Next Train

The next day, I went to Manggarai train station again. I tried to take the picture of the train with the help of extreme sun-light on that day. And the result was very satisfying for increasing the light since I only used film with ISO 160.

Holga is a cheap, medium format 120 film toy camera, made in China, appreciated for its low-fidelity aesthetic. The Holga's cheap construction and simple meniscus lens often yields pictures that display vignetting, blur, light leaks, and other distortions. The camera's quality problems have become a virtue among some photographers, with Holga photos winning awards and competitions in art and news photography.

Lens, most Holga cameras use a single-piece plastic meniscus lens with a focal length of 60 millimeters and can focus from about 1 meter/yard to infinity. There is an aperture switch on the camera with two settings: sunny and cloudy. Due to a manufacturing oversight in early production cameras, this switch had no effect, giving the Holga only one true aperture of around f/13 — although these cameras are easily modified to provide two usable apertures, both this restriction and the 6×4.5 film mask as well, finding the resultant vignetting a desirable effect. Later Holgas were shipped without this film size restriction but still with the single aperture (Holgas can even be modified to use 35mm and Polaroid film.)

All this picture taken with Holga 120 CFN and Kodak 120 ISO 160 film.