Holga 135BC 35mm Bent Corners Film Camera
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Holga 135BC 35mm Bent Corners Film Camera
- Brand: Unbranded
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You should also understand that you’re not looking through the lens when you look through the viewfinder, which brings up three more potential issues that I can think of. I felt ashamed by my rather haughty dismissal of a camera I had never seen, and I promptly got myself one. At the time, the only one I found available was used, but it seemed pretty serviceable. I had been working on a long-time project of shooting old storefronts, modeled after James and Karla Murray on the old storefronts of New York City. I had been playing with several cameras, trying to find the one that would fit this project the best. My #1 choice, the Holga 120, was really not the best tool for this—in general, the square format does not do true justice to the landscape format required by the storefront, and it ends up needing to be cropped, which is a real waste of film. So with that, I’ll always be appreciative that the Littlest Holga allowed me to shoot a roll of 120 Shanghai GP3 in Shanghai before I left, to go along with the roll of 35mm GP3 I shot too. I wouldn’t have been able to do so otherwise.
And, of course, it had to be reasonably cheap to buy and operate. I’m not a millionaire-in-waiting, after all.This camera is simple. It has one shutter button, a fixed wide angle lens and that is it. The colours are vivid with great vignetting and the results can be fun as well are artistic. If you're worried about all the settings on the Diana Mini or Holga 135bc then perhaps this is the camera for you, although you can't do multiple exposures. This camera is cheap and also comes in a fun variety of colours. And with the camera overall, I’d recommend leaving your serious face at home, knowing that you have no idea what results it’s going to give you, and just enjoying it for what it is. With that fixed shutter speed, I’d recommend loading an ISO 400 film for more leeway with the light. With that viewfinder, I’d recommend thinking of it as a rough guide rather than an accurate representation of what you’ll get. Fortunately most film has plenty of latitude. So over and under exposure is not that big of a deal. The shutter speed is about 1/ 100 th of a second. The aperture switch is marked as cloudy and sunny (f8 and f11). It’s been my experience that the 120 cameras have a faulty switch and the aperture doesn’t actually change. So this would suggest that the aperture is a constant f8. However, I think the T-Stop is somewhere around t11 – t16. Probably due to the poor light transmission of the plastic lens. There’s gonna be a little math involved in figuring out which film to use.
I was going gangbusters on my old storefront project, and I was planning on continuing with it in my native Buenos Aires, where the same phenomenon of old, distinctive, non-chain commerce being razed to the ground and replaced by stores and buildings that look like any place in the world is also taking place. But here I ran into a problem: in Buenos Aires oldest and narrowest streets (likeliest to have the oldest stores in the land), the Holga 135BC put me too close to the storefronts themselves, and I had to literally stand on the street (putting my life at certain risk!) or deal with trees on the sidewalks, making it impossible to get the shot. It's evident from all the photos above that both of these cameras can produce beautiful photos, especially in bright, natural light. Although the mechanics of the cameras are very similar the lenses in both cameras are different, and it's these differences that will influence your decision on which camera to get and how you take your photos. First of all, let’s say one thing: if this camera is named TLR, it is not exactly a real Twin Lens Reflex camera. The viewing lens is really just a fixed viewing lens and you can’t focus with it as it’s not related to the shooting lens (unlike the “real” TLR’s where the 2 lenses are related for focusing). But this doesn’t mean that you can’t have the fun and joy to shoot in the true spirit of TLR!The good news is that they are both great little cameras so which ever decision you make, I don't think it will be the wrong one and to be honest, if you love them as much as I do, you'll probably end up getting both anyway... Other than the size and the mechanical differences of 35mm film vs. 120 the Holga 135 is very much the same as the original Holga 120. It still has that same toy camera feel and delivers that same "Holga look" that made the original such a hit. If you like the Holga 120 but would rather get more shots per roll: the 135 is for you. If you wanted to try a Holga but were intimidated by medium format film: the 135 is for you. My Take: First up is a bunch of lens adapters, which are simple attachments that slide over the barrel of the existing lens and change its field of view. These include a wide-angle, a telephoto and a few different fisheye versions. You can also get macro and close-up lens adapter sets.
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