For B&W:
Holgas have little to no exposure control. The
negatives rarely come out well exposed, but rather
under exposed when shooting inside and over exposed
when shooting out. Add this to the unsharp nature of
the platic lens, the fogging, which can be controlled
by a liberal use of black tape, and you end up with a
look that, that though technically derelict, is
wonderfully charming and impossible with a NIKON. The
pictures seem to have more in common with dreams and
memories than with any form of documentary
photography.
By using a Holga, a Diana, or any other toy camera,
you are giving up a measure of control, much as the
pictorialists of the early twentieth century did.
people such as Edward Steichen and Gertrude Kasebier,
who would do whatever possible to make their images
not like photographyand employed such techniques as
puting butter or oil on their lenses or kick their
tripods during exposures.
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