From the course: The Traveling Photographer: Paris

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Shooting with a Diana plastic lens

Shooting with a Diana plastic lens

From the course: The Traveling Photographer: Paris

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Shooting with a Diana plastic lens

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- So I've been to Paris several times, and I've made a lot of the same kinds of pictures. To me Paris is absolutely gorgeous but with a patina of grunge to it. I wanted to shoot some pictures that were the way I remembered Paris, maybe a little bit rose-colored glasses, a little bit squinty, as opposed to just the way I experience it when I'm there. What I've done is to mount a plastic lens to my camera. This is a Diana 38 millimeter plastic lens. It's adapted for Nikon, and then through that I run through a Nikon to Fuji adaptor. With that little frankenstein contraption I can then mount it onto my Fuji XT1, which conveniently has a waist level fold out finder, so I don't even have to look through the camera. Let's take a look at what that does. I'm shooting through a cheap piece of plastic. It's like 25 bucks, really, it's nothing. Here is the view right outside of our apartment window, shot through actual nice glass. This is my $400 normal lens from Fuji. Here it is through the $25…

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