It's Heeeere

you lucky thing ! :-)

WoW!

Paintist, it's all Billion's fault! :) I'm looking forward to playing with it.

Thanks, AF. I've never had a film camera, so it will be interesting. I'm not expecting much out of the first couple of film rolls, I haven't a clue about what I'm doing. :D

Thanks, Mara. I felt the Holga deserved a multiple exposure. :)

Ooh, I want one!
I loved my Lomo until it sadly broke.
I keep meaning to dust off my film cameras and take them for a spin until I remember about the cost of film processing.
Looking forward to the results of the Holga, though.

These are about the cheapest things called camera you can get your hands on. :) I'm looking forward to playing with it. I'd love to see more of Holga crowd here.

Wow, fantastic!

Like AmericanFriend I can't wait to see what you do with it :)

Thanks, Euphro. It will be a bit of a learning curve for me. :)

What a lovely, trippy shot :) Hope you have fun!

Thanks, Itchy, I'm sure I will! :D

I predict much fun in your future! Will you process yourself Caine? That's what I do (with diafine), and then scan the negs. That's what i've found to be most cost effective, but it does tend to mean more b&w; instead of those usual lovely colours you get.

I hope so, Nige. :D I'd love to learn how to process myself, I did it years ago when I worked in manufacturing art rooms. That was a looooong time ago though. We'd have to adapt a space for a darkroom - we have the space, but getting Rick to do the adapting is another thing altogether. ;)

I don't quite understand - scanning the negs? That's another thing, I have a scanner which is serviceable, but it's not top of the line or anything. The first prints will be back tomorrow night. I fully expect them all to be absolute shite. We'll see.

Heheh. Well, I look forward to seeing them.

I don't have a darkroom per-se, I just use my toilet because it's the darkest room when I shut the door! I process the negs in diafine (which is the cheapest processing solution) then dry them out. once dry I scan them into the computer using a negative scanner, and then upload them to wherever. Haven't done it in a while, but I found that doing it that way was much much cheaper than paying for prints and then scanning them.

Aha. I don't think my cheap scanner will do negs. Hmmmm. I'll have to do some thinking about this one. If I manage to get un-lazy enough to bug Rick often enough, maybe we can get something set up over winter.

oh blimey. thanks to all the silly spam-trolling going on recently I missed this photo upload. good luck with the holga caine, it's a bitch to start off with, and photo developing can be costly, but it can be hugely rewarding if you persevere.

Thanks, Billion! I'm not expecting a good result for a while. I know this is going to be a learning curve, especially with it being a Holga. I'm always up for a challenge though, and your shots have been stellar and that's encouraging. :)

Good luck with the holga, I'm sure you'll get some great stuff out of it - I must dust mine off and take some flippin' photos soon! I'm inspired by bilion's recent posts!

Thanks, Jun! I'll have to go somewhere now. :D

As much as i love film photography, i don't use film anymore myself. Not since i found out photographic film contains gelatin :(

Aww. Well, Rick was very into film photography when he had his Canon. I've never done film and I'm looking forward to it. New challenge.