Modified Holga in the Snow (Holga 120 Pan winter photography)
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
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After an unexpected stretch of winter weather my darkroom water supply froze solid. Since I wasn't able to finish the Mount Carmel Monastery episode I decided to so some shooting with the recently modified Holga 120 Pan panoramic camera (Olga) and 21-Orange black and white filter. The entire camera modification video is here • "Super Holga" HOLGA 12...
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I used a 21 Orange filter to help balance the exposure so it would be possible to shoot in the bright midday sunlight. Moreover, I wanted to test the newly modified filter/hood system. There will be a full episode covering the use of all the modifications made to the Holga 120 Pan in a future production.
All photographs shown in th episode were produced on Ilford FP4 125 Plus medium format film and developed in my modified "FP4 Poison" caffenol black and white developer. Speaking of that...
NOTES:
Two rolls of Ilford HP5 Plus 400 were also exposed. Unfortunately, as shown at 05:30 in the episode, both rolls turned out to be completely blank. No trace of exposure, not even any frame signing. Essentially, the only possible reason for this is if a film receives ZERO development. Commonly this occurs when the film chemistry is either non-operational or used in reverse order. An example would be using fixer prior to developer. As I mix my own developer on a per-batch basis, I am certain there was no mixup. Neither do I believe there was an issue with my ingredients as the proceeding rolls developed as expected. At this point, I am at a loss as to why the two rolls of HP5 developed blank along with (as is obvious) the "pinkish" color of the film base. The base coloration immediately caused me to think I had confused the black and white film with color C-41 process but this turned out to not be the case.
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Got to love the shutter sound of a holga! Great images Adam, and I hope you are doing well wherever you are.
Thanks a lot, my friend! I hope you're making it alright. I want to get back down towards your way soon. Really been missing the southwest lately.
Great detail in the snow! Love the cat showing up. Yes, the no images on the film is a strange one.
Ha I literally just sent you an email on this prior to heading over here. Yes, it's quite stange and there's really only two explanations with both of those being extremely unlikely. At any rate I just hope that roll you have turns out better than these two!
Love the mailboxes. They’ve got a feel. Really well done Adam.
Thanks, Lee. That's quite literally the mailbox I grew up with going back to the days when the address wasn't even a road...just a "Rural Route." That thing has been there no less than 55 years at this point.
Also grew up on a rural route. Party line telephone. Our mailbox wasn’t as nice though.
@@Festgriff Really I think point I think we should both be ashamed for assuming the gender of our respective boxes....
I read your profile, got as far as "alt processes" and bam, subscribed. In the 80s and 90s I did a lot of alt-processes, and just now getting back into them, especially bromoil now that i've made a bromoil transfer press, and gumoil which also has the expressive results I tend to like in b&W
Truly glad to have you here, John. I've never tried gum personally but I love the process. The majority of my alt/historic printing centers around a sickening obsession with cyanotype manipulation using washi papers. I also salt print but haven't done so in a while due to the humidity where I'm currently located. Drying times in the portable darkroom are just too long, lot's of splotching as well and I was burning through silver. I'm going to pick back up again once we head back out to the desert for a while.
the results are better than I expected.
Thanks a lot. I'm literally mixing my developer for those next two rolls as we speak. I'll be sharing them (if they turn out) in an episode down the line when I talk about the few observations I've made so far on the modded 120Pan.
Geat video, and looks like great place to live.
Best wishes from New Zealand.
Thanks a lot, Mark! Glad you enjoyed it.
I loved those photos. Awesome eye.
Thanks very much, Stuart! I greatly appreciate the kind words.
Thanks for sharing Adam hope your pleased with how the Holga turned out after the modifications
Quite pleased so far, everything seems to function as hoped EXCEPT for the foam film tensioners. The friction actually pulled them completely off the rear door. I'll put up an update of the project here in a few weeks hopefully.
Thats a shame Adam l was planning on fitting them to my Holga but thank you for sharing you videos.@@AdamWelch
@@stevenwhite921 I still think it's a workable concept. Really, I feel like I just had the foam far to thick. I'll likely try again with a foam thickness maybe half of what I originally went with in the video. At any rate a bit of stronger glue would have likely solved the problem but I wouldn't want to add too much friction to the film advance. And please do let me know if you try it yourself.
I have fitted some foam around the shutter lever inside the Holga to help prevent light leaks + a few other little tweaks which were demonstrated by Martin Henson here on RUclips..if l cam make a little suggestion and l do know its all trial and error Adam but instead of cutting the foam you have maybe try a foam that isn't so dense (softer) but still enough to add tension just a thought:) @@AdamWelch
@@stevenwhite921 I've actually got a pressure plate in the works so hopefully the whole thing will become a non-issue soon.
Holga's looking good!!!..............But I think Lady was insulted by having her sould taken and revenge stole all the HP5 emulsion.
Haha you may be right. Then again...I think she is a Tri-X type of girl so maybe that was it? haha
How do you get such sharp photos? Mine is coming out all blurry/shaky and overexposed. What's going on? I have also noticed that the shutter is stiff. Can I lubricate it?
It's difficult to quantify sharpness, but I will say I do often get blurred frames due to either camera shake or wrong estimations in my focus distance. In terms of the overexposure, this is in no way connected to the sharpness. I've found it's best to use film of a MINIMUM speed of ISO 400. It's a good idea to run with the "sunny 16" guide with this. On a cloudless sunny day the shutter speed is "1" over whatever ISO your film happens to be. So in the case of the Holga cameras, this would be the same as using an ISO 100 film to go along with the "Sunny" setting since the "N" shutter speed is roughly 1/100 sec. All this to say that the shutter might well need to be lubricated if it's overly stiff and causes undue motion from the pressure needed to actuate the mechanism. A drop of appropriate oil to the central shutter pin should help. Here's an explanation of that I found on Flickr. www.flickr.com/photos/wstryder/4034983051
@@AdamWelch thank you, that helps a lot
Recently I developed a film, starting with the fixer. That experience of life is bad. Never again.
Still not sure what happened with those two rolls. The joys of film 😅
@@AdamWelch ahaha yes