The Holga WPC (Wide Pinhole Camera) is one of the camera I own that probably has only been out to play once or twice. As I had an appointment around noon in Chinatown, I decided to bring this wide baby some fun. I was a little worried because I’ve always screwed up exposures when shooting pinholes, and I am always too damn lazy to do some maths to calculate the exposure times. Oh well … again … I depended on luck and prayed all the way to the lab. Being one who hates to lug around a tripod, I had no choice but to bring one along for these shots.
The two rolls I did today turned out errr … okay or perhaps slightly okay. One first problem I realised when I collected the rolls from the lab … something was appearing on the right side of each and every frame! Something blurry and takes up about 3% space on the right of the frames! Damn! I thought my fat fingers were the culprit but I was also damn sure that using a cable release, there was no way my fingers could be hanging around in front of the camera! Oh no! So what happened?
Upon closer inspection, I realised a small piece of soft plastic sheet was stuck on the side of the pinhole. Not exactly in front of the hole itself, but on the outer ring of the pinhole area. Where did that come from? Aha! Then I remembered there was a thin plastic sheet that was covering the outing ring area, and I ripped it off when one side of it wasn’t sticking well. A little of that plastic sheet was caught between the parts and I didn’t completely remove it, thinking that little plastic piece … pretty far from the pinhole won’t cause any ‘damage’. 😛 I had to crop off a little on the sides to remove that ugly blur thing that appeared in all the shots. Grrrr!
These are the 6 shots from a roll of expired Ektachrome 100 …
The other roll was a roll of long expired Agfa Optima 100. The last few rolls of this same film turn out okay on some other cameras but it had a blue cast in this one. Well that ain’t too big a problem to me though. The guy at the lab told me ‘Ooops! One of the frame had a long scratch on it’ and was surprised when I told him ‘it’s okay … maybe it will make the photo look nicer!’ 😀
Getting only 6 shots outta a roll of 120 film on this camera ain’t too good a ‘toy’ to play with too often … so I’ll take another break before loading it again. 😛