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OK, so for about a week or two now, I have been drooling over photos produced by Holga’s - small Chinese toy cameras that capture really quite interesting images.  They are all plastic, have many light leaks, very few features, and yet the images they make are so fascinating to me.  Read about them here: 

• http://www.holgamods.com/ 
• http://www.apogeephoto.com/july2001/plastic_fantastic.shtml 
• http://shop.lomography.com/holga/ 
• http://squarefrog.co.uk/holga/
• http://www.toycamera.com/articles.html 

But then I began to read about 120 film, processing, developing, the chemicals, the costs of having a lab do it, and so on, and I got scared.  Also, there is a substantial cult following regarding the Holga, LOMO LC-A, Seagull, and other toy/cheap cameras, and (if you know me at all) I’m not one to jump on any bandwagon.   Then I got to thinking about what it is that I like about the Holga images.  Soft and surreal focus, vignetting, B&W of course…  Then it hit me - PINHOLE camera.  So I started to read about that: 

• http://photo.net/learn/pinhole/pinhole
• http://www.pinholephotography.org/
• http://www.pinhole.com/
• http://www.pinhole.org/
• http://www.lenoxlaser.com/pinholephotos/index.html 

Of course, I was convinced the whole film apparatus would be associated with that, until I realized that I could do DIGITAL PINHOLE!  Look at this: 

• http://www.lenoxlaser.com/shop_cart/index.html?target=dept_95.html&lang=en-us 

It’s just a body cap that you modify with a pinhole.  This Lenox Laser place makes them for the Olympus E series by special order, but they are $43.00.  I’m not paying $43.00 for a body cap with a hole in it.  And then I did some more research.  I can get a body cap for my Olympus Evolt E-500 off Ebay for (cross your fingers) about $6.  I can get brass shims somewhere (maybe Home Depot?) for next to nothing, and I just ordered some micro drill bits of the appropriate size from some place here in Florida for about $10.  I’m handy - I don’t need no stinking pre-made pinhole. 

I’m crossing my fingers.  Stay tuned for some damn good photographs…

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