diana f mini 35mm

after recently getting the white angel slim camera i think i’ve rather been bitten by the 35mm bug. learnt a couple of lessons along the way though…like don’t buy ilford hp5 iso400 film unless you’re going to develop it yourself…£10 a time and it’ll take 2 — 4 weeks using jessops. so i got some neopan 400cn from fujilab that can be pro­cessed by most shops as it’s c41 (even tesco do it!). so then i needed some­thing to com­pli­ment the film…hmmm…i present the diana f mini 35mm from lomo­graphy…

my favour­ite pur­chase for quite some time. it’s pack­aged in a lovely present­a­tion box with a manual, lens cap, strap, hard­back book and the camera itself. it’s compact but sturdy (mine’s the white version but it comes in other colours), has adjustable focus, 2 choices of aper­ture (f/8 & f/11), a bulb mode and the coolest shutter release i’ve ever come across. another feature is that as well as taking the stand­ard square expos­ure it has a feature that allows 2 por­trait pho­to­graphs to be squeezed onto each frame allow­ing 72 shots from a 36 expos­ure film. mul­tiple expos­ures are also easy to achieve. tempted? lomo­graphy have an online shop but you may get them slightly cheaper on ebay. they ooze style i think.