Holga 120 WPC Pinhole Camera Tutorial + Field Test (Panoramas On Medium Format Film)

[Music] hey how's it going uh adrian here from ah photography and i have a new camera here that's pretty interesting that i just barely picked up i found this i was like on amazon for something else and i saw like an ad or recommendation or something for it and thought it was pretty cool i have another friend that has shot i think it was with the same brand i don't know if it's the same camera but he told me about some pinhole medium format camera and photography that he took so i was kind of interested into it and after looking a little bit into it and it wasn't too expensive i decided to get it and now it's here so i'm just going to do a quick review or an overview of this camera and then i'm gonna go out and shoot with it so what i have here is the holga 120 wpc and it is a pinhole camera that uses medium format film all right so i'm just gonna show you how it works and then we'll go out and shoot it so pinhole cameras um actually the very first film photograph i have ever taken was with a pinhole camera that i made when i was in a photography class in eighth grade in junior high so the very first experience i've ever had was with film was actually with a pinhole camera that i made in the class so this is the same exact concept just plastic i made mine out of like a cylinder so um this shoots six by 12 aspect ratio on medium format film that's six centimeters by 12 centimeters and then it has this other cover so you can also shoot six by nine so i'm gonna be shooting six by twelve um it is a f one hundred 135 aperture and a pinhole camera doesn't have a lens it's just a small opening like a pinhole a super small hole so that's why it's f 135 and the light goes through the aperture onto the film um it focuses at infinity yeah let me show you how it works real quick so we have this pinhole here this little button is the shutter and because it's f 135 you have to do long exposures so i'll be using a tripod has a little standard tripod mount here and so you don't get any movement with your long exposure it has a shutter release cable here so you can open it and this little opening exposes the hole to light so light can pass through um i'll get up close so you can actually see the light coming through the pinhole and then you just keep it open for however long you you want your exposure to be and then you close it and that's your exposure so there's no viewfinder it has this little wheel here to wind your film and then you have a little looking uh uh view looking film back view here and this shows you the numbers on the film so after reading the instructions when you wind your film you wind it till you see a one here and then you wind it to every odd number so you pass you start at one and then you go to three five and so on and that will progress your film by winding it to each frame so you open the back here and this pops off so that is the size the picture will be it will fill up this square on medium format film or if you want to shoot um six by nine you can put this one in as well so you put your film i'm going to be using portrait 800 i want to use i also am going to test this out with the black and white film and get some long exposures on black and white um i might just revert we'll see i'll go pick up some black and white film and maybe shoot black and white for this video but i might use portrait or black and white so we'll see once we get to that but you put your film in here you pull it across and then you load it kind of some semi-standard from other medium format film cameras you slide it in here you wind it up a bit and then the film is back here and make sure that it's caught up on that roll and then you put this back on whoops all right so once you get the film across you put this back on there we go and then you wind it until you see a one right here and then you're ready to go you have a little bubble here to level it you just kind of point it at a scene again no viewfinder and then you use a shutter release cable and you put on a tripod you there's even a little exposure guide here it says uh assuming your iso is 100 fine weather which after reading what that meant in the instructions that just means a clear day and then you have overcast and morning or dusk so you have seven to nine seconds for uh sunlight at iso 100 10 to 12 seconds for overcast 13 seconds so once it's on your tripod you open it up lights hitting your film for the proper time to expose your film and you let it go and then you just wind it and then that's one picture so pretty simple very straightforward it's so simple that it was i made one myself in my photography class out of a big cylinder uh cardboard cylinder box and we loaded the film in a dark room taped like film in there exposed it closed it brought it back and developed it and used black and white film so it's pretty cool um it's i got this on amazon for 70 dollars so it's super affordable fun to use and i'm excited to just try it out so yeah that's pretty much it um let me open the back here and then open the um hole so and hold up the camera so you can see the light coming through that is the pinhole that is the aperture 135 f 135 no shutter see this little button here you push that open to expose it and you let it go to release it and so that that's how it works so there right there you can see that tiny aperture that light coming through that light when light goes through an aperture and it will hit the back of the film and create your image so as a landscape film photographer which is what i like to shoot primarily i was very intrigued about getting a ultra wide panoramic aspect ratio of six by nine with a simple affordable camera a pinhole camera so i think it's pretty neat pretty cool yeah that's how it works it's super simple but you can still create some really cool images using even such a simple design so i'm going to go out to some spots and get some pictures some long exposures using either portrait 800 or black and white or maybe i'll shoot both i'll have a gallery at the end of this video with all the images um this camera has a 120 degrees angle of view so 180 degrees is like half a circle 120 is like that so that's the angle of view so it's super wide panoramic on 6 by 12 or 6x9 so i'm excited to shoot 6 by 12 on medium format with this pinhole camera so that's the holga 120 wpc using medium format film panoramic wide-angle long exposures and with a pinhole camera no lens just an aperture and a open and a shutter really a shutter but it's a long exposure so it's pretty pretty cool i'm excited to go use it yeah so that's a little intro to this camera and now that we've covered that let's get out and start shooting all right so i got some nice wide shots out here when i did my light meter it was saying to do 1 15th of a second at f90 this is f135 so i can't control under a second because it's a completely manual there's no like geared uh shutter speed on this thing so i'm just going to kind of wing it and it's a pinhole so we're good we'll just this is all really an experiment for me so let's just do a quick one [Music] won't focus there we go there's that three right there so yeah this is the first time i've used numbers on the back of film so um yeah let's just take a few pictures see what we get and now let's go point it up at the mountain got this cool mountain right here [Music] just did a long one let's do one with this fence going over the valley here [Music] um on slide three i did three exposures on one so we'll see how that looks and now i'm just gonna do single exposures so we have one going here now i'm gonna move it to seven [Music] oh just past seven that's okay let's go this way [Music] all right so i got my negatives back from using the pinhole camera and i actually made a mistake using it so now that i've learned from that mistake i'm gonna i purchased um some t-max black and white negative film that i'm gonna go shoot with and get some longer exposures i'm gonna do seven seconds instead of like the one second i did on black and white of some clouds and landscapes to try and get some cool long exposures on a panoramic format so um the issue i had is when i first loaded the film i started taking pictures and i didn't wind it to slide one and there are numbers on the back of the film that i finally saw so my first few images didn't even make it onto the film so i got three good um panoramas out of the six that i could shoot but i'm gonna go shoot more and with the camera and then i'll put those at the end of this video so you can see those as well so i'm going to go ahead and scan these images and we'll see how they turn out so i'm excited to try out black and white negative film and getting longer exposures because i feel like black and white on a pinhole camera will create a really good look and get some good grain and the black and white will on a long exposure on a pinhole camera just interests me that's the kind of film and format i want to use or shoot using this kind of camera so i'm going to go ahead and shoot some of that so stay tuned i'll have some more shots out in the field using the camera on the black and white t-max and then i'll have a gallery at the end with all the images [Music] okay so i wasn't super happy with the first roll that i got back from this pin hole camera so i got another roll this time i got t-max 100 black and white negative film medium format again of course because it's a medium format film camera so i'm just gonna load it up and now that i've learned from my mistakes or my mis the issue i had last time in my first roll i just need to wind it to get it to frame one until i see that one and then yeah and then should be able to go so i'm gonna use the same six by twelve aspect ratio and then start on frame 1 and then wind it to frame 3 and every negative number or sorry negative every odd number is a new frame so you go from one to three to five until you've got all six shots done and because i'm using iso 100 i'm gonna hold the exposure open for seven seconds seven to eight seconds depending on the light out here yeah so we got it ready to go [Music] so yeah the mistake i made before is i didn't wind it till i saw the one here so this time i'm going to because there's no other number this just has to wind so much hope i'm not just wasting this one here we go i see an arrow kodak one there we go there's the one so you just i made the mistake before because i had to wind it so much but i forget that the first part of your film is just paper and it's a lot to get to actually get through the paper and then get to the film section so we're good to go i'm just going to get my shutter release cable which i have to use and my tripod mount then i'll set up my exposure all right i'm gonna do seven seconds you know what i'm actually gonna do 10 seconds there's a little rating here based off of your assuming your iso is a hundred fine weather which just means a clear day seven to nine seconds overcast 10 to 12 seconds so i'm just going to do 10 seconds and here we go [Applause] seven eight nine ten all right i got it i'm gonna wind it i'm gonna point it up at this mountain and see what you get the aspect ratio is pretty narrow as far as height goes but the width is really wide so that's kind of what we're going for so kind of just aim it has these little aiming dots up here so you can kind of get an idea all right i'm gonna do 11 seconds this [Applause] time [Music] 10 11. all right good i'll wind it to number five [Music] [Applause] i'm gonna go try and find another place to set up a composition and get some black and white pinhole shots with this pin uh polga pinhole panorama camera [Music] so i'm gonna try and get the top of that mountain and at 10 seconds with the clouds moving fast i should get like a nice silky cloud movement and a really cool snow covered mountain top uh with this black and white film [Applause] i just don't want to get these this hole in the way jump over here [Music] 8 9 10 11 12. [Music] all right so i'm gonna see how these images turn out when i get back from the lab but overall pinhole camera is pretty cool if you have a tripod it's light super affordable you can get some really cool really film-esque images because it's a pinhole camera it'll be a little bit fuzzy and have some grain have some effects and it'll look very vintage like really vintage super old like 19 20 old so that is kind of cool when you shoot black and white get long exposures i think it just has that's a good film stock that i chose for this type of camera um because you get grain you get the black and white long exposure silky you know movement um yeah it's cool i'd highly recommend just picking this up if you just want a fun panoramic camera to get some long exposures on it's super affordable easy to use the six by 12 aspect ratio on medium format film is pretty cool so i'll have a link below you can check these out there's some on amazon so thanks for watching give this video a thumbs up if you like it and i'll see you in the next video

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Length: 19min 41sec (1181 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 27 2021