A cheap Diana...

Diana cameras are not so hard to find but they can be expensive on the internet. I didn't want to pay $50-100 for a plastic toy camera. After all, I had owned one when I was 12 years old and it had only costed about $1 worth of lead pellets for the air gun at the local fair. Okay, that was a long time ago but still... A couple of weeks ago I unexpectedly ran into one of these on the sunday flea market and the seller had no idea that Dianas usually change owners for higher prices than what he wanted for it. On a clear and sunny day I loaded it with a roll of Fuji Acros 100 and headed for Brussels. Needless to say that this crappy plastic camera did not go unnoticed and that I felt slightly uncomfortable by the odd looks from the tourists with their newest digicams and phonecams. Anyway, here is a picture of the Atomium - one of the few monuments left of the Brussels 1958 world fair. The spheres were just being fitted with new aluminum plates.