Smile real wide for the camera lenses

I have a new camera. It's beautiful, and it takes beautiful pictures.

It's funny how my shopping process works. Months ago I began shopping online for a modern digital camcorder camera, because, you know, I wanted to capture "all those moments." Somehow, in a weird twisted way throughout the months, my clicking lead me more and more towards old style film photography and away from the modern digital ones.

Searching and researching, I learned about the Diana+ and the Diana F+. I got the latter, which is a modern exact copy of the former which is vintage. It is plastic and light, and has no slot for batteries or memory cards. It takes film, and while it can potentially become an expensive hobby, it doesn't have to be.

The purpose of these cameras is to capture "those random moments." As opposed to modern digital cameras, with which we are supposed to snap anything and everything, and delete the ones we don't like later on, lomography and the Diana seem to be a little more careful, and at the same time thoughtless. True, we are generally supposed to snap anything and everything, but not like with digital cameras. Rather than seeing a beautiful flower and taking its picture from all angles possible in order to pick out the perfect angle from our computers, we would instead see that beautiful flower, snap a picture, and move on.

Surprise.

You'll see what you snapped after development.

That's what I did with my first roll, using the default 120mm film. I used the 16-shot format, and spent two days with my new camera. The third day, I took it to get developed. The fourth day, I got the pictures. I loved the results.

A couple of them were kinda dark and black, but they were the first shots, taken from the inside of my apartment, so it was expected. Out in the light however, things looked better.