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First Impressions: Lomography Diana Baby (110 Film Format)

Chris Gampat
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09/05/2012
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Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Diana Mini hands on review (8 of 8)ISO 800

The other night, I attended the Lomography launch party for the new Diana Baby camera: which shoots the recently resurrected 110 film format. After seeing a couple of photos prints shot with the camera, I have to admit that I’m very impressed. But even if the 110 film format doesn’t attract you (most Phoblographer staffers are all about medium format) then you instantly just have to love the form factor and just how fun the camera can really be.

The Diana Baby comes with two different lenses: a wide and a portrait. It’s best to stick with the wide to be honest.

The front of the camera is very much holding true to the old Diana in the simplicity of it all. There is even the shutter on the right of the camera. Though in my use, I couldn’t move it without seemingly shaking the camera when shooting one handed the way that Hanz is in the opening photo. I’ll surely improve my form though.

The top of the camera this time around doesn’t contain a film advance. Instead there is a little PC Port for a flash connection.

The back of the camera contains the film base/back and also has the viewfinder. There are two different framelines in the finder: and inner and an outer. The outer is for the wide angle and the inner is for the portrait lens.

The bottom of the camera contains the release for the back/film and the shutter setting. You can choose bulb, or the regular shutter speed.

As you can also see, the lenses are really, really tiny. Think Pentax Q size, almost.

The film back comes off in an interesting way: you don’t slide it down, instead you pull it off straight toward you.

If you want to take the camera around for some street shooting, we strongly recommend using it with a flash like this the same way that the old masters did. And then, just have fun. Heck, this is an awesome party camera too.

We will call in a review unit sooner or later, so stay tuned.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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