just before I brought myself up here to the Outer Hebrides I picked up, for a very few £ indeed – £10 or so, a Holga lens in a micro 4/3 fit. I used to have the original medium format film Holga camera, before I broke it, and rather enjoyed the somewhat distorted & heavily vignetted images in produced. The plastic lenses are now available in various mounts for digital cameras which is rather a fun thing. Mine came from the far east via fleabay. Postie delivered it as I was packing my gear for the trip north so without unpacking it I tossed it in my bag and forgot all about it. Until yesterday that is while digging around for a clean(er) pair of socks… With 90km/hr winds and driving rain the weather was fundamentally unsuited to anything much except for a walk out onto the exposed west coast with my GF1 & Holga lens in my pocket. The weather suited the lens.. or rather the lens suited the weather. Whichever way you look it the images seem appropriate to the bleak nature of this island when a storm blows in…
Anyway, enough of that. Last weekend was the Barra & Vatersay Produce Show… an important event on the local cultural calendar… really it’s just a heap of fun and while some folk take it deadly seriously most seem content to have a good laugh.. and unintentionally come away some prizes…
Finally, before I crack on with more kayak repairs, and completely unrelated to any of the above.. an evening scene on Vatersay snapped while on the way to the beach for a surf.
Nice !
Like the holga shots – I actually use a a Holga 35mm at the moment but the cost of processing is so expensive! Is it the genuine crappy plastic lens with the little people on the outside of the focus ring? Looks like great fun.
hey, it is indeed the same, crappy lump of plastic with the people on the focus ring. It’s ace :-)