Sunday, 18 January 2009

Holga :o



Holga's are great cameras, i wont bore you with why or the history of them but look it up!

So a holga is a medium format plastic camera, medium format relates to 6x6 or 6x4.5 sized negs.


f.10 3 seconds 125iso fp4

So i'm basically practicing with the holga on a night out with some fp4 film loaded in when i see some fire swingers bla bla bla theirs the picture.

Anyways the following night i load some colour film in at a night club and start shooting! All is going well and i charge the flash to take another image and the back drops off! Now i expected this, the back of a holga is held togeather by cheap clips and when you buy a holga they even ship it with electric tape to hold it togeather!

Right so that was abit rubbish so i'm looking of better ways to hold my holga together when i stumble upon a camera hacking community known as Go Holga and they suggested Velcro!



Right so thats all set and done, but alot of people i speak to are compaling about how much it costs to develop film, well it costs alot less if you develop your own (black and white anyway). All you need is a developing tank a sink and 3 chemicals that wont cost over 20 pound for a few devs.
The 3 chemicals you'll need is stop fix and developer. After that check on the net for mesusurments and times and your well away! You'll also need a dark room to load your film but thats easy enough!








It'll only take an 30 minuets max to develop a film and then you can wash it for as long as you want. Colour film is very tricky to work and uses different and more chemicals so still take those to your lab!





















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