While the Diana Mini is supposed to be a half frame camera (with square photo capability) that allows you to shoot double the amount of frames per roll …. mine acted the opposite. I shot my roll using the square format and was supposed to get 36 exposures from the roll of redscale film … I ended up getting about half the amount only! Argh! Damn! First was the problem of forgetting to fire the camera before loading the film. This caused the camera to tear some of the sprockets when I advanced it. Argh! Then later … it somehow stopped advancing! It was partly my mistake too … because I wasn’t looking at the film counter and thought I had finished the entire roll when the film refused to advanced anymore.
Despite the disaster … I love this multi exposure of the duckies!
Oh well … I still haven’t figured out why it stopped advancing halfway. Maybe some of those little pieces of the film got stuck in the gears when the sprockets got torn … or is my Mini a lemon? Guess I’ll have to try another roll to find out.
What made things worse was lots of the shots were underexposed! They were taken last weekend at the Animals Resort when I brought Fitzand there to have some fun. The weather was gloomy and the Mini was the only camera I had with me and it was loaded with a roll of ISO100 redscale film. Desperate to cure my itch (fingers!) … I emptied the roll there and thus the many underexposed shots. Argh!!! I’m a fool!
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