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June 17, 2004
Holga Madness
My Holga camera arrived today. I immediately loaded it with film (it came with a roll) and went out in the yard to take some pictures. I have to take about four more before the roll is used up, and I can't wait.
This means I need to get my act together and buy some more 120mm film.
In other camera-ish news, I also bought some plywood to make a couple of pinhole cameras. I have done some calculations and I want to make a 4x5 wide angle camera and an 8x10 normal angle camera. I'd like to get my hands on an 8x10 film holder before I start building that camera, so I've been scoping out eBay for bargains, which are few and far between. For making the camera body itself, I just need to get the table saw set up so it will cut a squared line against the fence.
And speaking of fixing the table saw fence, my buddy Bob and I are building Noel a coffee counter. This involves a great deal more than I could ever have imagined, but we have the materials and all we need to do is cut things and then assemble them, hopefully doing so this weekend. Noel's going to be very busy with his Morris team's ale, so I should have plenty of time. I'm not expected to attend anything until Sunday night, though I may go pick somebody up tomorrow afternoon at the airport, which might be an excellent chance to stop by New Lab and drop off film to be developed, and to swing by Photo Supply for film. I also have to go out to City College to send a transcript to Calpoly, so it's going to be a busy day tomorrow.
So what's with the Holga, anyway? Holga cameras are crappy plastic Soviet-era cameras, about as cheap and awful as you can get. They have light leaks, they have vignetting on the images, they are blurry (plastic lens), they are cantankerous, they are as minimally cameralike as possible while still maintaining the appearance of cameraness. I've gotten really interested in old technologies, and unreliable photographing methods, so it seemed like a good match. I want to try cross-processing (having print film processed in slide film chemicals, or vice versa) and just taking weird random pictures and seeing what happens.
When I have developed images, I will post them, of course.
Posted by ayse on 06/17/04 at 7:21 PM