holga & black&white magic

JAM · Backside 180 Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 604 City: nOtown

all film yeahhh Twisted Evil

kirby

koppert lake WA

pastura

hooker

Slapdown · Kickflip Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 4240 City: Austin

That's sick Cool

i think i'm buying my GF a Holga for christmas..

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10755 City: Jefferton

I bought a modified holga and I can hardly wait to use it. Cool

I like the spray and the lighting in the first shot...

tad · 360 flip Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 5031

Sick shots Jeff. #2 and #4 rock my socks.

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

The Holga is to Wakeskating what the guitar is to surfing.

Holgas are NOT as easy to use as you'd think. Load your film in dark places and definately use electric tape to prevent light leaks and over exposures.

Good job with the above. It's taking me like 8 rolls of film to get two shots that were good.

JAM · Backside 180 Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 604 City: nOtown

electricsnow, what kind of modifications does it have? Put some pics up after you shoot a roll, id love to check them out.
jonnyUTAH, great analogy. Thats pretty true. Tape does a holga good. Wakeskating is hard to shoot with a holga, you usually get lucky. With only 2fstops and one shutter speed the thing is pretty basic. I usually use it for cool portraits like this one of trav.

islandtime · Posted: Dec 09, 2007 5:33 pm Post subject:

traviiiiiii Laughing

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Dec 09, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject:

the one of kirby is amazing <3

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10755 City: Jefferton

JAM, I bought my camera from holgamods.com and the function I paid for was the time exposure function. I got the impression that most times that that particular modification is irreversible, and I personally didn't want to screw around with it because I really don't know enough about them. This guy does it so you can either shoot with the stock 1/100 shutter speed, or you can shoot and keep the shutter open as long as you want.

Raven · Posted: Dec 09, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject:

sick shots breh..........i like the pastura re-entry bs flip Question

JAM · Backside 180 Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 604 City: nOtown

esnow, ya I would be afraid of messing something up if I did the mods myself. That guy does have some cool stuff on his site. I want to put some 35mm in my holga and experiment with it. Mine has a manual exposure function where you hold the shutter open manually for however long you want. Here is a pic I took using it. I wish I had the remote hook up on mine that way I wouldn't of had to, hold the shutter down for 20 seconds.

nate_ · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1226 City: toronto

like always dude....sweet pics Very Happy

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10755 City: Jefferton

NICE! 35 mm color film is the first roll I have, since it's what I found at my house. I've yet have time to fuss, but I only have a week and a half left of seriousness...then I want to take some pictures of some of my special wakeskates (and whatever else catches my fancy--I don't want to waste it) with my holga.

Nice shot!! Frick...and some of the people on the holgamod site sent in some really nice looking pictures as well.

Greg T · Skeezer Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 2448 City: ohio

Actually, there is only one fstop on a Holga. The switch does nothing.

http://photondetector.com/articles/holga-apertures/

NaRC-P rider · Posted: Dec 09, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject:

always a pleasure, JAM Cool

JAM · Backside 180 Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 604 City: nOtown

Greg T, dang those guys are in to holgas Very Happy

. Either way if it did have f8 and f11, the difference between the 2 on a camera like a holga wouldn't even matter. They are so close to each other its hard to tell the difference. Anywho, I think I am making this too technical for the general wakeskating forum haha.

NaRC-P rider, likewise

steveMcMur · Backside 180 Joined: 21 Sep 2006 Posts: 657 City: orlando

good shizzle brother

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10755 City: Jefferton

supposedly my modified jobby has been modified to the point where there are two true f stops. That's one of the "standard" modifications you get at holgamods.com, and that guy explains the non-functioning fstop since one of them is fixed, but I seriously dont' know enough to know the difference. I just wanted a sweet camera to preserve the memories a little bit better that the digi...

dylo · Posted: Dec 10, 2007 3:33 am Post subject:

As soon as i saw these pics i had to have one..
So i bought one off the guy that esnow posted..
Looks so good, hopefully get it before chrissy.
What film are you guys using?
I really like the colours in the portrait of trav by JAM.

I have a 10d with 70-200mm F4L, but these holgas look sick for the price.

sim · Pop Shuvit Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 219 City: Thorpe

i got a holga at the start of the summer and have had a lot of fun using it. I've been shooting 35mm because medium format film costs a fortune over here, and the processing and printing is about ?15 ($30) a roll!!
If you're shooting on 35m i recommend putting some electrical tape slightly over the top and bottom of the viewfinder, because it frames a square image and you will almost definitely cut off the top or bottom of your shot on a 6/4 35mm exposure. think widescreen against regular format, but with a vertical difference instead of horizontal.
I also bought it for the nostalgia side, i havn't shot any riding or action stuff, more scenic and 'arty' things. I got a few great shots but there's a lot of luck involved. i like that
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