Speaking of plastic camera photography...

Those crazy hipster kids, Meg and Jack White from the White Stripes have joined up with the LOMOGRAPHY website which is now selling "limited edition" sets of the Meg White Diana camera and Jack White Holga.  The Meg White version comes with a "ring flash", funky spiral red color filter, fancy packaging, and a photo book of Diana images.  All for $180.00.  If this sounds like way too much money for the Chinese camera that sold for about $5.00 in the 60's you're probably right.  But I guess that is the cost of having company with rich rock stars....

The website is currently selling new, "plain jane" Diana's for $50.00.  And no...the optics aren't any better on the more expensive camera.  If you are looking for optical quality, then you simply don't understand the zen of plastic cameras.

I've always been partial to the Diana instead of the Holga.  The Holga almost seems too "sharp" to me.  If you find an original Diana for sale, make sure that it will take 120 film, since many were manufactured to take 620 film which is no longer produced.  For you digital people who vowed never to shoot with film again, there is always the Lens Baby, which unfortunately is getting more expensive and sharper which goes against everything I love about plastic cameras.