World Toy Camera Day 2014
Apparently yesterday was World Toy Camera Day (WTCD) or so the internet said and what the internet says goes. So I loaded a roll of Ektar 100 in my 1960’s Diana medium format ‘toy’ camera. I went out with the plan to shoot all 16 frames and then develop it the same day, which I did. I also pushed the film by two stops and processed the film at 104 degrees instead of the 102 prescribed. It was partially to compensate for the fact that I had already processed more than the recommended number of 35mm rolls of film in the chemistry and the fact that the Dianna has a fixed shutter somewhere between 1/60 and 1/100 second and I sensed that it was causing under exposure for the conditions. The other reason was that I just felt like it and I could. My Dianna leaks light like a pasta strainer and even though I taped it up ‘a bit’ it still let the sunshine in. So here is my contiribution to WTCD.
