To tell the truth, full-frame has done pretty well by us over the past years. With a Diana F+ in hand, it’s nice to take a straight-off, one-shot image of your favorite person, animal, or thing.
But what about going past that large, single full-frame? How about diving into halves and quarters? What about dictating exactly what appears on your photo – and exactly where it appears? Take that image in front of your face and slice it straight down the middle. Slap it onto the right side of your image, and then take a breath. What do you want on the left? That’s the beauty – the choice is yours! You no longer just take the shots, you “call” them too!

Using the Diana+ Splitzer is easy! Slip it onto the top of your Diana+ or Diana F+ lens and twist the blades with your fingers. All you have to do is keep track of what parts of the image you’ve shot. OR NOT: we often like to just move the blades around a bit haphazardly to see what comes out later on.

By slicing and dicing your photos, you can re-combine them to make something entirely new. Or tell a story. Or just do something totally random and insane – in the hopes that the result is cool and pleasing. Don’t worry – it probably will be, but you might want to shoot it a few times to be sure. With the Splizter, you’ll never look at an Diana+ image as a single whole again. Instead, you’ll truly see it as the “sum of its parts” – which are happily decided upon and placed by you. Certain parts of certain image fragments bleed into one another for unpredictable multiple-exposed portions. But that's just all part of the fun - isn't it? The Diana+ Splitzer is yet another way to keep those absolutely unique and totally knockout images flowing.

For this week only, every Diana+ Splitzer that you purchase – by itself or in a package – will include two sparkling and absolutely FREE rolls of medium format film. What better way to start your Splitzing career!

Free Film promotion expires midnight June 19th, 2008 (Vienna Time)

After warming you up with some slicing and dicing courtesy of the Diana+ Splitzer, it’s time to dig out your tools and get your hands dirty with Diana Mods. This time Mandi, our resident Modster, has found ingenious ways to spice up your Diana using only a humble plastic bag and extra long piece of string!

“Normal mode on Diana is a fixed exposure time of 1/100 or ‘as long as you hold down the button’ with this mod you´ll get a timer, which is ideal for long night-time exposure and evening/indoor pinhole exposures. This means it only works in "b" mode. It´s pretty easy to do”. You need: a small plastic bag or some kind of container, something sharp, water or sand or salt or sugar or something similar. Click here for Mandi’s method

String is an amazing thing. Although often under-appreciated, the modest piece of string is one of the most used tools in modification experiments.

Here we see what happened when Mandi and 1 metre of string spent some time together

It is with great pride that we announce:

the Diana World Tour will shortly begin in Hong Kong!

The festivities will take place in August. The home base will be our very own Lomography shop on Po Yan street. Here is but a small taste of what’s to come:

Thousands of images and dozens of Diana Vignettes – as submitted by the vibrant HK Lomographic Community – will be exhibited

A selection of the most historically significant classic Diana’s in our Detrich Collection will be on display.

Exclusive events – such as the Diana Dialogues and the HK Day & Night Tour -will provide a crash course for all things Diana & Diana+!

Of course, a HUGE party to bring all of the Lomographers together and neatly wrap up the whole thing.

More details will be posted soon. If you plan to be in Hong Kong during this time, then please save the date and join the good times!