Shot with the Holga 120wpc
I’m not sure if the rainy season is officially over or not, but HIGH SUMMER seems to have kicked in with plus thirty degree weather and enough UV to burn my arms through an already solid tan.
OH MY GOD! AUTOMATIC SKIN CANCER!
Last week I was hanging my head in dismay over a roll of Velvia that had come out under-developed-to-black in every last shot. I couldn’t even tease a viewable image out of the roll in Photo Shop.
I was thinking that my light meter had gone ka-blooey. I had been having trouble with it for a while. It wasn’t agreeing with the light meter on my Pentax a lot of times. And it never agreed with the exposure times suggested for the pinhole camera. Sometimes the light meter was the right one to follow for exposure times, and sometimes the guide Holga provided was dead on.
Turned out the first problem was me being a bonehead and not realizing that the light meter was metering a much wider area than the lens on the Pentax and was getting more than the light from the subject I was trying to shoot. As for the second problem, I think it’s that the light meter was better at giving me a better exposure time lower light conditions.
Anyway, that under-exposed film was under-exposed because I was assuming it was a 400 speed film, and was metering as such.
It was 50.
Now, I don’t remember buying the 50iso stuff. I thought I only got the 100iso film and I had used both rolls up already. But the little letters on the edges of the film confirm it.
It had just been so long since I had loaded the camera that I forgot what was inside the camera. I also forgot to stick the label on the back. Human error again. My light meter seems good. My memory, not so much.
I might have to get that Pentax K7 after all. Let the computers handle all of that difficult thinking stuff.
The shot above was taken by following the guide on the Holga and counting to seven.
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