Photo Locus

A couple of days ago my new plastic camera arrived from Hong Kong. I’m still waiting on the film I ordered arriving so in the meantime I’m trying to do a little prep.

As mentioned before, my experience with film is pretty limited so my plan is to set the 50D up with approximate settings for the Holga in the hope of getting the exposure right before shooting in film. I know; that is not in the spirit of analogue but it’s something I’m going to try until I get used to working things out the old way.

The Holga has 2 aperture settings – sunny and cloudy. I had read the settings made no difference so I did some digging and came across this article. They explain it great detail so I’m going to take their word for it that the only aperture available is ~f13. The shutter speed is around 1/125.

So I put my digital camera in manual mode and entered the following settings:

• Shutter speed 1/125
• Aperture f13
• ISO 400 (to match my film)
• White balance daylight (for daylight balanced film)

It might be a pointless exercise but what I have learnt so far is this:- do not try shooting indoors on a dark day with this setting! Hurray for the bulb function on the Holga 120N!

Tags: analogue, Canon 50D, Holga, medium format . This entry was posted on Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 3:08 pm and is filed under Holga. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.