There's this show I was able to see about Art in general and there was this piece about a camera that is being collected not because of its advanced features like shutter speed and aperture control but because of its simplicity and very unique view with its lens. The camera is a Holga.
A holga is a plastic bodied camera which supports a 6x6 film cage and a very instamatic lens. Its completely bareboned, as a friend of mine would describe it and functions almost like an instamatic camera. A drawback, depending on which side of the quality argument you are, is that the film housing lets a little bit of light inside thus making the picture quite blurry and sometimes it comes out damaged due to the light. Yet this blurry look brings out images of near pointilism, very grainy though its not pixilized. One photographer had his shots with various blurry streaks of light around it, making the 6x6 square into a circle as the lens had taken the rest of clear image within the circle while white blurry light comes at the edge of the four sides of the square. Another photographer had solved this light intrusion with the use of tape and covered the film housing from the outside. Nonetheless, the pictures he got were dreamy and inticing, with the same grain effect.
Very resourceful when being limited by equipment you got but then very ingenious indeed when creativity unbounds the limitations.
A holga is a plastic bodied camera which supports a 6x6 film cage and a very instamatic lens. Its completely bareboned, as a friend of mine would describe it and functions almost like an instamatic camera. A drawback, depending on which side of the quality argument you are, is that the film housing lets a little bit of light inside thus making the picture quite blurry and sometimes it comes out damaged due to the light. Yet this blurry look brings out images of near pointilism, very grainy though its not pixilized. One photographer had his shots with various blurry streaks of light around it, making the 6x6 square into a circle as the lens had taken the rest of clear image within the circle while white blurry light comes at the edge of the four sides of the square. Another photographer had solved this light intrusion with the use of tape and covered the film housing from the outside. Nonetheless, the pictures he got were dreamy and inticing, with the same grain effect.
Very resourceful when being limited by equipment you got but then very ingenious indeed when creativity unbounds the limitations.
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