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A simple Holga question (I hope)

As for the original question I had the some problem on a German TLR regarding the flash setting M or X covering lever, which one was selected?
 
Harry Stevens said:
As for the original question I had the some problem on a German TLR regarding the flash setting M or X covering lever, which one was selected?
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X is for strobes and M is for M class flashbulbs. X fires immediately and M has a delay for the bulb to get up to near full brightness.
 

hi michtimm
you have realized the charm of holga.
the slider does absolutely nothing. it actually
slides a LARGER hole over a small hole so ... nothing
 
jnanian said:
hi michtimm
you have realized the charm of holga.
the slider does absolutely nothing. it actually
slides a LARGER hole over a small hole so ... nothing
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That's not true of later versions. That so called "charm" was a legitimate (if not glaring) manufacturer's defect. It was eventually corrected. If the sun is pictured, you're shooting at ~f/20. If the clouds are pictured, you're shooting at ~f/13. These values are optimized for 400 speed film, since the shutter speed is constant. But I wouldn't get too fussy about exposure control with a Holga. I almost always leave it wide open (clouds).

To see if you have a working aperture switch, take the camera back off and set the camera to Bulb setting. Now hold the shutter open under each aperture setting. It's pretty easy to see if the size of the hole changes.
 
Harry Stevens said:
As for the original question I had the some problem on a German TLR regarding the flash setting M or X covering lever, which one was selected?
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Sirius Glass said:
X is for strobes and M is for M class flashbulbs. X fires immediately and M has a delay for the bulb to get up to near full brightness.
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Harry's problem wasn't that. It was: "How do you select X (or M)? By covering it with the selector, or uncovering it with the selector?"
 
I've been able to figure out the shutter speeds on my old/toy cameras (Hawkeyes, even Isolettes) - but I have a video camera that shoots up to 120fps. I shoot a few clicks, open the file on the computer, count the frames and do the math. So my Hawkeye is about 1/25 - 1/30th; the Isolette I use the most, all shutter speeds are about half what they say, so I leave it a 1/300th and it works out to metering at 1/125th. Geeky but easy to do if you have a camera that does that level of slowmo.
 
M Carter said:
...all shutter speeds are about half what they say...
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Randy from Holgamods has recently said the same thing - he's never found a Holga to be more than 1/60th of a second, in all of his years of working on them, despite the fact that common knowledge puts them at around 1/100.
 
mooseontheloose said:
Randy from Holgamods has recently said the same thing - he's never found a Holga to be more than 1/60th of a second, in all of his years of working on them, despite the fact that common knowledge puts them at around 1/100.
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I was referring to my Isolette shutter - I chopped up my holga before you could just buy the lens, mounted the lens on a couple springs and shot a music video - I could twist and move the lens that way to get crazy burns and distortions. Looked really pretty, too:

 

thank you for posting these, they are beautiful !
 
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