Holga

Our friend Josh took a few photos of Madison using a Holga 35 mm camera he brought with him to work. Just recently, he emailed the photos this way - I'll share with you a couple below:

The Holga camera is just a plastic toy camera, made in China. The cheap design and simple lens often makes pictures that have vignetting, blur, light leaks, and other unexpected distortions.

These effects can be added with iPhoto to any picture, of course - but the novelty of using this camera and having the negatives turn out that way naturally is much more fun. We haven't tampered with these images at all once they've been developed. It is my understanding that this camera has a "cult following" with photographers. In fact, I'm kind of interested in getting one now!

Anyway, it's been a neat thing to play with the last week or two. We've seen some great images taken with it. The Holga camera is a little plastic camera that takes images "dripping with color, contrast, a slight softness, and a whole lotta soul."