Holga

What? Do you shoot 35mm?

Yeah, my main is 35mm, and then I have a Holga for 120mm, but at some point, I want to get a good 120mm camera.

Nice.

That's awesome.

I'm just at 35mm.

I'm scared.

Dude, you need to get a Holga.

The Holga's only like $40.

I think gear changes like the art of it.

So say you're someone whose brand is a little more filmy or kind of nostalgic or that's your taste and you like something that feels different and not just like a traditional digital image, like something like a Holga might call out to you.

And that's going to give you like really honestly, like pretty strong imperfections, like a softness, some vignetting around the lens and a look that you could not get on a digital camera.

And I'm sorry, I've tried, I've gotten really close, but I've tried with like all different filters and stuff trying to, um, or I don't know if you'd call it filter, but in Lightroom when Oh, like gradient and things.

Like I've tried to get the vignette and then I've tried to also get almost the distortion that the Holga has.

And I'm sorry, you cannot replicate a Holga photo digitally.

Like I've gotten pretty close, but it is still not the same.

And you know what's so funny is I had a consultation today literally 30 minutes ago.

uh one of my joys about it of course is is to do completely the opposite and just let it yeah that's one of the reasons why i love holgers so much and things like that because who knows what you're gonna get

And with your Holga, where you do not really have a lot of choice in exposure times, and with some of the Holgas, you're not even a choice in apertures, you try a pull in there.

Just shoot and develop, and it'll be fun.

It'll be fine.

I didn't.

I, I, I rarely take my Holgas out, to be honest.

Uh, they've, they've kinda, they've become, what's the word, shelf queens.

You could do, you can surely have better shelf queens than Holgas.

Yeah, I have.

I've got an XPan.

They're proper shelf queens.

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