Lomography Diana Mini 35mm Point and Shoot Film Camera

Its such a small camera, that its easy to carry around. You can easily wear it around your neck while hiking or walking, or just as easily throw it in a small pack or purse.
While I do a lot of my photography in 120 format, this camera takes 35mm and that makes it so much easier to process.
The camera can switch between a half-frame format and square photos. That means you can take up to 72 photos on an otherwise 36 frame roll of film if you stick with the 1/2 frame format. Which I interpret as a licence to be as experimental as I like, because I'm not really wasting a ton of film.
I also like that you can switch from cloudy to sunny apertures, and there is a bulb function that allows for LONG exposures. And those functions truly work-- I've taken 5 hour exposure shots of star trails and they are surprisingly crisp for a plastic lens.
The only thing I have to say as a warning is that it may take the first roll to really figure out the distances, and to remember to make sure that the settings are in the right places before the shutter clicks. (Which is a sound I just love!)
I now have 2 of these cameras, one for color film, and one for another option. It truly is a fun camera to carry around and to capture your life.

RANT: I took three rolls the first day I got the camera and I LOVE the way my pictures came out. Yes, it's not digital and yes, you have to wait for your pictures to be developed *gasp*, but we live in a world with too much instant gratification and a little patience will do us all some good. I had a couple that came out like "normal" shots and they're are kind of a nice surprise. Overall, they have a lot of character and getting them to be in focus is tougher than other cameras I've used (also have a RICOH from the 1950's and a Mercury from the 1920's - that thing is a BEAST to use) but that's really the whole point, isn't it? We live in an imperfect world and 20 megapixel, perfectly framed, focused and color-corrected photos don't really represent most of our lives.

I have bought this camera for my daughter. She is fond of using old film camera in the digital era.
This Diana Mini is excellent. But for beginners it should have if only short user manual.

i love that it even came with fresh film!i love the color and it makes me look cooler than you. Its size is very flattering unlike your digital camera. Did i mention that this camera makes me look cooler than you!

I adore this camera it lets you do so many things for instance tow frames in one shot and overlapping it lets a normal 36 roll becone 72.