Got Lomography’s Diana Multi-Pinhole Operator Camera a few weeks ago. While I have used the pinhole functionality on my Diana F+ a few times, I never really took the time to appreciate it. Pinhole cameras (or, camerae obscurae ) have a huge depth of field and lack the distortions that a lens will cause. For such a primitive design they produce incredibly sharp images.

As the name implies, the Multi-Pinhole Diana has not one but up to three pinholes that a user can use. These slight distances produce double and triple-vision style images:

I didn’t get it to take pinhole shots though.

I got it to put a contact lens in front of it. I haven’t found anyone else who has tried to do this before. I reused an old daily contact lens (-3.00 for nearsightedness). The image has become softened, reminiscent of the blurriness of a plastic camera. But, there isn’t the vignetting or shallow depth of field of my Diana F+. Here, the image is equally soft and. appears undistorted (presumably as the contact lens doesn’t have a barrel).