MY MOM AND ME

My Mom and me on her back porch. Taken with a Diana.

DClone90

Just because I've got a new toy with my Nikon D90 doesn't mean I've given up tinkering with vintage and toy cameras. I've figured out a way to basically put a digital back on these cameras. Just use a piece of ground glass, attach it to the film plane and open the lens and take a picture of the glass with the digital camera.

I will perfect this with a tube later this Spring when it's warm enough to work comfortably in the garage. A black tube connecting the digital camera to the film camera will cut out stray light and should render an image faithful to what the lens (in this case a Diana Clone) projects to the film plane. It worked quite well in these first experiments.

Diana and Holga with digital backs and image stabilization, plus instant image gratification sounds like fun to me.

LEFT OVER SUMMER

These were taken with a modified Diana Clone camera this past summer.

1: Sky Glider at Iowa State Fair
2: The Giant Slide at Iowa State Fair
3 Saddle in Horse Barn at Jasper County Fair
4: Alice getting a Corn Dog at Iowa State Fair
5: Cattle at Jasper County Fair
6: Jasper County Courthouse

I fitted an "Arrow" (Diana Clone) with a shutter from an Ansco folding camera, allowing shutter speeds from 1/300 sec. to 1sec. plus bulb, with a cable release thread and electronic flash sync. By gluing a filter ring to the front of the lens I can attach Kodak Series VI filters and lens hood.