Lost Photos

the Diana Baby 110 - always the forgotten child in my repertoire of Lomography camera. granted, it is a Diana camera, and my feelings re: this particular camera tend to sway towards the negative spectrum on most days when i add it to my arsenal. still, it occupies a space in my bookshelf, with at least one roll of 110 film left to expose. my first exploratory roll was met with mixed results, and my second roll mostly reflects how i initially felt about the camera. it took me a little bit more than a year to completely expose this roll, not merely because of how life gets in the way of taking photographs, but also because i cannot for the life of me find a suitable occasion to take this camera out of its dust-ridden shelf. my experimentation with a jerry-rigged flash didn't come to fruition post-roll one, so that automatically relegates the camera as an "outdoor-only" camera. even in mildly shaded areas, the pictures come out too washed out for my tastes. not only that, my initial thoughts re: the quality of the photographs are reaffirmed with the developing of the second roll - it's just not worth the extra effort anymore. perhaps that is why it took me so long to expose the roll. i'm already half-expecting the results to be shitty even before i make the exposure.

that might certainly be the elitist DSLR snob in me ranting on about a toy camera. for what it's worth, the Diana Baby 110 is an oddity in my repertoire (aside from the Lomography Konstruktor that failed miserably to properly expose its exploratory roll, a fault in the design and construction, perhaps). it probably makes for a pretty sweet keychain. as for that final roll of 110 film - there might be a time when a suitable project or occasion would call for its services, but for the time being, it sits in my drybox waiting the reckoning. or not.