Holga - Flying Pics

**A quick reminder for those who know and for those who don't **

As well as shooting Digital, I every now and again shoot film. However, I'm not a great fan of carrying yet another heavy and big camera again - I want a camera that's a bit of fun ... and odd results.

So what's a Holga (this is a bigger subject - I'll address it in A Technocrat thingy)?

In basic terms, its a plastic camera, with a plastic lens and a very small amount of metal for the shutter. They're badly made enough that the following facts are accepted as "truth"

- Sharpness? What this odd concept?
- Light leaks? Yes well if you don't seal yours with tape, what do you expect is going to happen?
- Multiexposure? Comes with the territory
- f8 or f13? Does it matter? We're all friends here...
- Exposure - 1/100. Well a bit more.. or a bit less. We're not quite sure
- Vingeretting - Why do you want sharp corners anyway?
- 120 Film? Why would anyone want to use 35mm film...


All these things may sound like its a recipe for disaster.

But if you handle it right, and experiment, you start to get very interesting results...

I tend to use mine as a honing tool for my other work - I find that it makes me stop and think a lot more about composition and if I do need that shot.

Anyhoo onto the images... all shot between Manchester (UK) and Chicago (Bunny O'Hell)

Techie notes:
Holga 120N, f13, Fujifilm Neopan 400/C41 process
Scanned in using a HP 7690