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Norm Yip
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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.

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wow pretty cool. i like the old school feeling! Do you use a digital SLR for your regular work now? or do you still use film?
16 年多 ago
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to silky...erm...well, the camera literally is a piece of plastic. very light-weight, but takes pictures. the design is so bad that it has light leak (bad bad bad as far as a camera is concerned), and uses film. it has manual function for nearly everything and has no light meter. I guess the beauty of any fully manual camera is that you do not know what will turn out, or what will not. mistakes and errors are part of the joy. hence, the double exposed photographs you see are accidents, but suprisingly beautiful to say the least. sometimes, in photography, we desire control of all the elements to obtain the perfect image. the Holga however is very limiting and hence, you have to follow by it's rules. i am not what you would call a Holga fan; it is just nice to get a different look from the more predictable image taking of our automatic counterparts. to etchy...i use both film and digital, depending on the situation and effect i want to achieve. all of my artistic work is film; digital is still flat and the pixel structure is inferior to the molecular structure of grain on film. (sorry for sounding to techy...but the outcome to me is noticeable).
16 年多 ago
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the holga is so badly made it hurts me to use it. for a square format, i could go the hasselblad route, which would go for maybe US$1800. i used to LUST for one of those dream machines....
16 年多 ago
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incidentally, Josh is one of the guys on my friends list to the right...he's a filmmaker in korea. I also took the shot of him with the green-grey background using a Mamiya 645 camera.
16 年多 ago

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Never in my dreams as a little child did I ever think I would come to live, work and play in Hong Kong. Born in Canada to Chinese parents, I moved here in 1994

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english, cantonese
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Hong Kong
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male
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May 31, 2007