I recently added the holga cfn 120 to my family for a bit of fun. The camera is a medium format lomography camera which I picked up for a bit of fun just to mess around with this summer. From the get go, I intended to shoot 35mm film with it instead of medium format due to the costs involved with medium format. To do this the camera needed an adapter or you can make a ghetto adapter but with this your exposing the sprockets of the film which can be a little bit of a pain but it looks cool.
With my first film going through i’ve encounted a variety of things that need to be avoided in the future. The focus of the camera can be really temperamental and sometimes it’s hard to get it right. Also I’ve found there to be a red light leak which I’m guessing may occur after I wind a film ready for the next shot and leave it temporarily, that it becomes a tiny bit exposed from the light leaks. I’m a little bit dissapointed that the vignette has been minimal on it so far, this is because I’m shooting 35mm.
Experimental stage over, time to shoot some waterscapes and take my time composing.
You need a lot of (opaque) black tape on the back, especially over the red frame counter window to avoid light leaks. they are kinda cool sometimes though, like in the bike shot above.
I think the Holga allows a bit of freedom from worrying about technique, which can lead to great art.
Thanks for the comments you’ve prompted me to tape the bajesus out of my holga haha but hopefully the red tinge isn’t so bad now 🙂