Which Holga? in Extreme, Retro, Instant and More Posted November 30, 2008 I have been looking all over the place and I've been finding a lot of conflicting information, so I really need a live person to help me out here. I have a decent amount of basic information, but I need someone who actually has some first hand experience to help me put it all together. Please tell me with model to get and give me a few suggestions on modification. Tell me any way that I can get these options. Modification, buying a new part, whatever. I want to keep the cool little defects like the light leaks and vingnetting. I want the classic plastic lens, shooting in 6x6 on 120 film, the ability to do multiple exposures and adjustable focus. These are these essentials for me. Basic stuff. With a model that has that, I want to maximize the degree of control over how much light gets in and do a few other things. By hook or by crook, I want the camera to have at least SOME of these features: -Something with a "B" shutter speed setting and, of course for that it needs to be mounted to a tripod. Hopefully I can get one that has this setting, or modify it to do that and attach my own tripod mount... or duct tape it to the tripod or something, I don't know. -Aperture control. I know that at most, Holgas have 2 settings, and one usually doesn't work so I'll probably end up just adding a pinhole. If I do the pinhole the "B" shutter speed will be fairly important. Any other options here? -Flash. I'm pretty interested in the color flash. What do I do for this one? Get the 120CFS (it has to have what I'm looking for)? Get one with a hot shoe and find a color flash bulb? -Improved focus. With the pinhole, the depth of field will be better. Is there anything else I can do for the focus? Making modification? Buying a new part, get a new crappy plastic lens? (CAN you change the lens?) -Cable Release (or something similar). Call me "Shaky-hands Mcgoo." I need a way to release the shutter with less risk of shaking the camera. Plus, the shutter release being in the front weirds me out. So yeah... this is a lot. I'm also going to make it a snazzy color and make sure there isn't TOO much light leaking. (Of course there should be some though). Then I've got my dream Holga. If you're going to help me, thanks a ton!
Which Holga?
in Extreme, Retro, Instant and More
Posted
I have been looking all over the place and I've been finding a lot of conflicting information, so I really need a
live person to help me out here. I have a decent amount of basic information, but I need someone who actually has
some first hand experience to help me put it all together. Please tell me with model to get and give me a few
suggestions on modification. Tell me any way that I can get these options. Modification, buying a new part,
whatever. I want to keep the cool little defects like the light leaks and vingnetting.
I want the classic plastic lens, shooting in 6x6 on 120 film, the ability to do multiple exposures and adjustable
focus. These are these essentials for me. Basic stuff. With a model that has that, I want to maximize the degree
of control over how much light gets in and do a few other things. By hook or by crook, I want the camera to have
at least SOME of these features:
-Something with a "B" shutter speed setting and, of course for that it needs to be mounted to a tripod. Hopefully
I can get one that has this setting, or modify it to do that and attach my own tripod mount... or duct tape it to
the tripod or something, I don't know.
-Aperture control. I know that at most, Holgas have 2 settings, and one usually doesn't work so I'll probably end
up just adding a pinhole. If I do the pinhole the "B" shutter speed will be fairly important. Any other options here?
-Flash. I'm pretty interested in the color flash. What do I do for this one? Get the 120CFS (it has to have what
I'm looking for)? Get one with a hot shoe and find a color flash bulb?
-Improved focus. With the pinhole, the depth of field will be better. Is there anything else I can do for the
focus? Making modification? Buying a new part, get a new crappy plastic lens? (CAN you change the lens?)
-Cable Release (or something similar). Call me "Shaky-hands Mcgoo." I need a way to release the shutter with less
risk of shaking the camera. Plus, the shutter release being in the front weirds me out.
So yeah... this is a lot. I'm also going to make it a snazzy color and make sure there isn't TOO much light
leaking. (Of course there should be some though). Then I've got my dream Holga.
If you're going to help me, thanks a ton!