Toy Cameras: More Holga Loading Tips

Video Transcript

"Once I see that my take-up spool is moving correctly, I'm going to move this slowly till I see that arrow. Now seeing that arrow is a pretty common you know, a pretty common way to know that you're loading your medium format camera correctly. That means that you're doing it right. Now, the back of this camera has two slots, a twelve, and a sixteen. I'm shooting twelve frames with a square format, so I want to make sure that I'm on twelve. If I'm on sixteen, I'm going to get overlapping frames, and the sixteen; this is sort of technical, is when I have the 645 format in there. But I have 120 six by six format in there, and that's the format I really like to shoot. So I want to make sure it's on the twelve, which it is, and then I close up this back nicely. Now you want to do all of what I just did in subdued light. You don't want to do this outside in the bright sun, because this film really is only paper and film, so you're going to, you might fog your film. And sometimes that's really why Holga has this bad reputation of fogging is really because there's not, you know, people load them in bright light, and that's how your film gets fogged."