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More Instant Photography Goodness!
Diana Instant Back
Who said instant photography was a dying art form? Pish and nonsense – I say! More good news from the lovely (and ever so slightly wacky) people over at lomography.com: they have just released a new Instant Back for the perfectly-formed plastic medium format (and not at all dirty) Diana camera! And what’s more, it uses Fuji Instax Mini film – which (as we have mentioned in previous posts, when we’ve been pushing the delights of Fuji Instax photography) is still being produced (and Fuji show no signs of losing faith in the format).
You can pick up a Diana starter kit + instant back (and two films) for £117.25 (or 125 euros) now from lomography.com. And if you already have a Diana camera, you can pick up the back separately for around £75.
Visit their Diana microsite for more information: www.lomography.com/diana/
CameraFile: Fuji Instax 100/200
Fuji Instax 100
Camera Model: Instax 100 / 200
Manufacturer: Fujifilm
Format: Instax Wide instant film
Type: Instant film camera
Price: £20 or less on eBay, or £49 for a brand new 200 via Amazon marketplace
Reasons to Buy: You want an instant camera but don’t want to buy a secondhand Polaroid due to the inflated market for integral Polaroid film. At present Fuji Instax Wide film is still available for around £5 to £8 for a 10 exposure cartridge. The camera requires no fancy bespoke batteries – simply runs on 4 x AAs.
There are two different focus ranges which you can switch between – the first gives you the range 90cm to 3m, and the second from 3m to infinity. As with Polaroid cameras, you can also just to lighten or darken the exposure (but only by a single step each way).
Processing: It’s an instant camera!! All of the processing takes place whilst you wait patiently on your bum for a few minutes for the photo to develop. › Continue reading
Instant Film Heaven (Without Breaking The Bank)
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You may or may not have already read Paul’s earlier post about saving Polaroid (if you haven’t - what are you waiting for! durrh). In the post he gets all gooey-eyed and nostalgic about the pleasure of taking photos with instant film and I have to say I agree with him – there is nothing quite like it.
I can’t put my finger on what it is about instant film that is so appealing above and beyond digital photography which if anything is even more instant! Maybe that is part of the appeal. Instant film makes you wait and watch the picture be revealed where as digital appears on our lcd screens in the blink of an eye…..where’s the build up and dramatic pause? Traditional film goes too far in the other direction and makes us wait to get the film developed. That’s not good enough for some of us impatient photographers. We want to see the magic happen. That’s maybe where instant film fills a void. It’s got the instant gratification of an instant photo that you would get on a digital camera and all of the alchemy and magic appeal you get with film.
Sadly though with the impending death of Polaroid film, as Paul mentioned in his article, the price of Instant photography is sky-rocketing with packs of film selling for more than your grandma on eBay. There is I’m pleased to report one often overlooked alternative. Instax! › Continue reading
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