Diana+ Splitzer
Multiple image slicing accessory for the Diana+ & Diana F+ cameras
With a Diana+ in hand, it’s nice to take a straight-off, one-shot image of your favorite person, animal, or thing. But what about going past that large, single full-frame? How about diving into halves and quarters? What about dictating exactly what appears on your photo – and exactly where it appears? Take that image in front of your face and slice it straight down the middle.
Slap it onto the right side of your image, and then take a breath. What do you want on the left? That’s the beauty – the choice is yours! You no longer just take the shots, you “call” them too!
Using the Splitzer is easy! Slip it onto the top of your Diana+ or Diana F+ lens and twist the blades with your fingers. All you have to do is keep track of what parts of the image you’ve shot. OR NOT: we often like to just move the blades around a bit haphazardly to see what comes out later on.
By slicing and dicing your photos, you can re-combine them to make something entirely new. Or tell a story. Or just do something totally random and insane – in the hopes that the result is cool and pleasing. Don’t worry – it probably will be, but you might want to shoot it a few times to be sure.
With the Splizter, you’ll never look at a Diana+ image as a single whole again. Instead, you’ll truly see it as the “sum of its parts” – which are happily decided upon and placed by you. Certain parts of certain image fragments bleed into one another for unpredictable multiple-exposed portions. But that's just all part of the fun - isn't it?
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• You don't have to fill in every portion of the shot every time. There's nothing wrong with shooting half and leaving the other half a dark, mysterious sea of black.
• Toss in a flash every now and then. Nothing says "hell yes" like a half-flashed, and half-naturally-shot nighttime exposure.
• Don't get stuck in a rut. It's awesome to be totally (& pleasantly) shocked by your latest set of prints from the lab. Keep changing the formula! With the Splitzer, your multiple-exposure opportunities are basically endless.
• Shooting lots of double-exposures in the daytime will wash out your image. Maybe you don't want this. Or maybe this is that exact dose of random lo-fi that you're looking for. Give it a try either way.
• Never before have you been given total control over what is pictured on your lomograph. Take advantage of this! Use the Splitzer to tell a story or relate unrelated things on one single print.
• Want to get really random? Forget the multiple exposure switch altogether. Shoot a full roll of images – changing the Splitzer's position each time. Later on that day, the following day, next month or year, or whatever – reload the film and shoot it again; varying the Splitzer's position for each shot. You'll have NO idea of what the hell will be on your pictures but it's guaranteed to be an extremely good time – and pretty much guaranteed to get you at least a handful of absolutely mindblowing images.