Holga 120n - Ilford Delta 100

As promised some black and white shots I took in my Holga 120n. I used a roll of 120 Ilford Delta black and white film with an ISO rating of 100

 I think black and white works really well for the Holga :) Unlike yesterday's post, I made sure to keep my frames lined up and stuck with the intended square format too, which is always cool!

Double exposure, peachy girl!

You might remember some of these photos from posts back on the blog in 2016 :)

 Fraser!

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Film Camera a Month - March

I actually thought I wouldn't have a roll for this month. Oddly I've been super social (odd for an introvert like myself) but hardly took any photos *gulp*. Thank goodness for Emaya visiting and us ending up at a super photogenic netball court for some skateboarding practice.

This month I was using my plastic fantastic, Holga 120n. It's a camera that takes 120 film, so embarrassingly I only had to fill up 12 frames but still found that super hard to do! I also had a silly moment where I thought I had loaded the camera with black and white film and found myself holding back from taking photos because I thought they wouldn't translate well to b&w. To make things seems even sillier, I had actually written on a label (stuck to the back of the camera) what roll of film was inside *face palm*. It's actually such a good tip, because the Holga 120 doesn't have a little peep hole to remind you what film is currently in use. Next time I will try and remember to actually read my super helpful note :p

So the camera was actually loaded with some Kodak Ektar 100 (colour!) and my aim for the roll was just to go crazy - I did half winds and double exposures and just click click click! I think perhaps I went a little crazy because how I scan my film is really only set up to do a frame at a time, so I did have to go into photoshop and splice some frames together. I do also dig the randomness though and I think it's one of the joys of Holga. I was actually sad there weren't super light leaks in this roll which I guess I was half expecting but, yup lesson learnt, don't expect anything from a plastic camera :p Onwards to the photos!

I think this month I really missed having a "reliable" film camera. I see myself in the future using my Holga when I go somewhere specific and want really random experimental shots. I think there is definitely a time and place for the Holga :) Oh and I totally wish I would of done at least one shot using a flash too *second face palm*

Tomorrow, I'm going to show you another roll I took with the Holga120n back in 2016 and, it's black and white and fun and I'm sad it's taken this long to share it! Stay tuned!

Oh and next month I'm using my instax for April - wish me luck!

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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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Holga 120n - 400 tmax film

So I already mentioned about pulling out my old holga, excited to be able to get 120 film developed relatively cheaply and easily - thanks lomography online! Since I hadn't pulled the camera out in eight years I also hadn't pulled out the film I brought to use with it - some Kodak 400 tmax that expired in 2008.

Now I'm hoping the results weren't determined by the expired film and how I'd mistreated it because that was a lengthy (totally unintentional) process I don't wish to repeat - I was smitten though with how the roll came back and I hope future non-expired rolls can deliver something similar :)

I'm not normally one to look at photos gleefully when they're underexposed (a problem that happens frequently with toy cameras on not super bright days) but something about the black and white, the lack of sharpness that you get with holgas, coupled with the mostly underexposed shots turned into something I really loved :)

Even though their is a perception about toy cameras being cheap (and admittedly my model was!) you have to be prepared to start forking out some coin here. The 120 film costs more than the 35mm film, the developing costs a fraction more and the most awful part is that instead of a glorious 36 shots coming back you get at most 12 (square shots) or 16 (rectangle shots) with the holgas. My model came with a black plastic insert that let's you change the sizes, I just happen to love the square format so I decided to lose 4 shots for it. Another thing is that holgas due to lack of exposure control leave you with the large possibility of some terrible shots so you could potentially find yourself being upset about wasted money/time/expectations :p

So my advice so far (I taken two rolls so I'm definitely no expert) is that b&w is the bomb but that could be because my colour roll came out horrid :p lol. Will blog about that one in the days to come :)

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Port Macquarie Film Photos

I got my film back for Port so I thought I'd share the photos. A fun things about this post is I used my holga 120n which has been sitting in a box since Japan (think 2006). I never played with it because I didn't know where I could develop 120 film but now we have this thing known as the internet :p 

All jokes aside I really enjoyed the results and will be using it a lot more!

*love*

Lots of happy accidents!

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