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May 28, 2009

Holga trees

These were taken with my Holga, oh, around fall of last year, a time of year when the skies around here are bleak most days even when the sun is out.  For my readers not familiar with it, the Holga is a cheap, medium-format plastic camera with a cheap plastic lens.  There are no exposure settings to tweak; the one exposure switch, which supposedly changes the aperture, is a fake and does not work, which is quite amusing.  It's one of those cameras where the viewfinder does not have anything to do with the lens except that they're located on the same contraption.  It can be had brand new for about $20-$30 if one stays away from the lomography sites selling them.  In other words, in the world of pixel-defined photography, the Holga is very much a toy camera.  And yet, some of the most awesome photos I see are taken with a Holga.  And those photos are the reason why I own one.

     

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May 26, 2009

Game

First test post for posterous. I like what I see so far. There seem to be smart people behind it, and well-funded, too. OAuth a big plus—I probably would have been very hesitant without it.

The photos are Polaroids, taken with an SLR-680. I have about a dozen cameras of different shapes and sizes, and all but one take film, also of different sizes. It's not that I loathe digital. In fact I'm quite impressed with my ultra-compact Lumix—tiny but packed with capability. It is so tiny that it often happens that it slips through my hands when I'm using it. And digital certainly excels at some things, immediacy of results for example. I once had a digital SLR, too, and I don't anymore. I like film. Because when I look at the resulting images, they're just more aesthetically pleasing, and have more depth and expression, which I do not mean to be technical terms. After all, aesthetics has more to do with how well I see rather than how well my camera sees.

     

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