It’s WORLD PINHOLE DAY 2009…yay! This guide is a bit late, but it may serve you well in future. I’ve taken one of my old (broken) Holgas and turned it into a pinhole. Here’s how to do it: What You Need 1.A Holga, preferably already broken! It does however need a working shutter. My holga’s lense snapped off, »
In the runup to WPD2009, we are churning out pinhole articles! Our latest is a strange one. You all know you can create a pinhole camera pretty much out of anything you can get your hands on, from tin cans, through to wooden boxes. This article lists some of the strangest, most bizarre, funniest, or »
It’s that time of year again! It’s World Pinhole day on the 26th April. Once a year the fantastic people at http://www.pinholeday.org/ organise WPD. A day to celebrate, learn, and use pinhole cameras. If you check out their events page you will see there are many events be held around the world, ranging from exhibitions to »
Among all my little experiments in the photography world, I have to say that pinhole is one of my favourite, for the fun and the immediate effect. How to make a pinhole with what is at hand? Necessary material > A box, rather in metal, lightproof (1) > Black adhesive tape (2) > Matte black paint, better in spray > A nail »
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Flickr Friday!
It’s that time again! TGIF!!
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 theme for the week of March 3 – March 10, 2010 is Play.
You know the saying, “All work and no play…” Well, Friday [...]
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 [...]
