Hi guys! So before getting started with today's episode
I have two life updates to share with you real quick.
first one is that it's been a month since I came back from Portland
I know that I just finished uploading the videos last week
But it takes a long time
To work on them, all the footage, to develop all the photos and scan them, edit them and put everything together
So I haven't shot much since then.
I think that I shot two rolls in the whole month of March, around here in the local woods and some places around here
But so pretty much nothing, and I've been itching to get out
I really need to get out and take some photos and go on an adventure.
That's finally happening, in three or four days I'm leaving,
I'm gonna go on a trip by myself to South Dakota where I'm gonna be spending five days.
it's going to take me two days to get there and two days to come back, so four days on the road, five days there
Hopefully taking photos, so I'll probably be posting no videos next week
but videos from that trip to South Dakota will be coming soon, for sure
the second one is that our time here in the Midwest is coming to an end
in one month from today we will be in Lisbon, Portugal
We're not gonna be spending any time in
Portugal or at least not this time. We are just flying there because Luna is coming with us
We tried to find the shortest flight possible, so we're going to be driving to New York from here
and flying from New York to Lisbon. That's a six and half hour flight
Hopefully that's ok for her
after Lisbon, we will be moving to Spain. For those who don't know, I'm from there
So we'll be spending some time there, a few months probably, with family that we hadn't seen in years
We're going to be going on trips around there, and I hope I get to show you my home country a little bit
That's exciting too, and then later this year
We'll be moving to somewhere else in Europe probably Italy, but that's further ahead, so we'll talk about that later
So those were the two updates that I wanted to share with you, and now let's talk about
This little guy
Alright, about the Holga
So I've been wanting to talk about this camera for a long time
actually, last week I went to a local park that is nearby
and I recorded a whole video, and took some shots with this camera
I wanted to prove... to make a point
to make the point that you can actually create great images with this camera
I completely failed, because I got terrible light leaks on most of my photos
so I don't think that was a good way to show you guys, or someone who doesn't believe that you can create good images with this camera
to convince them that you actually can
so that's why I'm doing this video all over again
as you might have noticed, I have tape all around my camera now
trying to avoid those light leaks
I'm not entirely sure they are light leaks anyway
they might be some flare, because it was a very sunny day
and I never got any light leaks with this camera on cloudy days
it's only when the Sun is out. so I don't know what it is, I'm trying to figure it out
I'm sure that most of you know this camera already, but for those who don't
this is a toy, plastic camera. it's a medium format camera, it uses 120 film, the same kind of film that my Bronica does
I shoot HP5 most of the time here, it's a very flexible film that works very well with this camera, because you can't really control the exposure
you only have two settings: cloudy and sunny
that could be f/8, f/13, f/22, something like that, I don't know
it varies from camera to camera, the quality control on these cameras is pretty terrible
the shutter speed is fixed at 1/100th of a second, although it's not exactly 1/100th either
the focus is not precise. it has some symbols: one person, a group of people, a larger group of people, landscape...
it's not very precise and you never know if the focus is going to be
precise or not
as I said, this is a toy camera. I paid some $35 two months ago, brand new
it came with a roll of film, so the actual price is... what? $30? and it shows
it's made of plastic. the lens is made of plastic and that creates a whole new set of problems
the corners are very soft, they are pretty much trash
not that the center is much better, but the corners are pretty terrible
you can shoot bulb mode, but it doesn't have a shutter release so you can't connect a cable.
you have to hold the shutter down while you take the long exposure
I tried last week, and it was better than I thought, but it doesn't really work
I think that the best way to describe this camera is: unreliable, low quality, and rather expensive
it's 120 film, you get between 12 and 16 exposures
you can shoot square (6x6) or 6x4.5
it depends on how you are shooting, you get between 12 and 16 exposures
it can get really expensive to shoot with this camera
and you might be wondering... why in hell would anyone want to use this camera?
and that, my friend, is a very good question
I can only speak for myself
people who love this camera, they will tell you different things, they'll have different opinions
why they love it, what they use it for
but in my case, I've found that the more I use this camera the more it forces me to think out of the box
and what I mean by that is
as you know, I shoot film, and I shoot black and white, 99.9% of the time
that means that if I see a scene, like a tree, with a foreground, background, sky...
I have to convert everything that I'm seeing with my eyes to black and white
as the first step, trying to visualize that scene in black and white
so that's the first step, and it's something I have to do with this camera, with 35mm, with the Bronica, it doesn't matter
that's something I have to go through because I shoot in black and white
but this one adds one, two, three, multiple layers of complexity on top of that one
you have to be thinking all the time, not only about what you are shooting, that you are shooting in black and white
you have think about what this camera is going to do to that photo
you have to try to visualize, you have to try to make that image in your mind
your imagination has to run a little bit wild, trying to imagine how the sides are going to look
because they are going to be blurry, they are going to be destroyed
the distortion on this camera, you have to think about what that does to straight lines. they aren't going to be straight anymore with this lens
it's not about working around the flaws of this camera, it's about embracing them and using them to your advantage
knowing that you can be in a rather boring place, on a rather boring sunny day, like I was last week at the park
I know most of the photos got ruined, but some of them were promising
and that's one of the characteristics of this camera, that you can create amazing images anywhere.
it doesn't really matter the time of the day, or the place
because it has such a unique look to the images, that other cameras don't have
I found that the blurriness and softness on the corners can help you a lot isolating subjects
if you take a photo of a tree, and the scene has a busy background
with any other camera like the Bronica there's no other way for you to get rid of that background
but maybe, maybe, this camera being so soft and so blurry on the sides of the images, might help you a lot isolating the tree from the rest of the scene
that's what I mean by "embrace the flaws of this camera"
and try to use them to your advantage
once you start embracing the flaws of this camera, when you start embracing the soft focus and corners
you might start seeing things that you didn't see before
one of the things that I love the most about film is that it's very rewarding to visualize an image on the field
and use everything that you have in the whole process, camera, developing, scanning, and then editing the photo
to achieve that final result that you saw on the field first
and there's something very rewarding about getting that result, and not something that just happened to happen, you know?
when that same thing happens with this camera, it is 10 times more rewarding
because you saw it, you saw through this camera
you realized how this camera thinks
and you know the results that you can take with this camera
I'd say, give the Holga and any other toy, cheap camera a chance
because they might improve your photography in ways that you never thought of
you aren't going to get worse because you shoot this camera, you can only improve
and if it doesn't work for you, that's alright it was $30 you can give it away to someone else
personally, I carry this camera with me all the time now
I always have a roll of film loaded here, and another roll in my backpack or pocket
wow, this is a thunderstorm, nice
I'm going to show you some photos I've taken with this camera so far
I feel like I should tell you that I had this camera before, I sold it because I didn't want to bring it with me, I got it again
so these photos aren't only from the last two months but from last year too
and that's about it, I don't think I have anything else to say about this camera
please let me know what you think about the Holga or toy cameras, cheap cameras in general
if you have one, if you've used it, if you plan on using one
or if you just plain hate them because you don't like the look and you prefer a better camera
no matter what, thanks for watching and for being there
I'll be making another couple videos for this week, probably
there will be no videos, as I said, during next week
because I'm going to be in South Dakota
thanks for watching and see you in the next one
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