Monday, February 3, 2014

Holga 120N - 100 Fuji Superia 120 film

Ahh me and Fuji we meet once more and yet again I've wound up with expired film - ahh the curse of my life with Fuji! I swear one day I'm going to buy Fuji film not expired :p Remember when I said I had a not-too-successful roll of colour put through my holga well yup this is it!


This time I didn't use the back plastic square backing you put into the camera and ended up with lots of light streaks (which I personally love) anyway just some food for thought, if you too are playing with a holga :)


(Taken outside at lollipop land!)

STATS
3 keeps 9 fails (ouch!)
Fail Reasons
3 underexposed inside shots, needed to like triple+ expose each frame to get somewhere near correct exposure! 4 horrid double exposure shots taken outside - gosh I was not on my double exposure game this roll, horrible clashing and down right bad shots, ha ha and finally 2 plain old boring shots *bows*
Things to remember
Don't shoot indoors unless you have lights or a tripod + the camera on bulb mode. Also this camera cannot do close ups so don't even think about it! I recommend at least 1 metre away from your subject at all time! (you've be warned)

12 comments:

  1. Love your film reviews! It makes me want to rely more on my "ye oldde" lc-a+ and my much-room-for-improvement skills with film ;) I'm with you with the light leaks, always adding some magic specially to holga pics.

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    1. Yes you should play more :) I think light leaks are maybe my favourite thing about Holgas, I wouldn't even want to tape them up :P

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  2. wow I love them! one of my faves I think, I have used this film I think..I lost the track of which film I have used sometimes maybe I should start labelling! I have always wanted Holga but I have too many film cameras and not sure whether I should go for it or not. what do you think?

    Katrina Sophia Blog

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    1. That's a good question, would I recommend them? I think if you understand the expense involved and like soft focus images and aware of their other limitations, then yup you should go for it :) he he he

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  3. do you have advice on where to develop film? i was going to go to my local drug store but i'm afraid it may not come out the way it's supposed to? or does it not matter where i go? and i love that bear with the little hankie tied around his neck :)

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    1. If I could get my film developed locally I would :) Save some coin!

      Developing film (unless it's a total novice behind the counter) is hard to mess up as they have a set procedure to follow. It's the scanning stage that is open to more discrepancy - depending on what equipment they are using. I used to get my film developed at a local shopping centre and then scan it at home using my printer. I have noticed since sending my film away to get it scanned by lomography that the colours seem different per film type when they scan it but it's way more convenient to have someone else scan it. I believe each 36 roll of film took me 1hour and a half to scan by myself as you have to put in each strip at a time and the super high resolution made it a slow process! I also don't think lomography's colours are wrong, heck they could be 100 times more accurate they are just different to what i'm used too :)

      I hope that makes some sense. Colour is hard to get accurate, I've played around with colour scanning software to correlate to my computer screen and match up perfectly but all I ended up was a huge headache! So it's hard to say that the end colour result is true to what the manufacturer intended for the film but you'd want to hope that larger organisations have their colour match, lined up pretty good :)

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    2. you are amazing! thanks so so much for this!

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  4. Even though you had only 3 to keep, the first flower shot is pretty amazing!

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  5. i love the three ones that came out <3

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