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So, one of the cooler things about the Holga camera is, because it's so incredibly inexpensive
that you can, again, start to play around with it. It's not...you want to push it past
that one-trick pony. And this is a camera - I mean, this is one of my Holgas from a
long time ago - that, you know, I call it Frankenstein. You just start ripping off lenses,
and putting it on different cameras and playing around, seeing what you can do. And the one
cool thing about the Holga is if you look, I'm opening up the shutter right here. This
has no lens on it whatsoever. So one thing that I could do with this camera is actually
put a piece of even coil or aluminum from a soda can, and I can make my own aperture.
I can essentially make a pin hole Holga, and that's something that I do quite a bit, and
again, it simplifies, and it brings it down to a very simple level with this camera. And
again, it makes some really, really dreamy, beautiful images. And, I save all of my Holgas;
I would never throw one out. I mean, it's kind of like for parts, there's people that
always will want this advance button. Or, I'll need an advance button to use for something,
or a hot shoe. So, it almost teaches you a little bit about elementary photography -
taking apart a camera and seeing how a camera works, without spending really any money.