rover
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Post by rover on Oct 2, 2005 20:13:33 GMT -5
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Post by Randy on Oct 2, 2005 21:53:38 GMT -5
Wow...now that is a different point of view! I've thought about getting one of those Holgas.
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rover
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Post by rover on Oct 3, 2005 4:30:25 GMT -5
It is a fun $25 Randy. Mine has flash, but I stuck with the moody plastic lens, you don't want to loose the mood. And hey, how can using 120 film ever be bad?
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Post by kamera on Oct 3, 2005 20:30:31 GMT -5
Rover,
I got a Holga about two years ago and only used it a couple of times. Made a mistake and left it in a spot too convenient for my 4 year old grandson to see and get hold of it. He broke the toy.
Have planned on replaceing it, but always end up getting something else I see.
The mystery of not knowing quite what the pic might look like is much the thrill of using one!
Ron Head Kalamazoo, MI
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Post by David Silver on Oct 4, 2005 11:24:38 GMT -5
What amazes me is that you have to spend a lot of $$$ for filters and adapters to get the sorts of "special effects" in those pictures with other cameras, but it's all part of the package with the Holga! Definitely fun!!
Dave
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Post by Randy on Oct 11, 2005 6:47:10 GMT -5
Rover's pictures have a "Blair Witch" quality to them that would make for great fun around Halloween! I gotta get one of those!!!
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Oct 11, 2005 8:08:21 GMT -5
Never had a Holga, but rethinking that now. I do however have a Diana, Diana Flash, and several Diana clones. Fortunately I picked them all up for under a dollar each in my pre-Ebay days.
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rover
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Post by rover on Oct 13, 2005 10:45:58 GMT -5
Rover's pictures have a "Blair Witch" quality to them that would make for great fun around Halloween! I gotta get one of those!!! That is a great Idea!!! I may have to do some exposure math based on 3200 film, 1/100s and f8. I think I will need to pop the flash, but hey, why not?
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Post by lulalake on Nov 14, 2005 12:18:22 GMT -5
Hey Rover, I shoot a bit of 3200 with my Holgas. Here is one of My mom I took in July, indoors in a somewhat darkened room with only window light (about 6 feet away) on a cloudy day. The work very well, or as well as a Holga can :- ) I'm pretty much into Holgas, so much so that I have "the" yahoo group about them groups.yahoo.com/group/holgaholgaholgaThere are some interesting folks there and some interesting experiments with Holgas. Come hang out a bit if you'd like Jules
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Post by PeterW on Nov 14, 2005 15:10:42 GMT -5
Hi Jules. Very nice picture, and nice lighting. Got to admit the softer definition of the plastic Holga lens suits this type of portraiture - but I'm still not going to get one . Peter
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Post by lulalake on Nov 14, 2005 16:22:37 GMT -5
Hi Peter, Thanks for the comment. They are just loads of fun.
Cheers.
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Post by Randy on Nov 14, 2005 17:55:04 GMT -5
Very nice picture of a distinguished Lady.
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Post by lulalake on Nov 17, 2005 21:50:13 GMT -5
Thanks very much Randy, Quick story and a brag about her: My Mom, Jean, though long retired now, was for her working life known as a Photo Artist. She was a master photo retoucher in great demand. Of course this was when photo retouching was oil paints, air brushes, masks, colored pencils and the like. Some of my first memories were of the smell of oil paints, the hiss of the airbrush and the feel of the paints when she let me mess with them, which was often. Other memories were of photographers, large cameras, many like the ones we play with here, large prints and big band music. When she quit working she gave me hundreds of old negs she worked on, 4x5s 5x7’s 8x10s and many finished prints. It absolutely amazing what retouchers did in those days before PhotoShop Here’s one more pic of her. This was literally the summer of ’42 in downtown Chattanooga Tennessee where I grew up. She’s the cutie on the left side. These women stayed her friends all throughout her life, all gone now except for my mom.(this is from a 4x5 neg, probably shot with a Speed Graphic or something of that sort) Thought you might enjoy this. Cheers Jules
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Post by Randy on Nov 17, 2005 22:17:38 GMT -5
Yes, I enjoyed that picture very much! I'm a big sucker for nostalgia, and that picture is big time nostalgia, especially when I can see the sameness of your mother then and now. Thank you!
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