I got a camera last week. It's a Holga, which is a popular "toy camera" made in Hong Kong. It's basically a cheaply made plastic lens film camera with a minimum of settings. It shoots 120 format film, which is about 60mm square, so the actual image taken is almost four times the size of typical 35mm film. It's known for taking slightly strange, "dreamy" retro photos. I picked up some expired black and white film (because that's all I could find) and took it to the park today.
They say that you have to just shoot a few rolls of film and make a lot of mistakes. That's how you learn. Well, the first 3 shots I "took" with this camera are a great example. First photo: never happened. I was winding the film, and saw a number "1", my signal to stop winding. Instead I kept winding until I saw the number "2". I thought about trying to rewind it, but I'll just write that off as an easy mistake. Second photo: I think it was a success. I was near the entrance to the park, and wanted to take a photo of the park and the mountain behind it, so I put the focus all the way out. The third photo I took was of some people dancing to promote their candidate in the upcoming presidential election, Park Geun Hye. A few minutes after taking the photo, I realized that I hadn't focused, so it was still set on "mountain" range. Oh, well.
I have a lot to say about the upcoming election, so you'll just have to check back with me in a few days to read about that.
I ordered some more film online, and it should be here by this weekend. It will probably be a couple of weeks before I get some film developed and see how successful I am at my new hobby.
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