This is a page that is going to grow. It all started with me buying a book on experimental photography in order to challenge myself. This book contains a series of 52 challenges looking at different types of photography, one of which is a “Holgarama”. To take a Holgarama, you first need a Holga, which is what you see in the photo on the right, This is photography at its most basic: plastic camera and plastic (!) lens. There are some vague scales for focusing the lens and a switch with a sun and some clouds that equates to f16 and f8… but that’s it. It uses 120 film, which is worth a blog entry all of its own, and has a viewfinder which, suprisingly enough, is not “through the lens”. Holga’s are known for their light leaks, which some people embrace and others, like me, try to minimse with the electrician’s tape that you can see on mine. In terms of shooting, absolutely everything is manual. You press the shutter (remember to take the lens cap off before you do, otherwise you’ll just get a black photo) and you wind on manually (there is no stop, so watch the film advance window carefully. If you don’t respect this process you will get some interesting or baffling multiple exposures. Anyway, back to the Holgarama. Because the Holga is actually a medium format camera, it comes with a mask so that you can shoot either in 6x6 (getting you 12 shots per roll of film) or 6x4.5 (which gets you 16 images). But if you set the film window to 16 but leave the mask out, you are shooting overlapping images. In fact, you can shoot the 16 images as one massive 1 metre panorama. All you need to do then is find a lab that can process 120 film and dig deep into your pockets. The Holga 120N is dirt cheap, but processing the film isn’t.