If you can’t get it fixed in time… Buy another?

I picked up a new Diana F+ clone today, Glow. It looks yellow on the lomography site, but it’s actually lime green and white. The flash unit looks a whole lot better on my Edelweiss camera too - because it’s white. 

The top of the camera has glow in the dark stars printed on it! Stars! Reminiscent of my tweenage days, when my ceiling was plastered with greenish glow in the dark stars.I’m delighted.

You can see the camera in this photo. it’s over to the left. Picture is me experimenting with the viewfinder that goes with the Diana fisheye lens and my cellphone. Fauxfisheye?

Fiji tomorrow, I’m just taking my cellphone and my new friend glowie. And a stash of film :)

Really sad that I’m going to be in sunny Fiji next week, and both of my little babies are broked.

So there will be no fancy lomopictures for me this trip. I’m considering buying a few disposables, or maybe getting a cheap holga or fisheye from one of the shops I’ve seen around Auckland stocking them.

Hate the thought of going photo-less.

_{This photo was taken on a Lomography Fisheye No. 2, by girl_anachronism on Fuji 400 film in Fiji.}

Can someone please put this camera in my life?

Today at Barcamp I gave this wee presentation. Posting for reference!

All photographs other than product shots are my own.

Sprockety sprockety sprockets. 

Didn’t George Jetson make Sprockets? I don’t think they were like this.

Olie Monster. Walking to Parnell for lunch on my last day at Terabyte in February. He is a giant.

Diana F+, Lomography 100 35mm film.

I’m very glad to discover that the first roll of 35mm film I put through my Diana F+ in it’s 35mm back wasn’t destroyed. It’s taking a long time to work through the pictures, but it’s super rewarding.

I got this roll developed along with a roll from my Diana Mini, and it turns out the shutter on the Mini has been stuck open, so only one picture is somewhat legible - bummer! I took some snaps on my very first visit to Melbourne a few weeks ago which I was excited about seeing.

So now, I’ve pretty much managed to break everything - Diana Mini shutter issues, accompanying F+ flash not firing with shutter release, Diana instant back not pushing instax through, Diana F+ shutter issues and errant spring… Ahhh, so accomplished.

Diana F+, Lomography 100 35mm film (sprockets! yay!), photo taken at Flock House in Bulls during Camp a Low Hum in February.

Double exposure, Auckland late 2010. Diana Mini, kodak gold 200.

I upload all (or nearly all!) my lomo pictures to lomography.com, and it never ceases to surprise and delight me when people “like” photos I’m not fond of myself. Sadly, it makes me attribute them with much more value.

This is the Tararu Store on the Thames coast road. Taken when my sister and I stopped on our way back to Auckland after Christmas - to buy the obligatory lime thickshakes and twisties. Ahh, summer.

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(by antheaw on Lomography)

Matt and Tim at Library bar, Auckland, late 2010.

Diana F+, Instant Back, Fuji Instax film.