INTRODUCTION

The Diana Mini is a 35mm film camera, part of the Austrian lomographic movement, made around 2009.

BEST SUITED FOR:

Lomography

PERSONAL NOTES

The Diana Mini is an attempt to make the previous Diana F+ more accessible to the masses, by the use of commenly known 35mm film instead of the bigger and more scarce 120 film. It's more compact than its big brother, it's image quality is on par with any lomographic camera, meaning that it's quite low fi, with optical issues, but interesting aesthetics.

The thing I liked the most about the Diana Mini, is the possibility to shoot square 24x24mm images instead of the regular 24x36mm images you usually do with a 35mm film camera. The only drawback is that you do not gain more frames. As the film spacing stays the same between 24x36 and 24x24, you still only do 36 exposures on a roll even for square images.

CONCLUSION

If you want to experiment lomography as it was meant in the old days, but want to use regular 35mm film, the Diana Mini is for you. If you want to play with square images, tha Agfa ISO-Rapid C is another good camera to look at.

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