Fomapan 400 with Holga – plastic medium format camera – part viii

 
Hello here ! Surprisingly I found now 3 already developed, scanned and ready for publishing rolls created with the wonderful combination of the plastic Holga 120GN (glass lens, not a plastic one) medium format camera and the Fomapan 400 expired film. I purchased a small stock of this film some time ago and still have a few rolls in my fridge – I’m not lazy, but a slow photographer with every media – digital and analog – sure analog makes me, even more, thinking and planning before every click. The beauty of the Holga camera is its inconstancy and unpredictability, and now I also found that this specific copy that I used already 11 years somehow lost the “sharp” focusing possibilities, bcos for the recent roll I used the same camera owned by my son, and I found some differences in the details and the focused areas. But I’m not sure, still checking this and will post the results taken with this “no my” camera soon.

Yes, yes already 11 years of my Holga expiration. I used it for a year after purchasing and somehow got a strong feeling of disappointment bcos I wanted to see this crazy quality of the 6×6 huge frames, but I had something more fluid, muted, blurred and impermanent, and I looked for the consistency in results – I just started taking pictures on the film and wanted to learn the process by my mistakes and not by the camera mood at some specific day. Its took the long 5 years to return back to the plastic creature, but this time with this idea – only one film (Fomapan 400) and always stand developed in Rodinal (thanks, it’s easy to store already opened Rodinal bottle – with the time it’s changing the color and the smell, but still working well).

I started this second life as the Holga shooter in the far “January 2017” when I took it to Jerusalem. The weather was horrible (read perfect). Heavy rain poured nonstop, but the city was busy by the tourists and the locals preparing for the cold and rainy weekend. I used the only two cameras during this trip to Jerusalem – both film – this Holga and the small Ricoh GR1s. The results I got just fascinated me so and the idea about the Holga-Fomapan-Rodinal cooperation was born this day.

Check these sources of inspiration of published by the people also using this camera just different films and methods of developing:

 
“HOLGA WEEK | KATIE MOLLON”

“Istanbul on a Holga”

“PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY WITH A HOLGA WPC”

“Holga Week”

“5 Tips for Shooting with the Holga Toy Camera”