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What is a Holga…
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Jay King wrote:
I bought a Holga 120FN from China on ebay about a week ago now… Not to be wishing the days away but… they’re going so bloody slow! Seems like it will never get here!! :-/
Haha it just arrived this morning! Funny!
It’s sooo geeky and clunky :-) Love it!
Mystery solved, thats what you were sussing out the 120 film for. I bought most of m cameras from Hong Kong . Generally postage takes about two weeks for larger items. See it arrived, dont they package them well. Best of luck with it.
Eddie wrote:
Mystery solved, thats what you were sussing out the 120 film for. I bought most of m cameras from Hong Kong . Generally postage takes about two weeks for larger items. See it arrived, dont they package them well. Best of luck with it.
Cheers Eddie,
And yep! that’s what the 120 film was for alright!! I’ve ordered 10 rolls from 7dayshop… and just bought a couple in Gunn’s to get me started! I used the first roll in about 2hrs… just experimenting really. The second is about to be loaded and used just as fast :) What great fun!Yeah it was from Honk Kong… wrapped nice and neat indeed – I’ve always loved how the Asian culture involves great attention to detail and presentation. Amazing.
Jay…the secret to a holga is perserverance. For the first few rolls, don’t worry if it seems it’s not going right for you. It does take some getting used to, and in my opinion is actually alot harder to get a great shot then other SLR’s. But once you do it’s WELL worth it. And much to everyone’s thinking, it’s not a simple point and click camera, there’s alot more to it than that. Good luck
Cheers Johhny… and you’re right – I’m not expecting much from the first couple of rolls. The first roll I shot was really just for testing the differences between the settings etc. I even wrote down what I did/used for each shot :)
Yeah there’s more to it than just point and shoot alright… I mean for one… the viewfinder is more or less useless lol!!
thanks again… looking forward to lot’s of hit n miss shots! (more miss then hit for the moment anyway!!)
Ps. two things….
1. There’s only one aperture that being f.13
2. Tape up the bottom bulb switch under the lense. Set it to N and you’ll be fine (unless you want bulb)JohnnyMcMillan wrote:
Ps. two things….
1. There’s only one aperture that being f.13
2. Tape up the bottom bulb switch under the lense. Set it to N and you’ll be fine (unless you want bulb)Thanks for the tips… I heard before about the bulb switch – and looking at it myself it does seem verrrry easy to do accidentally!
Well I just handed in my first two rolls – 2x Ilford plus 400… and to get them devoloped and printed (in Gunn’s) it will be Tuesday – 6 days from now! Here’s me hoping that it would be tomorrow or even Friday! Ah well… another thing I learned today :p
What’s the cost likely to be? Should have asked at the counter I guess…
Not great advice considering you have purchased the film already but Neopan 400 has larger numbers for winding on the film. Mark the focus settings 3ft 6ft 20ft 30ft on the lens, it may be helpful. I use the 3ft for close-ups a lot and have a rough measure using my arm to gauge 3ft from the subject. I also have my camera taped up as I like to use it in strong sunlight shooting into the sun. Its kept it in a camera bag and only take it out when I am ready to shoot to avoid fogging and unwanted lightleaks.
Finaly gave in I had to have one (not really i just really wanted one)
I have only done a small amount of film photography .
Its nice every once in a while to get away from digital and
I thougt the holga was the perfect camera to do it with. :D!S-Man! wrote:
Finaly gave in I had to have one (not really i just really wanted one)
I have only done a small amount of film photography .
Its nice every once in a while to get away from digital and
I thougt the holga was the perfect camera to do it with. :DThey are such a light camera, just stick it in the camera bag and use it when the opportunity arises. Its been said before that it takes a while to tune into the subjects it suits most. Choose your subjects carefully until you get the hang of it. Best of luck with it.
Also bit of advice…some people tape up the camera…I don’t but I mainly do night work with it, but what I do which I would advise folks is to stick two strips of velcro to the sides, so if you drop it, it won’t open…these things happen…
Thanks for the advice guys have heard of the velcro thing on squarefrog good idea.
:D :D :DJohnny was too lazy to actually go home to use a scanner so Johnny instead photographed the neg, inverted it in photoshop, had a coffee, some Petits Filous and voila…
That actually works????
Deadly.
So if I scanned em on my scanner then used photoshop to invert em would that work???
got it it only took three days wasnt expecting
I went with the 120s
cant wait to get some film and start shooting :D
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