Holga
1. The Girlfriend (who is a different person from the last time I mentioned her) is a keen photographer, in fact, she was a wedding photographer a few years ago. She quit doing that because shooting weddings is a dull, dull gig.
2. But getting back to the point, The Girlfriend is a keen photographer, of the analogue kind. These days she doesn’t shoot regular cameras, she prefers the more esoteric types, and has developed quite the collection of Lomo cameras. They’re pretty good fun, almost completely lacking in controls, it’s the ultimate point and shoot.
3. Anyway, for my birthday she bought me a Holga, a chinese made toy camera that shoots 120 roll film and literally looks and built like a toy:
4. It’s great fun, and shoots photos like this:
5. It’s way awesome, the lens only focuses in the middle, everything else is distorted and it vignettes like a fisheye. There are even mods that let you mount a Holga lens on a digital SLR, but the mods require you to hold the lens to the body, and that’s just a bit too crude. The flash is bloody terrible too, but such awesome fun to play with. I’ve got it loaded up with some Kodak TMax B&W film, gonna play with it a bit more to get the hang of it. Makes me want a medium format camera all the more!
- Posted in Photography, RightBrain on the 14.05.2007 @ 6:00:25 PM, Permanent Link
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