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!

Seduced by glamorous packaging I left the USA £70 lighter in my wallet and my luggage heavier to the tune of two(!!) new cameras. These use something called film which sounds much more exciting than it really is. Anyway I present to you my Holga 120 CFN medium format thingy and also my Lomo fisheye2 35mm fisheye camera.

The problems here are twofold. 1.) Film costs loads to process and takes ages. 2.) I have to buy a scanner to scan them in to my computer.

Someone should invent a camera that records images in a format that you can open instantly on your computer. It could be called a digitalisifier.