Articles Tagged ‘glasgow’

Introducing…Dave

My journey into the world of film photography began in February 08, and a typically rainy Saturday in Glasgow. While at the Barras (a market full of just about everything) I noticed a box stuffed to the brim with black, boxy, interesting looking objects. As I got closer I realised it was full of old cameras, »

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Gasp…sun in Scotland!

Thanks to the wonderful Peak Imaging I got my developed rolls back after 2 days! So here are some photos from the weekend. The film scanner seems to have dust on it, so the b&w photos didn’t come out too well..sorry! What I have realised is that you don’t just point »

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Things I learnt this weekend

1..Don’t use 100 speed film indoors, no matter how good your flash is, even if it’s your last reel. Especially at something fast moving like a ceilidh! 2..Never point your Holga skywards when it is haling and raining, and generally blowing a gale. They aren’t sealed, the don’t like being wet. 3..If you do point your »

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Flickr Friday

This is a new series that we are starting, and hope that it will continue weekly.
Each week, we will search the Holga Flickr group for photos added during that week and will post a few of our favorites, based on a theme.
Our first theme for the week of February 10 – 17, 2010 is The [...]

Holga Wide and Tele Lens test shots

Here are a few test shots I took in my back yard a couple of weeks ago using the new Holga Wide and Tele lenses.  For comparison, I stood in the same spot and took them all from the same angle (as best I could!).
I will keep trying out the lenses in some more different [...]

Review: Holga 120 WPC

I was originally going to start this review of the 120 WPC off quite technically – what the WPC stood for, what features it had, what the f-stop was. That kind of thing. Then I realised I’d been sucked into what I actually try to avoid in photography: geekspeak. So while some of the specifics [...]