Holgablog pays tribute to the most spectacular instant camera ever created, looking at it’s features, how it works, and into the future for this amazing feat of engineering.
Editorials
Holga theme for Firefox Personas
According to some crazy philosopher, it’s better to give than to receive – and apparently Christmas is the time to do so. With that in mind, I went into the little shed at the end of my garden, and knocked together a little Holga 120 WPC skin for you Firefox users – oh, and you’ll »
How to Make Good Pictures pt 2
In part one of this article I included some photography basics. This second part will have more tips on how to make good pictures. Good and better pictures To help you figure out what makes a good picture, the book gives examples of good and better pictures for all sorts of scenarios. What are the subtle elements of »
How to Make Good Pictures pt 1
From 1912 to 1995, Kodak published many versions of a book called How to Make Good Pictures: A guide for the amateur photographer (the title was changed to How to Take Good Pictures in 1974). I found a copy of this book (29th ed. from 1952) in an antique store in Des Moines, IA. I’d only »
Derek’s Rant… on buying a new digital camera…
My disclaimer: The great thing about opinions is that you don’t need credentials to have one. The bad thing is that they’re like * (refer to Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s Breakfast of Champions if you don’t know what I mean by the asterisk). So there you have it, I’m just an * with zero credentials and an »
The Resurgence of Instant Film!
This is our first article with super-duper-bonus-futuristic-mechanised-twitter-interactive-elements. The article was more experimental to see if the twitter community could get involved directly..it seemed to work ok! We should be experimenting in future with more twitter-interaction goodness. A fellow Holgablog writer, Derek, mentioned something interesting about the increasing popularity of the Polaroid.
Derek’s Rant about Rangefinders and life
When I originally came up with the concept of the Derek’s Rant column (is that what you call a post on a blog?) I intended it to be thought provoking. A prevailing trend I see in society is that we are becoming more sheepish. Even eccentric individuals aren’t as eccentric or individual as they used »
-= Rant Warning=- Thinking outside of the Box (that’s a pun!)
It’s a pun because all camera’s, digital or film, are is simply a light tight box with an opening at one end and a way to record information on the other. What we put on those two ends and where we point it what controls it. They can be as complicated as the latest medium format »
Why I Should Grow a Spine
So the other day I was given three Pentax ME Supers by a friend. He passed them on because they are all broken. This is both gratifying and annoying, because as much as I like free stuff, I dislike my weakness in accepting it knowing that I will spend the rest of my waking hours making futile attempts to repair it.
