Holga has arrived

Yesterday my Holga 120N arrived from Hong Kong. I really love the packaging. Packages from Asia never cease to amaze me – there’s always so much care taken in to the presentation.

Aren't those some pretty stamps? And look at that bow.

I took the Holga out for a spin today. I was a little nervous taking photos with this analog camera, as it has been a long time since I’ve been without the instant gratifications of digital. Makes me wonder now how I did it, taking roll after roll of pictures when I was growing up. It’s been over a decade now since I used film.

I’m hoping that this roll will turn out good, and I am shooting ISO 400, so it shouldn’t be too bad. But, I just hope I really did take the lens cap off, and that I did hold the shutter down for the “right” amount of time. I know with these cameras you should expect WYSIWYG either (I’ve read the Holga view finder only shows about 60-70% of the area), so I hope I overestimated correctly in the right directions as well.

I mainly bought this camera because I’m going to a wedding, and I’ve always believed that “memories” just looked more authentic if they looked older. The Holga takes really fuzzy dreamy photos, although not as dreamy as the Diana F+ (which is the camera I really wanted), but “older looking” just the same. I can only hope my photos turns out something like this:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/tbd/3589075778/

The process of loading the film had me nervous enough. While turning the sprocket, so many film advance turns, I was so afraid of passing that “1″ I was s’posed to turn to. All those dots and dashes and arrows had me crazy nervous.

But hopefully by sometime next week I’ll have some photos to share. In the mean time, enjoy another photo taken with my phone.

Piggy posed for Holga today.

Speaking of my phone…I’m just amazed how good the outdoor shots look with that thing. The pictures in this post were taken with my Palm Pre. There’s no traces of the 90s webcam look that my old flip phones have had. It is really awkward trying to take photos with a smart phone, but I have definitely been taking a lot more photos with this phone than I ever took with my priors. Of course, the ability to upload directly to Facebook has had a major hand in that.

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