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What is a Holga…
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I love the look, but I had one and hated the film advance, accidental double exposures and overlapping frames. I’m on the lookout for a Holgaesque camera with better film advance.
Fintan wrote:
I love the look, but I had one and hated the film advance, accidental double exposures and overlapping frames. I’m on the lookout for a Holgaesque camera with better film advance.
But that’s the joy of Holga’s…the unexpected. If you want something with better film advance…you can just get a holga mod lense for your Canon…but that’s techincally cheating…then again, Holga camera’s are just something that you’ll love or loath.
As for overlapping…I find it a joy…
This site gives a good intro to the Holga http://www.squarefrog.co.uk/holga/.
Fintan wrote:
I love the look, but I had one and hated the film advance, accidental double exposures and overlapping frames. I’m on the lookout for a Holgaesque camera with better film advance.
Fintan, I think you are missing the point of a cheap plastic camera made with absolutely no quality control.
By the way, usually over lapping frames (that are not done on purpose) are due to the frame indicator being set for 16 frames instead of 12 when using either no mask or a 6×6 mask.
I love my Holgas (I have two) and I love the anticipation that comes with not knowing what you are going to get back from the lab or out of the tank.
Dave and Johnny, they work well for you guys no doubt. Maybe I am missing the point as you say. Personally I would just like half the chaos, I dont mean to be dissing your weapon of choice :D
Just not seeing it with the dogs Johnny.
The blue one is a bit more successful,
but if serendipity means a happy accident,
then the doggie pic is more like,
well, just an accident.Guess I’m too much of a control freak, huh-
j
Kind of hooked on the Holga at the moment. They are light cheap and easy to use. You can throw one in your bag and take it out if the subject suits. However must say it took me a year to get the kind of results i like. The reason i use it is I have always wanted to create images with an impression of movement and blur and the Holga goes some way to doing this. I also love the vignetting that gives those dark corners.
Remember they only cost about $20 You can buy them from Hong Kong on E-bay and they use 120 film.
There is about 25 images from the Holga on my blog below . There are also links to sites of other users.
Here are some recent posts.
jb7 wrote:
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but if serendipity means a happy accident,
then the doggie pic is more like,
well, just an accident…j
Well you see that’s the fun that is the Holga…IS that certain sense of unexpectancy. Alot of people are conforming to this way of doing photography that is digital, that everything has to be perfect every time. With Holga’s you just throw that out the window, and getting a good result from a shoot from a Holga is….ALOT more demanding as a photographer than shooting digital.
And to people like Eddie, who now gets the results that he likes due to practise if it, I take off my hat. Anyone can take a digital shot (to a certain point) but being able to control the unexpected that is the Holga….well hat’s off.
Good shots Eddie,
like them all-Do they take much enlargement?
I can see that even at this low level of enlargement,
the area of acceptable (like they say in the textbooks for professional photography) sharpness
is quite close to the center.I see that for all the talk of light leaks,
it seems you mostly prefer to tape them up-
or maybe you have a good one?And regarding the vignetting,
you can get a centre spot filter for about ?300 that’ll fix that:D
I actually don’t much care how an image is produced,
the important thing is the image.
But I do like a big image,
and prefer not to see the technology get in the way-I think I might like these images more if they were taken on an old Rollei or Yashicamat-
though obviously couldn’t say for definite without seeing side by side examples.Considering how much you’re spending on film and processing,
the extra investment in equipment can’t be that much;
old tlr’s can be had quite cheap on ebayAnyway, I know thats not the point,
and I don’t want to start an argument,
as I said, really like your images,
but the moulded lens is maybe not a direction I could see myself going personally-j
I thought I’d add in a few of my own Holga images here.
Imperfect? Yes but the camera is a lot of fun nonetheless.
jb7 wrote:
Good shots Eddie,
like them all-Do they take much enlargement?
I can see that even at this low level of enlargement,
the area of acceptable (like they say in the textbooks for professional photography) sharpness
is quite close to the center.I see that for all the talk of light leaks,
it seems you mostly prefer to tape them up-
or maybe you have a good one?And regarding the vignetting,
you can get a centre spot filter for about ?300 that’ll fix thatj
I have only blown them up to 9*9 inches and they print really well. A Dublin based photographer Dominic Turner does colour toy work and i have seen them blown up to beyond 20*16 inches . They were on display in The Front lounge in Parliament street and they sold like hot cakes. Five and more sales per print, they were great images.
As regards lighleaks i do tape the Holga up well, prefer images without lightleaks.
I think I have seen Dominic’s work,
and you’re right,
they do look pretty fab-
up to about 20×20, I think-Its all about the image really-
j
…is something that everyone should own in my opinion.
Hey Eddie and davedunne, make sure you repost some of those images for all to see :D
JohnnyMcM – I bet you have loads hidden somewhere too that need to be shared.Later
MarkHuh? You mean more holga shots?
The majority of the shots that I take I used 120 Kodak Porta VC 400, which I love cos of the vibrant colours. Tried using the NC and…well, just didn’t like it as much. Shooting a roll of Ilford XP2 tomorrow and will throw in for an hour develop to see how it turns out.
Well here’s a whole bunch of holga shots then…posting a few up now…mainly cos I don’t want to come back in a few days and post up the same ones by accident etc…
Photo beside my bus-stop…
One of my first shots also outside Cineworld…
Was on shoot working with digital and decided to bring my Holga along…this came off first roll…
Shot in town…
Portrait shot of friend in St.Stephens Green…
A shot with the 6×4.5 holder instead of the 6×6…
Another one from that shoot, which is a cross processed slide shot taken with the Holga…
Inside shot the other week…
And another one in St.Stephen’s Green Park…
And this would be my holga….taken with 10D
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