It was back in the year 2007 that I started this bad ‘addiction’ … buying the Diana+/F+ clones from Lomography. I remember very clearly that this friend … Jimmy (from TreesAndShrooms) showing me the MEG version of the Diana+ camera … yeah … it was red (my fav color!) and the told me that we should buy it. So I did just that … and then picked up the Lomo World Congress edition too.
So with those 2 ‘special editions’, a normal Diana+ and an old original Diana from the 60s … I wanted to find a ‘proper’ space to keep them. My dry cabinet was full of lenses for my DSLR at that time and there was no way the Dianas can fit in there. Oh … btw … I’ve sold of most lenses and my dry cabi is pretty vacant now.
One evening after dinner outside … I happened to see this retro looking first-aid box that I suppose could fit 4 of the Dianas. Took a risk, bought it, brought it home and it fitted the 4 Dianas perfectly! I remember being so happy that I took some photos of it …
It was not long later that evil Lomography launched the Diana F+ and the possibility of the camera + flash fitting into such a small box was gone. One by one … the many editions of the Diana F+ cameras appeared and I had to move those 4 ‘pioneer’ Dianas out of the first-aid box into somewhere more ‘comfortable’ …
This image above is what happens now. My wife has not killed me so far for buying all these toys but I’m sure Fitzand has been eyeing them for quite a while now. I originally dumped all the cameras in few air-tight containers but later on got permission (from my finance controller) to ‘invest’ on these shelves from Ikea.
It was just like yesterday that I bought my first Diana+ camera from Lomography. I know they are some (evil) people churning out tempting plastic crap that are sold at some not-very-cheap prices but I’ve yet to break free from their evil spell. Maybe I should go for counselling soon …. 🙁