Come on weather!

It's so frustrating not to have anything new to add here. The winter in Michigan has been cold- as always. When it gets warmer I'm gonna dust off the old developer and stop bath and get some negatives scanned.

I promise!

First Holga Pic

Here is the first holga effort of mine to make it to the internet. This series was taken outside my condo, the front light, and then amy looking in the window , then myself. It was a complete guess on advancing the film and this was only the second roll I took, the first didn't come out great, but we'll see what I can do on photoshop.

To the simple holga film I added hints of color, just to be fun.

Unfortunately, I ruined my last roll of 120 film and am not ready to start using 35 mm. I'll have to run to the store to get more but I'll get some more up here as they become available.

Click on the image for a full sized version.

The results

I developed roll three last night and suffice to say I was dissapopinted. My disappointment lie not with my holga but in my self as I think I left the lens cover on for the last 10 pictures.

I can't confirm it but I can't think of another reason why 10/16ths of the roll was simply not exposed. The shutter worked fine.

The first two rolls, while yileding actual images, were a little disappointing because of the lack of contrast. They seemed to be over-exposed although it might have been the negatives being underdevloped. Its hard to guage 68 degrees with your finger from the tap in a condo.

The good news was that with the increased film developer time the 6 images that were taken actually seem to look nice. I haven't been able to scan them in yet so I can upload them but they had much more contrast and good balance between blacks and white.

I may go ahead and take some more tonight but sense I am going out to Sidetracks in Ypsilanti I might not have enough time to develop the film. We'll see...I'll let you know.

And keep me posted on your experiences, I'd love to hear 'em.

My first Holga

I have to begin by thanking Mike Myers, and the Krappy Kamera club. They have introduced me to a great new toy; the Holga.

After attending a show of toy camera prints and listening in on a discussion of the history of The Diana and Holga cameras, I had to go get one.

The next day I went to Big Georges in Ann Arbor, excited as could be. I bought a new Holga camera, developer, stop bath, fixer, fixer remover, bottles canister, etc; everything I needed to start.

Its now two days later. I have been impressed with the results. The fact that there were images on the first roll of film was enough to impress me. I now have negatives hanging up everywhere but no scanner to input them.

I've read that no two holgas are alike. It appears that mine doesn't create much of a vignette, nor, from what I can tell, fall off focus. I suppose that is a little disappointing but that is no problem. Its been funning playing with multiple exposures and the bulb shutter setting. Hopefully I will be able to put up some images once I get the negatives copied electronically.

I'd love to hear your Holga stories or any advice you have so please leave a comment or email me.

There is a link to a great Holga Modification site on the right side.