Toy Cameras: Taping Light Holes in a Holga

Video Transcript

"Okay, so to begin using this Holga toy camera, there's a few things you got to know, and they're really, they're pretty essential to successful use of the toy camera. Number one is that this camera is sort of famous for having light leaks, and it really does have quite a few light leaks. And if you could see inside to the camera here, I have taken some electric tape. Now, electric tape is your friend with these cameras; I mean it sounds kind of sketchy, but believe it or not, you really need the tape. And there's a few holes up in here that are actually by design in this camera that it's absolutely essential that unless you like light leaks on your film, and believe it or not, some people do, that you want to tape them up. And you want to tape them up very well, and really make sure that you do it correctly. Now after you've got that taken care of, the back of this camera is not, I mean this the design of this camera is truly horrible. You want to use tape to tape up where the hinges were on this camera. I've taken the hinges off this camera cause believe it or not, they make the camera work worse, if you can actually believe that. And in a minute, I'm going to show you actually how to load up the camera, and that's a really important thing to do also. And it fits just like that. It's like a little puzzle, and you take your tape, and you put them right over there."