You might remember me mentioning that friends and family seemed to have conspired to spoil me with the perfect birthday gifts that all work together perfectly: a plastic Holga camera, a set of filters for it, and a negative scanner to digitize the resulting images. You may also remember that I immediately loaded it with 35mm film and tried it out in Rhode Island. But the camera is made primarily for medium format film, and -drumroll- I finally had the first two rolls of 120 film developed. Here are some of the images from the first roll. I used black and white film and a red filter... hence the dark, über-contrasty look.
The Holga accompanied me on a trip to the Rosewell Ruins in Gloucester, VA.
I was charmed by the ruins themselves...
...as well as the surrounding woods. I was so happy to see that my Holga's plastic lens really does add a bit of characteristic blur around the edges. Just like it's supposed to.
Grain elevators in Parkston.
A photo of more railroad tracks in town, sporting the vignetting that is typical of Holga images.
And a tree. Vignetting and blur... yess!This was the trial run for the Holga loaded with the proper 120 film. OPTEST Sat!
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