Check out Adam Scott‘s 6×8 Holga modification instructions! Sweet!
More of Scott’s 6×8 Holga photos in this set on Flickr.
Tag: toy camera
Toy Polloy international toy camera photography show
So sayeth the show’s Web site, toypolloy.com:
It is used as a derogatory phrase meaning "the common people." Those most artists wish to separate from.
Toy Polloy is that separation… Photographically speaking.
Toy Polloy use cheap, common toy cameras, yet their results can be rich and uncommon.
Click here to view the 30 artists featured in the first ever…
Toy Polloy
Friday, November 17
THE ICEHOUSE
412 Cross Street, Lexington, Kentucky
Musiq provided by Parlour of Louisville, Kentucky (former members of Crain, The For Carnation, Weapons, Sapat, etc.)
&
Lexington, Kentucky’s Tight Leather (former members of RC ProAm & Mad Shadows)
As part of Downtown Lex’s Gallery Hop
5 p.m. til…
List of Diana toy camera clone names
Diana cameras (the original Holgas) can be really expensive. The results are awesome (and have personalties quite different from Holgas), but for someone who actually wants to make pictures rather than collect cameras, a hunnert bux or more for a piece of 40 year old plastic is simply bullshit. Fortunately, there are a ton of clones, made by the same company with the same warbly lenses, that cost a much saner $10-20. I don’t know about yours, but I’m pretty sure my film doesn’t care whether the camera says Diana or Windsor on the front.
Great! But how do you find the clones? Photographer and camera collector Allan Detrich has a large list of Diana clone names to watch out for. Dig it.
Double-sided lens and pinhole bi-cam
Flickr member bricolage.108 hacked a 35mm trashcam into a double-sided lens/pinhole monster. He writes:
If using a normal film roll this camera takes redscaled ["redscale" is where you shoot the film backwards, so the light gets filtered through the antihalation layers before hitting the emulsion and turns the image red/orange or yellow, depending on the film] pinholes from one side, and trashy lens shots on the other. It also makes doubles, exposing both sides of the film.
The same way if i redscale the roll first, i can take redcale shots using the lens and "normal" pinholes, on the same roll with the same camera.
I can, for example overlap the same subject using two "different cameras" and techniques or (and this i think it’s conceptually interesting) create (simultaneously) an image where the shot and what’s "behind the camera" are both visible.
Here’s an image he made with it, more here.
Lex35/Vivitar T100 35mm crapcam lens on 9×12
Bosse Blomqvist pulled the lens off a Lex35 and put it on a 4×5 camera with a medium format 9x12cm back. Above is the somewhat surprising result: the coverage is far bigger than I’d have expected!
Bosse writes:
Had to check out how the magnificient Lex 35 would behave as a large format camera, or at least how the lens would perform when mounted on a view cam and using it to shoot a 9x12cm negative…
Call for entries: The Holga Show at Photomedia Center
The Call for Entries category has been mighty thin due to my refusal to post any that require entry fees, but this one looks decent: Holga, no entry fee, electronic submission. It’s an electronic show that reqires a print donation if your work is accepted.
ATTENTION fine art photographers working with HOLGA cameras!
In December 2006, the Photomedia Center will be featuring artists who have been invited through an open submissions process to exhibit their photography which was created with the assistance of the Holga toy camera. This plastic miracle has produced a track record unexpectedly beatuiful results in the hands of skilled image-makers.
Artists are welcome to submit up to 8 images for consideration for inclusion in the show. Final decisions will be made by the Photomedia Center staff and board of directors. Accepted images will be shown online at www.photomediacenter.org as the featured exhibit of the month and archived online in our "previous exhibitions" section of the site thereafter. There is no cost to enter your work, but if your work is selected, we ask that you donate a print of your image to the Photomedia Center for its permanent collection.
I contacted them to clarify the camera hacking situation, and they replied:
The requirements are pretty open… any image is acceptable as long as it was made in some part and process with a Holga toy camera. Using modified versions of the camera, including lenses, is fine.
More info at the Photomedia Center’s Web site.
Via Randy Smith at holgamods (get your modified Holga from him!)
How to flip the lens on a Lex35/Vivitar T100 crapcam
The Lex35/Vivitar T100 is a crappy, hackable, cheap, plastic camera. Above is Eben Ostby‘s result from flipping and spacing the lens. He writes:
I don’t have pictures to show what I did, but if you look at my photostream, you’ll see a few "addled" photos that were done with a Lex 35 with a flipped lens. Here’s what I did:
Took apart the Lex35 [Eben’s instructions, with photos, are here].
Took the lens "board" off by removing its two screws. On the back of the lensboard, there’s a plastic ring that holds the lens in place, and which can be popped off by prying it gently with a screwdriver or such.
The lens comes out and can be reversed and placed in the front part of the lens-holder – in the stepped rings that are visible from the front. I used a thick washer to hold it in place, but you can improvise something else… tinfoil, glue, putty… I dunno. With the lens pushed as far back as I could get it to go, it the camera "focuses" (if that’s really the word) from about 2 feet to 30 feet. Sort of.
I also tried flipping the lens around but putting it back in the back part of the lensboard. If you do this, you’ll need to shim the lensboard away from the body of the camera, and use longer screws (such as the ones that hold the body of the camera together). And the focus is worse.
I’ve gotta say, I’m thrilled at having a screwed up Lex35 like this. It just made my week.
You can pick up a Vivitar 100 (same as the Lex35 except it has a tripod mount) for US $1.95 from American Science & Surplus.
Related: Lex 35/Vivitar T100 bulb shutter/multiple exposure mod how-to here on Photon Detector
Homemade underwater Holga enclosure
moominsean writes on his excellent blog, moominstuff:
I’ve been wanting to turn my Holga into an underwater camera for awhile, and finally got around to building a waterproof casing. I spent many hours on the design and implementation, making sure the seal was absolute, as you can see…
Check out his sweet home-built underwater Holga enclosure and sample photos—this thing has to be seen to be believed!
Two-part light leaking tutorial
Photographer moominsean put together a great two-part tutorial/explanation of what light leaks are and how to avoid them or get them on purpose. (See the bright bits coming down from the top on his [utterly brilliant] photo above? That’s them!)
Part one deals with leaks caused by the camera—very common with toy and home-built cameras—while part two deals with the winding of medium format film, which may be of particular interest to Zero Image pinhole shooters.
You can also create lightleaks on film after you have shot the roll (or, theoretically, before, but I haven’t tried this). When you see really strong, overpowering lightleaks, chances are it’s not the camera, but the handling of the film…
Check them out at his new blog, moominstuff: part 1 – part 2
Super-cheap DIY Holga cable release socket
Photographer Travis Gray came up with this awesome and cheap mod to add a cable release socket to a Holga. Check it out!