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Yesterday I decided to try an experiment in my Holga camera. Here are the ingredients:

The two spools with the red paper is a used roll of 120 film, which is the size of film this camera takes. The camera’s in the photo too, with its back removed. 120 film doesn’t come in a light-tight canister, instead it comes on a spool with backing paper that protects it from light. So I took the used backing paper and taped two rolls of 35mm film onto it:

Then I stuck it in a changing bag, which is the black thing on the far right of the first pic. It’s light tight. There’s holes to stick your hands in and manipulate stuff without light getting in. I unwound the film from their cannisters and rolled it up onto the 120 spool. In the photo above, the edges of the film are sticking out of the paper, and I realized it wouldn’t fit on the spool like that, so I had to move it so it overlapped—all blind, while it was in the changing bag. A total pain.

Then I went on a bike ride with Nathaniel and shot the roll. I had to scan each negative and stitch them together in Photoshop.

Here’s Nathaniel on his bike:

I had trouble near the end of the roll with light leaks.

Nathaniel took this one of me on a freeway overpass:

It wasn’t until we got about a half mile away that I realized it was 91 degrees out. And I wasn’t feeling well to begin with! But nothing deters me when I have a camera in hand.

I need to do a post about last Saturday when we went bike riding in Long Beach and then went to Watts. Soon!