The Carnival is over

For many years, whenever I go back to Sao Paulo I always drive by few sites where they keep discarded carnival floats,  I've always thought that one day I could stop by... walk around and take some photographs.


So last year I finally decided to do...  and there I met Jose Carlos (the guy on the picture), which after chatting for a few minutes he kindly gave me permission to photograph the area. He explained me that he looks after the site and work as well on recycling the puppets' structure to be used on the following carnival, in fact he was working on this year's one that it's gone.

I had my Debonair Diana Clone loaded with some Fuji Astia and my Holga with some Fuji Neopan, unfortunately the heat melt the sponge inside my Holga and I had all the films really fat, in addtion to that I didn't compensate enough for the red filter I was using and as a result quite few shots came underexposed with too much light leak.

Debonair Diana Clone

The Debonair camera differs almost nothing from any ordinary Diana camera, there are few models around and the changes are mostly in design. 

The model above was “improved” with the addition of the focus ring outside the barrel so you can rotate the lens just like an Slr.

Of course you won't get to see the focus on the viewfinder but instead you have to look at the ring to check the distance, I found it easier and faster to shoot since you don't have to turn the camera to check the distance scale,  just like the Holga. The old focus scale was replaced by a fake selenium meter around the lens. 

The winding knob matches with the camera's colour instead of the usual black.

The  resulting images are exactly what you would expect from a Diana clone camera...

Fomapan 100 - Rodinal 1:100 1 hour stand development.

Fuji Sensia 100 ISO