Toy Cameras: Holga Flash Button

Video Transcript

"So back to using the flash, this flash again is a very expensive flash. It's a professional flash to use and again it almost adds to the humor of using this camera. You have a very cheap camera and expensive flash but you don't need an expensive flash. I've seen students of mine pick up flashes at you know thrift stores, garage sales as long as it could mount to a hot shoe, you can use the flash. The one good thing about this flash is that it has a fill flash on it. It's called TTL mode. So, I can really actually make my exposures look great you know. Sometimes, I actually don't even know sometimes if I took the image with a Holga or with a really expensive professional medium format camera. It's that good. The other thing when you're using a flash that you want to make sure of is there is a little button on the side here and again in the wonderful Holga graphics, there's a sun and a flash. You want to make sure you're on flash and what that is it's the shutter scene to the flash. If you're on sun mode, it's not going to work. It's really not going to work at all. So, you want to make sure you're on flash. And sometimes again back to my tape thing, I tape this down because it's really easy to move this button by accident and then all your work will not come out."