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 »
Today is a sad day for film photography. The omnipresent Kodak Kodachrome is ceasing production. The first mass-produced colour film, released in 1935 will be phased out by 2010. Thousands of people loved Kodachrome for various reasons, including low grain, brilliant colour, and quite a bit of latitude. Some of the most recognised colour photographs ever »
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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 [...]
