[matthew]

Is anyone else a fan of those blurry grainy and distorted images that come from cheap plastic pretend Russian cameras? I'm considering getting one (and passing it to a proper photographer to record my wedding with), but I don't really know were to start. Has anybody on here got one? I currently use a Panasonic FZ-7 and have never used a film SLR. As such I know very little about the subject.
I was thinking of getting a Holga, but is 35mm or 120 better? Should I get one with a flash?

Cheers,

Matt

[SA Chris]

I've got a fisheye, ran a roll of film through it, then it broke. Bit of a novelty, but probably wouldn't have used it much again anyway

[Monolith]

I bought my ex bard one and played around with it for a while. Was cheap enough and I got some great joiners on the go. Think I might have started a thread on this not long after I got it. Maybe there's some links within (I remember Chris mentioning some things..).

Oh and I remember climbing up this really interesting leafless tree somewhere in a forest near Betwys and taking some pretty cool photos of said girl from above. She wasn't playing the clothes off arty ball game for one second though. Shame 

[SA Chris]

You have an ex-bard? Did it die?

[Bubba]

An easier way might just be to use a normal digi cam then use Photoshop to create the lomo effect. There's a lot of tutorials about and some of them are pretty good.

[matthew]

Yeah I've just spent half an hour trying to install the script for a lomo-style filter onto GIMP... not having much luck with it. The joys and despairs of opensource...

Having seen the cost to develop 120format film I think if I go for one 35mm is definitely the right option!

[Bubba]

Get a snide copy of Photoshop - pisses all over Gimp.

[Eddies]

Ive got a Holga 120FN (the one with the flash) ive taken shit loads of films with it and id say 8 out of 12 shots developed are hourse shit!

Lomo's are notoriously unpredictable so dont gamble your best wedding photos on one, but give one to a friend with a bag full of mixed film and your bound to get a few magic shots.

[matthew]

We have a proper photographer to! Yeah the general plan was to give it to some artistic looking youth and tell him to snap away. Where do you get your 120mm films developed?

[Eddies]

www.peak-imaging.co.uk

Unfortunately developing medium format film is pretty damn expensive 

[cofe]

peak have just put their prices up too.

[dave]

peak are still cheaper than most places though, and good service. expensive way of getting shit flaky results, especially if ten on every roll are garbage. However if i was shooting one of them shit holgas in the true spirit of random outcomes this camera embraces i'd just chuck the film in a load of random chemicals and see what happens.

[Johnny Brown]

Metro are a bit cheaper. I don't think either are expensive in the great scheme of things though.

[Eddies]

I was looking into getting a decent neg scanner to save cost of printing lots of crap photos but in the end just decided to stop taking lots of crap photos!
Got myself a new digital camera instead!

B+W film in the holga works well for me as there is less to go 'wrong'