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I've only ever put Neopan 400 thru the Holga and the results have always been pretty cool.

I have a roll of Velvia that is so old it could be described as vintage, and can't see any ISO/ASA speed so am assuming it's 100? Do I need to do anything different with the Holga when shooting as that's 2 stops less 'reactive' than the Neopan so won't everything come out pretty poorly underexposed? I am thinking turn the lens to 'cloudy'.

Would I be best trying lots of double exposure stuff? I don't mind experimenting, but don't want to get it processed only to find the whole roll is so grossly underexposed it's unviewable.
 
Well - both times I shot Velvia (plain 100 iso 3 years OOD and probably stored in a car's glove compartment :gag: ) I did just what you said - put settings on cloudy and hope, pretty much. Results were "somewhat variable" should we say - suffice to say I didn't bother showing any of them on here, and I'm not about to now. Personally, I'd not bother shooting E6 on something like a holga unless I was processing the film myself, either in E6 or C41, but with chemicals that had already paid for themselves in normal processing, so that the cost of processing was effectively zero.

Double Exposures might be an option - at least you'd be getting plenty of light onto the film. Just go for it, and hope for happy accidents - I'm too picky and obsessive about my shooting to truly embrace the Holga/Lomo ethos, tbh...
 
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According to the manual that came with my Holga 120N, it says 100 film for day and 400 for cloudy. It has two apertures, f8 and f11 with a fixed shutter speed of 1/100 or bulb.

Now based on the Sunny 16 rule, 100 ASA is a little too slow for spring/summer but fine for fall/winter sun at your geographical latitude. But with the exposure latitude of many negative films, that shouldn't be too much of a problem but I could potentially see an issue with the more exposure sensitive positive films. With the fixed conditions of a Holga, I'd say you want to load a film with the widest exposure latitude possible.
 
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If it just says Velvia then its the original Velvia released in 1992 that was rated at 50 but was discontinued in 2005 as it used an obsolete film base which was different to all of Fuji's other films. Due to a backlash from users unhappy over the 100f replacement Fuji redesigned the original Velvia to use the newer film base and released it as 'Velvia 50'. If its that old its likely to have lost some film speed anyway.

If you want to be sure you could always pay for a clip test if the lab does them where in a darkroom they clip off and process the 1st 3 frames and analyse them to see if any adjustment in development time etc is needed for the rest of the frames. Peak Imaging where I get my E6 done charge £1.94 for doing a clip test.
 
Cheers for the comments guys. Looks like it is ASA 50 then! I think I'll just pop it in and give it a bash... i'll try some normal and some double/triple exposures. The film is dated 2005. Might be tempted to get the clip test done... I use Peak too. :)
 
I wouldn't bother unless it's a REALLY sunny day. The only time I've had success with Velvia in a holga is a bright day, mid summer, in Spain.
 
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