toy time with the infamous holga camera...

About a month ago, I met a person on facebook who show-cased some images using his lomo camera. I decided to ask the guy if he would be interested in doing portrait shoot of each other using his Lomo. As a result, the images turned out quite interesting, with full-on saturated colours using slide film. Another friend saw those photos and asked if I would do the same with him. Of course, I said yes, but I decided to go out and get the Holga camera instead of the Lomo (the Lomo is simply over-priced and I couldn't see myself forking out HK$1900 or US$234 for it). The Holga is moderately priced at 1/4 the cost including a manual and book and too, a toy camera. It has a plastic lens similar to the Lomo and rather crappy body (it lets like leak in...a good thing and a bad thing). The thing with the Holga is that it allows for a square frame image and uses film (yeah!). So armed with the Holga, I went out and shot some cool shots of my friend Josh walking about in my neighborhood Sheung Wan/Midlevels area. My favorite is the one of him staring into the camera with this rectangular box outlining him. It was an accidental double exposure...so quite a pleasant surprise.