I posted before about the toy camera work shop I attended back in March with Laura Burlton and Warren Harold.
I used my Diana and a 35mm back. If you’ve never shot with a toy camera, it’s really fun! With a 120 film, you can pretty much guesstimate the field of view you see through your viewfinder versus the field of view you actually capture. But with a 35mm back, it is SO hard to figure out which part of the image will actually be exposed onto the negative. It’s like shooting blind! (…Which is fun for me…) Hip shooting, the art of taking photos without putting your eyes to the viewfinder, used to be my thing. While it was fun not knowing what your shots looked like in the end, it’s now just something I do occasionally. And with a 35mm film, so it doesn’t hurt the pocket as much as rolls of 120s do.
I love these! I have a holga and a lomo that I used to play with a lot years ago. It got really expensive!
Super expensive
That’s why I was so happy to invest in the 35mm back – I could go through a few rolls and not feel so poor! However, i do like having them developed by AZ Photo Labs, and they cost a pretty penny.