Looking for Answers about Lomography Diana + Dreamer Camera?

You don't personally need a scanner, lots of labs have specialized film scanners and they will scan the film for you and put the pictures on a disk. Always better to develop and scan them yourself but if you can't find a good lab.

This is not a digital camera, so you have to get the photos developed and then scan them into your computer.

You can use any 120mm film. Doesn't have to be lomography film. For film speed use anything between 100-400 outside during the day. At night and indoors you will probably need a flash even with 800 film. I have 1600 film but I haven't tried it yet. It might work indoors with out a flash

I would recommended any other brand but Lomography for film. ASA indicates the sensitivity of the film to light. The higher the ASA, the more sensitive meaning it would be better for night shots. 800ASA is very high and if you were to shoot with that during a sunny day your shots would be over exposed. 100ASA is low and you would only be able to shoot daytime shots with it. Depends mostly on what your trying to capture and when.

Holgas and Dianas are hard to get "good" pictures with if you're used to SLR cameras. They have plastic lenses and light leaks and all sorts of quirks but thats what makes them fun and interesting. So it depends on what you call a good picture and if you're doing everything correctly.

I develop 35mm, 120mm, 4x5 and 8x10 film at my schools lab. All with the same chemicals, but only black and white. For color I take it to a specialized lab. So as long as you have the correct chemistry you can develop the film yourself, but if you don't find a lab.

Once you develop the film or get it developed at a lab you need to scan the film, but most people don't have scanners that scan film very well. Ask the lab to do it and put them on a cd.

No. it takes 120 film, so you'd have to go to a specialty film shop, not Walgreens or something. I would do a google search for the closest one near your town. And it is quite pricey.

Unfortunately no :(

Yeah, it's the diana f+, just a different color.

no, the camera does not come with film, luckily the film for this camera is pretty cheap. Its $24 and you would get 36 pictures. (its a 3 pack and each roll has 12 pictures) (only uses 120mm film)

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If you take care of it, it should last a pretty long time. It's kinda scary at first because it feels cheap because it's plastic, but the design is so simple it's pretty impossible to break unless you try to. Fewer parts means fewer things can go wrong.

To get a square image a roll of film is 12 shots. If you change the setting you can get a smaller, rectangle image. I recommend the former, but to each their own.