A few years ago I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Michelle Bates, a photographer based in north-west Washington state who is also the author of the excellent book
"Plastic Cameras".
She does very interesting work, including using Holgas and other similar cameras to document events.
One of her practical pieces of advice? If you use something like a Holga, Diana or similar, don't be surprised if some piece or pieces of it falls apart mid event.
I would use a 400 speed film and a flash (when required) - for the fun of it only.
And I would take and use it for fun. If I saw anything that required higher fidelity, I'd use either a good small 35mm camera, or a cel phone to supplement my results.
I'm going to preference this with, I don't know if it'll work out, but it could be fun.
Anyway, I have brought an Olympus Trip 35 to a wedding to try out something similar. I put in ISO 400 film, set it to the widest aperture (2.8), and used the default 1/40sec. I would say most of my indoor shots came out fine. The place wasn't as dimly lit as a bar, but not bright either. Trying to calculate that for ISO 3200, f/8, and the default 1/100sec, that would put you more than a stop under what I had.
Being in a barn this time of year, I would think there's the chance of some natural light coming through. It gets dark pretty late unless you're heading south of the equator.
Reference picture:
Why a Holga?
I’d rather use a box camera to be honest.
Best of luck. If you are happy to, let us see the results when the negs arrive back from the lab you use to develop them
pentaxuser
I like how the photos from the Holga look, that's pretty much it. I don't have a box camera or a huge collection in general. I may end up using portra 800 in my point and shoot to be safe.
Not often we agree, but I'm with you 100 percent on this.
Over expose and overdevelop.
A lot can be salvaged in post.
Anything is better than a Holga.
A hazard of taking wedding photographs or any event is that in my experience I can either enjoy the event or take photographs but not both.
Luckily, I am not the actual photographer for the event, they will have a professional photographer. I just want to take photos of my friends for my own enjoyment. I am kind of leaning towards bringing my mju point and shoot with portra 800 and just having fun, especially because I can put that camera in my pocket and it has built in flash. That will probably be the smartest choice practically, since actually managing the camera during the event will probably be annoying, and I'd rather not have my SLR around a bunch of drunk people, + I'd have to set it down if I end up doing a bit of dancing. But I will definitely be experimenting with Ilford 3200 with the Holga in the near future, somewhere!
Have a look at the above link, posted in the last few days.
Judging from the results achieved in the video by a very competent photographer, you may get lucky and have the Holga stolen.
You could then make a claim on the insurance.
Use one of your other cameras, film is just to expensive to waste.
It will be an interesting experience if you persevere with it.
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I wonder if Carl Zeiss is secretly making the Holga lenses to stay in medium format photography??
I think that is Carl Scheisse making the lenses.
I think that is Carl Scheisse making the lenses.
I've been trying to get my hands on a Helge, but I'll have to go with the Holga for now
That being said, this is making me lean slightly towards using Portra 800 with my SLR this time around. I really want to get good photos from this event and it would be a shame for the experiment to go wrong.
Cute.
The only reason anyone ever heard of a Holga is that some arsehole in the 90s thought it would be ironic and “cool” to import Chinese exploitation junk to western hipsters.
He also imported other slightly less crappy (but only slightly) eastern block consumer cameras and called the venture Lomo, to remind everyone how kooky and subversive it all was.
When shooting a Holga you are falling for a thirty year old cynical sales pitch.
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