Toy Cameras: Holga Film Double Exposures

Video Transcript

"Now after I've taken my picture I want to advance, and this is another beauty of the Holga. I could forget to advance. There's no motor drive, there's nothing; I have to do it with my fingers, I go from 1 to 2. Now here's where the Holga gets kind of fun; if I want to take a double exposure, or if I want to connect a frame, and this is where I really got into using these cameras, because I could start to manipulate images the way that I wanted them to work. And this is kind of where the Holga, again, there's just, there's this debate. The Holga is sort of a one trick pony; it does one thing really well. It makes very soft, very dreamy images, and it does it perfectly, but that's all it can do. It's kind of like the dog that can only do really one trick. But I feel that sometimes you can draw a couple of other tricks out of this camera. The easiest is just to do double exposures, meaning that I could just keep clicking this frame, thus building up exposures, which is pretty cool sometimes, or I can actually connect my frames, making almost a panoramic."