of these at the Goodwill for $3 and I've fallen down a vintage camera hole trying to figure out how to use it.
Anyone know what film speed is best for this camera???
Whats better this or holga?
Do you suppose cameras like my old Kodak DC210 (~1MP digital) will see a surge in popularity with a future generation?
How on earth do you make a CAMERA for 50 cents and STILL make a profit?
I have diana clone called "Rand" got it for £5 with the original box, cant wait to play with it 😀