Nevermind this lousy Photoshopped attempt I did below. Hehehe. It’s just that this little thing I did to my E-P1 that somehow remind me of the Stormtroopers and I couldn’t help but put my very lousy Photoshop skills to use … just to amuse myself.
So what the hell did I do to my E-P1? After an attempt at making a Diana lens for it (which works pretty well, pending more test shots), I decided to try using my Lomo Colorsplash flash on it. Bad news. It doesn’t fire. Apparently I was told that only certain units of the Colorsplash flash works on digital cameras. Huh? Anyway … I was a little disappointed until I thought of something else. How about a cool white Diana F+ flash on the E-P1? That will be a perfect combo if it ever can work! First attempt a couple of days ago failed. The E-P1 doesn’t seem to fire the Diana F+ flash (of course mounted using the hotshoe adapter that came with the flash).
I thought of trying it again this evening but this time, I mount the hotshoe adapter the other way round (since there doesn’t seem to be anything in the instruction that says which side should face the front). Yeah … I was risking my sexy E-P1 but hey … someone’s gotta do the dirty job of trying it. Swiched on the camera … press the shutter release button … *flash*. What? Hey it works!!!! The E-P1 can now trigger the sexy white Diana F+ flash!!!
E-P1, white Diana F+ flash & the Lensbaby Composer
E-P1, white Diana F+ flash (with green color gel) & the Lensbaby Composer
E-P1, white Diana F+ flash & the 17mm pancake lens
Sexy ain’t it? The cool flash makes the E-P1 look more retro than ever! Yipeee! The flash is from the glow-in-the-dark ‘GLOW’ version of the Diana F+ camera. The other one that comes with white flash is the limited edition Colette version of the camera. I’ve not seen a white flash sold separately in the online Lomography store though.
So does it work fine? Definitely! I’ve not much time to do many test shots but here are a few that I took using the green color gel for the flash (to get … ermmm … a cross processed look). I wanted to get a toy camera look from the photos, so I used the plastic lens on the Composer for these.
Fitzand’s giraffe got the honour to be my first test shot model …
Trying out the flash in Art Filter mode (using Pinhole effect). With the Lensbaby and color flash, the pinhole effect with all the vignetting looks way cooler.
Double exposure mode also is pretty fun! Too bad I was too lazy to change the color gel on the flash. I think using two colors for the two exposures will give some wild crazy cool results.
Tada~ That’s it! A new fun combo that I can have fun with this weekend. Of course it will never take the place of my Diana cameras or any other ‘toy’ cameras but at least I’ve discovered another fun thing to do with my E-P1.
That is just crazy!! You are mixing high end components with low end ones. Love it! Quite creative
Ndroo, that is one sexy camera with the Diana Flash and the Lensbaby. That pic had me drooling.
wat a combination. /faint
crazy!!!!! u r crazy!!!!! poison!!!! u r poison!!!!! lol
Need. To. Stop. Visiting. Here. till i get my Pen.. Arghhh!!
your experiments never cease to entertain and amaze me.
awesomesauce!
@Anonymous : Hahahaha! Don’t get over excited.
@Rachel : Thanks. Well this ain’t really an experiment … just my itchy fingers needed something to play with.
SUper BLING with the white Diana flash man..Interesting experiment indeed!
sexy gila…!!!
bei tahan leh, uncle..
Another reason to get the ep-1!
@Zig Ziggler : Thanks
@techstg : LOL!!!
@cyanwater : What are you waiting for then? 😀
hey. where did you buy the diana white flash. I really want it for my diana f+ edelweiss. i only found diana flash unit in black and blue colours.
please tell me, where did you buy that.
@Anwar : I got my white flash together with one of the white Diana F+ camera. I didn’t buy it separately. I have no idea if Lomography sells the white ones separately. So far I haven’t seen it.
thanks! big help!
@Anwar : You are welcome. Sorry I wasn’t of much help there. Maybe you can write to Lomography and see if they can sell you a white one.
okay. thanks. loving the E-p1 though. nice!
hey dude, I’ve just been trying out my Diana F+ Flash onto my E-P1, the photos i get are pretty cool, especially with double exposure and am quite happy with it overall, but the only annoying bit is changing the color gels. The Lomo Colorsplash Flash seems more convenient more switching colours, but do you know if the results are better? cheers
@Wayne : Hahaha! Glad you are loving it. Yeah the Colorsplash flash is way easier to switchcolors but only 4 colors at a time (in the rotating wheel).
Hi Andrew
I am trying to get the Diana F+ flash to work on my E-P1
What setting in the camera did you get to make it work, please tell me, please please please….?
Thank you
Ta
@Ta : Try mounting the hotshot adapter the other way round. The back becomes the front and the front becomes the back. Of course the flash is still mounted the normal way. That solved my problem. Do let us know the outcome ok?
Thanks Andrew…Yep I got it to work, I asked mijonju as well he said not to go more than 1/300 so I tried 1/100. Now I just had to find a party to go to. 😉
Have you tried this Toy Lens http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2010/12/31/slr-magic-toy-lens-for-micro-43-fun-fun-fun/ it’s cool
I got some satisfying results… Much more like ‘toy camera’ than the LBs
Check this
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ta-king/sets/72157626018161603/with/5486067057/
Ta
@Ta : Glad you got it to work! Cool! As for the the Toy Lens … damn!!! It sure looks fun! Damn! I’m in trouble (again)! I’m eating film canisters … trying to save up for an X100 and now you show me this??? 🙁
Hahaha Serves you right Andrew…You showed me millions of things before and I have been just eating the lids of the film canisters that you ate…….(and spit the lids out!)
hahaha
@Ta : Gosh. That toy lens ain’t cheap. Grrrr!!!! Looks real fun though. Damn!
Andrew, use it together with square format , Pinhole Art Filter and the Diana flash…So very cool.
Go go go 😉
@Ta : Stop it!!! Arghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!