Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------CE5C5CFA283446B239D1BC10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Joe Stephenson wrote: > > Dear Carl, > Can you please explain to me what is "fun" about a Holga. I was in a > workshop last summer where two people were using Holga's. I couldn't see the > point. Especially when I've got three capable, full-featured cameras with > good lenses. What am I missing? > Sincerely, > Joe Stephenson > ++++++++++ > Carl wrote: > My assistant has a Holga and after seeing the fun he has with it I'm > thinking seriously about scraping together the $20 and buying one. I > like the bokeh. > Carl Socolow Joe, At last count I have 6 Canon bodies of various ages and capabilities, 3 Hasselblad bodies, 3 Leica bodies, a couple view cameras and a fortune in lenses for all of the above. Using them I have made a good living and I have strived for realizing the best images possible for my clients and my reputation. I constantly strive for technical mastery, control and somewhere in there creative interpretation of the subject matter. The Holga kind of reminds me of Tom Cruise's line in the movie Risky Business. To wit: "Sometimes you just have to say What the F--k." In a way it's the anti-camera. It's not precise. So much of what I do is rational. So much of what this group discourses on is the rationality and repeatability of photography, the standardization, as it were. The Holga blows it all away. It obligates you to accept serendipity. To lose control. As much as I love what I do it sometimes becomes a job; truly one that I wouldn't know what to do otherwise. So the Holga, strictly for me, would be a chance to play. On the other hand, the more I think about this, I might have to test some Scala in it and see if I can sell its application to an art director or two. And then I can get paid to use it. Carl Socolow - --------------CE5C5CFA283446B239D1BC10 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="csocolow.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for csocolow Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="csocolow.vcf" begin:vcard n:Socolow;Carl x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Socolow Photography adr:;;;Camp Hill;PA;17011;USA version:2.1 email;internet:csocolow@microserve.net note:ICQ 9562608 fn:Carl Socolow end:vcard - --------------CE5C5CFA283446B239D1BC10--