Lodigimo Retro Digital Diana Camera Black & Silver

Not much fun as I had hoped. I was hoping for a digital Holga. Instead I wound up with a crappy cell phone camera in a "big" cheap plastic case. For fun photos, it's okay (if you consider its many minuses), but don't make this your only digital camera -- you will be very disappointed, otherwise. This is a pretty "slow" camera, too. Slow to take the photo and slow to save the photo to the SD card. That can actually make for interesting results if you move the camera when you press the shutter button. Build quality is not very high; I doubt this thing would survive even a short drop.

I like toy digital cameras. I have quite a few but this is my favorite because it has a lot of special effects other than just b&w and sepia. How about. IR. Its all plastic and light no magnesium housing. Don't drop it.its easy to useand has English manual. You can add small wideangle and fisheye lenses to it by magnetic rings from photo warehouse. Great people. I like this so much I am buying another one. No I don't work for photo warehouse. This camera has alittle more size to itlike a canon photoshot a1400 which I like. Buy it. Its a lot of fun. Lawrence

I expected a lo-fi toy digital camera, but the quality is lower than I expected. The menu is confusing and hard to navigate, especially if you have bigger hands such as myself. Images almost always come out blurry, It needs to be on a flat surface to not have a blur to it. I paid $40 for this, and I think that was too much.

I had hoped the images from this camera were going to more closely resemble those of the the plastic toy film cameras which are such cult favorites. While the outward appearance of the camera body is definitely retro, the images are simply low resolution files lacking the "character" of those from either a Diana or Holga analogue camera.

This is a camera for "toy" camera enthusiasts. It claims to digitally recreate the look of the old 1960's plastic toy camera that was often used as carnival prizes, etc. The original was never seriously meant to be used, but became famous as an "art" camera. Do a search and you'll find a lot more about it.Basically, somebody recreated in miniature the Diana design, dropped in an old 2 MP "COACH" (camera on a chip) and a simple plastic lens. I doubt if the face recognition works, as the lens does not focus!The camera is fragile...just brittle plastic. Do NOT use the included strap, which looks like the cheap ribbon used with 3rd prize medals at a county fair. There is also NO lens cap, which would have been nice to have.Sadly, the one error all of these Diana wannabees miss is that the original lens was made from non-optical non-quality styrene plastic. It was the same wavy stuff that windshields of model cars were made from, or the little magnifying glasses that used to come in Cracker Jack boxes (before concerns about choking!).I would like to see someone make this camera with a couple of lenses that would screw into place: one optical plastic and one the original wavy stuff!Still fun to use! I'll probably include it as an illustration in my 3rd edition of my "How To Use The Digital Camera You Just Bought" book!