I was pretty underwhelmed by my shots overall, but there's a couple passable ones there. I also need to get used to the grain of film and get a feel for what different films might bring to the equation. There's so many factors that can affect the final image, like the freshness or age of the film, the framing choices I made, the developing, and the scans of the negatives. I know this will just take more time and experimentation and familiarity. Being limited to 24 (or 36 as the case may be) shots definitely makes you stop and think before you click the shutter, though!
You can take a peek at my 35mm images in a set I created at my Flickr page.
I also got a roll of medium format (120) film developed from my Holga. So many of the images just didn't come out at all. I don't know how I went so wrong. Half of the negatives were so underexposed it's not even funny. It was ISO 400 film. Also expired. The couple frames that came out definitely have an old timey feel to them, especially being black & white. The softness around the edges of my Holga's lens is so pronounced. Only the exact center has any semblance of sharpness.
I also didn't realize that the mask I have installed in there is not actually the square mask I thought it was. It turns out that the specific model Holga I have - the Woca 120GF - only came with the portrait/rectangular mask. This should have been obvious when I opened the camera back. As a result, instead of being able to fit 16 images on the roll, I had incorrectly set the counter window for only 12. Oh, well. I was not very enthusiastic about the Holga after this first go around and seeing the results. I have one more roll of 120 to try, but I have some other "toy camera" ideas I may explore.
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