When I got my Holga 135BC in December 2009, I'd only really used a random, very basic 35mm camera before so when I tried to use it to photograph the German Christmas Market in town that year, it wasn't that successful (seeing as on a Holga 135BC you hold the shutter open for as long as you press the shutter release button down for). As a result I got quite blurry photos with too long a shutter speed. I was also only aware of being able to get ISO 200 film so that wasn't great in the dark either. And I hadn't had much practice loading film. Here are some of them, from Christmas 2009...
I was quite disappointed with them at the time but actually really like them a lot now, these two especially. Anyway, this Christmas just gone, I used my beloved Olympus Trip 35 and trusty ISO 400 film (from Poundland - get in) which I reckon 'delivered much better results' (I said it like that because that's what all photographer people seem to say). The focus is a little off in some of them, but that's something that many a Trip 35 user seem to struggle with, especially in the dark.
Thinking about it now, it's cool to compare my knowledge then, and my knowledge now. It's cool what you can learn in under a year about something if you're really interested in it (especially if, like me, you're busy with a job or school/college/uni work and you have to fit it in around that).
