Film Camera a Month - December

The last camera in my Film Camera a Month series! 

For December I used my plastic fantastic holga 135BC

I loaded it up with some Fuji Superia 800 X-TRA. The results were somewhat expected out of a camera with very limited settings and a plastic lens (plus the film was most likely past it's expiry!)  

Some of the shots were taken from our trip down to Port Macquarie after Christmas and others climbing Mt. Beerwah in the glasshouse mountains. I have a few more photos of Port Macquarie to share (once I have a moment to edit them) but for now, enjoy the few shots that were redeemable from the roll with some double and triple exposures thrown in for fun.

Also I'll admit it's a tad melancholic being the last post in the series.  In happier news, I've already loaded my OM1 up with film and still have some film shots waiting to be shared. I definitely intend to keep on taking film this year with the added bonus that now I have a better idea of which camera to use for what situation :) 

Thanks for following along everyone!

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Film Camera a Month - July

So July was meant to be featuring my pentax 6x7 but whilst out adventuring the shutter stopped (eep!) though I eventually (thanks google!) figured out it needed a new battery which I ordered online (takes time!).  In the meanwhile, I switched over to one of my toy cameras, the Sunny Juice Box - which along with the fuji film loaded inside (superia 200) pleasantly surprised me :) I ended up digging the tones and instead of complaining about how fuji film handles shadows I deliberately processed the photos on the softer side = a outcome fee was happy with :P

This plastic fantastic camera, literally has a shutter button, you can read more about it in my film camera guide but honestly, I 99% bought it because of its novelty factor :P I mean the shutter button is a fake plastic straw :p how awesome is that!

The mechanism to rewind the film is super flimsy, it stopped turning (but not freely!) so I was kind of stuck as to what to do, I took it in a darkish room and opened the back - oops! Film hadn't rewound completely, so I think that ended in a few light streaks, which I love but I probably wouldn't turn into a habit of doing. The trick to get the film to completely re-wind back into its canister was solved by pulling the little plastic release clip that sits under the film and turning it until the film canister started winding freely! lesson learned!

Second lesson learned, never take toy camera shots inside unless your film is a crazy high ISO or you have some crazy good lighting going on :p Still appreciate this shot of silhouette Peachy and the crazy light streak :)

You can check out the previous month's cameras over here

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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)

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