I shiver whenever I hear my name being called while waiting at a dentist queue but it is a totally different story when I hear my name being called while I’m busy pounding my keyboard at my work desk. Of course the voice (of the person calling my name) must be from a stranger … and that is usually … the postman! A large parcel arrived today (a little late for Christmas but who’s complaining?!) and it in … the Tori Amos special edition Diana F+ camera! I was dead excited but had to contain the excitement til I get home and it wasn’t an easy task.
Since this is probably one of the nicest packaged Diana F+ … I tried to take some snapshots of the unboxing process. It is late at night and lighting is bad in my room … so the color of the camera might be a little off (from the actual thing) …
Enough of that crap and let’s move on to see what’s in the package. The 2-disc CD ‘From Russia With Love’ and a photo (one of 5 special photographs taken of Tori during the Moscow trip using the TORI camera) were not packaged in the rather big black box. Man … let’s finish with this and I’ll go listen to the CDs before bedtime …
Exclusive & Unreleased “Live from Moscow” Double CD” signed by Tori!!! Oh … there’s also a roll of 120 film thrown in.
Carefully opened up the big black box to reveal the die-cut piano box. This is one camera box that I’ll keep for good!
In it … the usual Diana F+ packaging but this one is in all black with some orangy text. Coolness!
Couldn’t resist but to take some snaps of the 4 sides of the box. On them are some lines from some of her songs.
The most exciting part now … the camera itself!!! It is really beautiful! I don’t really know what color you call it but it is like a little orangy/gold. Pretty! Pretty!!!!!
See the film advance knob!!! Pretty!!! Pretty!!!
See the signature at the back!!!
The only thing I didn’t quite like was the black color flash. I sure wish they had made it having the same color as the camera top. That will make it super awesome.
Even the book that I’ve always find unnecessary (maybe because I own one too many) has been given a new look (on the cover).
If you think the camera is the only thing that looks cool here … just look at the 2 ‘China’ edition lenses that comes with it. The wide angle & close up lenses. I love the fonts!
The wide angle one is called ‘Distance’ while the closeup is called … ermmm ‘Close’.
I know it is gonna suck real bad when my credit card bill comes but I’m very happy with this ‘investment’. I think I’ll never bring this out for shoots and it will definitely be joining the other ‘girls’ in the display cabinet once they return home.
If you are interested to get one too … check out this link.
* Update *
I took a second look at the camera after posting this and realise that the actual color (of the cam) is more orangy … more like the color of the words on the Diana F+ book above. I better put more effort to adjust white balance when taking photos next time. 😛 😛 😛
* Update 2 *
I did some Photoshopping to bring the colors (at least) a bit closer to the real thing. Due to my super sucky Photoshop skills … ermm … the color is not exactly the same (as the color on the cam) but at least it seems to be better than the original versions of these images. 😛