Time for a theme in my run up to the dreaded advent calendar. I've rattled on about Holga's in the past (a full explaination is below).
For this week I'm dedicating a lot of the blogs to Holga's and pictures from them
(there might be some repeats for which I apolgise - Mostly new content though!)
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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?
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holga for a better explaination, but this is my version
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.
Techie notes:
Holga 120N, f13, Fujifilm Provia 100
Scanned in using a HP 7690
