I was recently interviewed about the Holga by Jim Elson, an Australian exchange student. The result is a nice and short movie about people shooting Holga, showing them in action in a winter-y Berlin. To give you an idea, it was about -20 degrees Celsius when I was filmed. The Holga held up great, look [...]
The standard recommendation for the seems to be to stuff some good 400 speed color negative film in it. While that’s all good and fun, looking back I’m still wondering why that Lomography Holga package I got for Christmas came with a roll of 100 speed Fuji Reala.
Anyway, it’s all autumn and almost winter over [...]
Don’t you just love the focussing symbols on the Holga’s lens? I sure do. In fact, I love their simplicity so much, I used them in a recent presentation. I didn’t find a really reasonable base to work with, so I used one that was close enough to what I wanted, one that Greg Lawler [...]
It seems I can now call myself something of a published photographer. Kind of a scary though, if you ask me, but what are you gonna do. Some of my Holga shots have seen the public face over the weekend, and I’m a bit excited about it.
But where to start. The German weekly news magazine [...]
Time to get down and dirty, eh? As I wrote yesterday I ran two rolls through the Holga with the new lenses to get a feel for the images they produce. I did some shots just switching the lenses, and then a couple of shots varying the focus. Let’s have a look at the former. [...]
Summer has returned, and I slept in, because I took our international guests to the airport very early in the morning, but when things finally started rolling I decided to take the new Holga lenses for a spin with the Polga back (or Holgaroid, if that’s what you prefer).
Not knowing what to expect I also [...]
A few weeks ago we left Berlin for a day to visit J’s parents. That usually means getting up a bit early, but it was a perfect summer day, and I had something in mind for us to do. Not too far from where they live there’s an empty airstrip, these days pretty much used [...]
Do people still use the word quickie? No idea, anyway, I do.
As a Holga fan I’m sure you’ve noticed a dip in the Holga matrix just recently. That’s because the Holga manufacturer has unleashed no less than two accessory lenses upon the mind-blown toy camera photographer world. A wide-angle and a tele lens, sweet stuff. [...]
I can’t say I’m well-travelled, but I have seen my fair share of boring places. Even though there’s always something in those cities that especially a photographer can make of. But it’s usually not much, and there’s some cities that just stand out, and not in a good way. There’s just nothing.
Nothing you can happily [...]
This is gonna be one narcissistic post. Sort of inspired by HolgaJen’s 10 Tips for Better Holga Self Portraits, and with the help of a trip to a boring city and some free time in a hotel room, I finally gave in and shot a roll of film with just my face on it. There [...]
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