Lomo Diana+: Plastic Junk, Updated

Lomo, the masters of Low-Fi photography, have updated the flawed, inaccurate and poorly designed Diana camera. The new version, called the Diana+, is still flawed, inaccurate and poorly designed, but has a few little Lomo extras.

Ever look at a majestic classic car and wish that you could walk down to the dealership and pickup such a beauty brand new? That’s pretty much sums up our feelings when we came across the Diana. Who could resist the charms of its plastic body? How could you not absolutely love its lo-fi masterpiece photos?

The original, a drug-store classic from Hong Kong, leaked light, sported a plastic lens and gave unpredictable results – the perfect set of specs for a Lomo. The new version still has: "Every quirk and imperfection”, but gains a pinhole function (the end of the lens unscrews to reveal a single hole), and "Endless Panorama" mode, which winds the film a smaller distance so that the edges are close or overlapping. That's right. The Diana+ uses film. 120 film. Reviewing and deleting images is so not Lomography.

As for specifications, you get two shutter speeds; N (normal) and B (Bulb, which stays open as long as the shutter release is held down), a tripod mount, a shutter lock, multiple exposures and two different image sizes: 12 full-frame shots (5.2x5.2cm), or 16 smaller square images (4.2x4.2cm)

Best of all, it will only cost you $50 to free yourself from the tyranny of sharp focus and correct exposure. It even comes with a book of Diana+ photographs.

Product page [Lomo via Retro Thing]