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Experiments in medium-format film.

Homer Simpson once said, “Every time I learn something new, it pushes something old out of my brain.”
I’ve spent the better part of the last two years learning to wrangle expensive DSLRs, and all this new knowledge pushed out the quiet fact that cameras are essentially quite simple - a box with a hole to let light in, and a surface to capture the light.

I’ve been wanting a lomography camera ever since I saw my first Hipstamatic photo, and when Tori Amos released a limited edition DianaF+ camera I couldn’t help but pick one up. Yes, I am tragic.

So, here are my first attempts at using the camera. I used one roll of Kodak Ektachrome 160 and a roll of Lomography 400 which came with the kit. Once I got used to loading up film (what, you have to thread it through and then keep winding?!) and trying not to ruin it when I took it out of the camera, my biggest struggle has been resigning myself to the fact that I can’t immediately review the picture I’ve taken and re-compose it if I’ve stuffed it up.

There’s a magic in it though.

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