Comments for All Hail the Holga? at http://www.foto8.com/home , comment 1 to 11 out of 11 comments http://www.foto8.com/home Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:36:55 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.foto8.com/home/content/view/434/226/#comment-68 I just joined the site because I wanted to comment. I only very recently got a Holga. I have shot 2 rolls of film and I am in love. I never want to put it down. There is something about not knowing exactly what I'll get that is so appealing. I'm thinking of getting a second one so I can keep one loaded with black and white and one with colour all the time. I think most Holga photos have more character and appeal than crisp, clear shots I've seen a million times. Then, I've always found the gritty appeals to my senses so the Holga was a perfect match for me. I could go on for hours. - JenSavage Sat, 10 May 2008 05:16:56 +0100 http://www.foto8.com/home/content/view/434/226/#comment-66 Thanks for your comments guys. In response, Nick don't you think that if all art were solely the product of process and the accuracy of that process - then the art that surrounds us would lack something? Perhaps the Holga isn't an instrument for creating masterpieces but every artist needs a muse... Josh, I think the fact that the Holga lends itself to being physically adapted allows the photographer to take joy in controlling the mechanical process, thus producing the desired artistic effect. Just like a painter controls the colours he uses to make an image, whether abstract or realist. I'm far from qualified to say what art is. I think Holgography is 'an' art - one of many ways we choose to represent our lives and our surroundings. - Rosie Thu, 01 May 2008 15:09:35 +0100 http://www.foto8.com/home/content/view/434/226/#comment-64 i love my holga... each camera is unique, and that's one of the things i like about it. after time you get to know it better, and take better pictures with it. sometimes the results are accidental, but often they're not... mine has a light leek at the bottom, sometimes i tape it up and sometimes i don't... i even adapted it to shoot 35mm... it was a bit rubbish, but there you go... art it can be! - Josh Thu, 01 May 2008 12:31:36 +0100 http://www.foto8.com/home/content/view/434/226/#comment-63 Sorry Rosie, but you've found a hater now - well, not a hater exactly, but I find it hard to admire such a pile of junk as that camera. As for the pictures, there are some stunners among them, but how you can see them as more than (occasionally) happy accidents defeats me. It's a bit like the infinite number of monkeys typing infinitely on an infinite number of typewriters... and there's not much to admire in that as a process. Fun it may be (for a moment or two, anyway); art it ain't! - Nick Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:00:43 +0100 http://www.foto8.com/home/content/view/434/226/#comment-62 Thanks for all the comments everyone, there don't seem to be many haters out there... Hope everyone had a Holga moment in the sunshine this weekend. Our flickr page is awash with competition entries, keep them coming: http://www.flickr.com/groups/foto_8/ - Rosie Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:38:39 +0100 http://www.foto8.com/home/content/view/434/226/#comment-61 they are lovely i especially like the traffic light i think i have seen it somewhere before!!! - Haroo Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:10:20 +0100 http://www.foto8.com/home/content/view/434/226/#comment-60 Check out this from the very beginning of Foto8. Issue 1 on the web in 1998, we were very simple back then but the pictures are still beautiful and all Holga... Nader Ebramhimi http://www.foto8.com/issue01/dnader/dnader.html - jonlevy Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:56:32 +0100 http://www.foto8.com/home/content/view/434/226/#comment-59 I am a lover for sure. Bought a holga 5 years ago now and it has been the fastest five years of my life - filled with colour, overlpas, light splashes, distortions and quality that I would argue, can never be emulated with the clear precision and contrived nature of perhaps more 'serious' cameras. Using a holga loosens up your preconceptions about creativity and can inject a new zest of passion for photography. - Rebecca Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:15:46 +0100 http://www.foto8.com/home/content/view/434/226/#comment-58 I was in Hong Kong studying last year at that point i carried my LC-A every where with me and thought that it was the b all and end all of Lomographic cameras until one of my friends from hong kong told me to buy one and for the price of 8 pound i couldn't really say no! and have never looked back since i love it!!!! - Haroo Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:17:14 +0100 http://www.foto8.com/home/content/view/434/226/#comment-56 Thanks for the information Steve, we know where to go now if our Holga breaks in Dubai! What's your opinion on the camera? Do you have one? - Rosie French Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:44:53 +0100 http://www.foto8.com/home/content/view/434/226/#comment-55 I was in Dubai last week meeting gallery G-1 and they sell Holgas - there is a huge fanbase of users in the Middle East and they have decided to set a seperate area aside for these cameras! - steve mac Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:21:37 +0100