I have been really busy with work for a while now and today was one of the first days where I just had some alone time and my girl was having a really lazy one sleeping on the couch so I decided to take my camera and Diana+ 38mm Plastic Lens for a walk to shoot some photos of the sky by the river. These are those.

It was my birthday this week and my misses got me the Diana F+ Lens Adaptor for my Baby along with the Diana+ 38mm Plastic Lens which is super cool because I have wanted the kit for ages.

Today I ran out to meet her for a quick lunch and decided to give it the first test although the sky was super boring so I only really took a few shots. I battle to shoot if it just looks crap. Haha. This is one that I kind of like of Southwark Cathedral. I found it quite difficult to see if the image was in focus or not but I guess that is the joys of shooting with plastic. The aperture for the lens is locked on F3.5 and this images was taken at 1/1000th at ISO800 to give it a bit of grain although you cannot really see that in this low res photo.

The image is straight from my camera without processing or editing and just a quick resize and watermark. Cannot wait to use this on a sunny day and experiment with some Profoto Lighting.

As most of you will know I have been a big fan of messing around with old vintage cameras as well as lomo cameras to create different images that are really hard to duplicate with the best technology … raw images if you will.

Anyway, I have always wished that I could use the lomo format or atleast produce similar images with my D3 but only now just found out that you can purchase an F-Mount kit for Nikon and Canon cameras so that you can mount the Diana range of plastic lenses with ease. I haven’t yet used the system but am really considering it and wondered if anyone else has explored this system and if you had any thoughts. If not, that’s alright too, keep posted and I will add a few of the images as soon as I have shot some. I know I am probably going to buy it soon.

Other than that, I hope you are all well. Marcus