So apparently I am an idiot, and it’s not called 120mm film as I’ve put below, but rather simply 120 film. I feel such a cretin.I took another roll of 120 film in for processing today, and was told the shop didn’t have the facilities to process it. I said perhaps they should tell that to the other girl who processed it for me last Friday in one hour for £3.

They took the film and said could I come back tomorrow when the other girl was working. OK…

Watch this space, I took three frames with the lens cap on, and when my wife handed the camera back to me after holding it the back was open, so I don’t have high hopes for what’s going to come out this time!

Fun this film lark be.

On an unrelated note, I took some pics of a VX220 Turbo. Following on from when I took my Ignis there a week or so ago, this is from beach shoot v2.0.

I scanned in my 120mm film from the Holga last night, and the results were… shall we say… mixed. Hectic vignetting, and light leaks abound.

It seems the Holga can’t focus any closer than about 80 centimeters from the lens, unfortunately more than half of what I shot was closer than this, so none of them are in focus. It doesn’t help that you can’t actually see through the lens to know if the photo you are taking is in focus – it’s all guess work. So you end up with stuff like this:

Sort of nice in an abstract way, but a huge departure from the clinical accuracy of my D200, and one I think I’ll struggle to get used to. I’ll whack another roll of film in and see how it goes this time.

I just finished my first roll of 120mm film in my holga… It’s been dropped off to be developed, and I’ll get it back later today… Will the photos be an artistic tour de force, or totally crap? Watch this space, once I’ve had a chance to scan them in we’ll know one way or the other!