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I’m a big fan of lomography. When I saw that they made interchangeable lenses for the Diana camera, I was super excited to get my hands on a kit. But then when I stumbled across that they sold a EF to F+ adapter so I could put lomo lenses on my DLSR I couldn’t wait to buy it, so I did.
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Luckily I did notice the crop factor before I purchased all the lenses. The Diana shoots 6x6. What that means is a 35mm diana lens would effectively be a 72mm for full frame sensors and a 115mm for crop sensor cameras. So with that in mind I only got the 20mm and the 35mm lenses as they were the “widest” lenses I could get.
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After I received them, I put them on the camera and shot a series of photos and video with them. To my disappointment, the plastic lenses didn’t distort the image like I hoped it would. I don’t know what I was really expecting, but all the lenses really did is make the image softer and darker. So the long and the short of it is that if you want the lomo effect, you either have to stick to film or use your photoshop skills to recreate the look.
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