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Holga?
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“And the sappy poetry which
gushes forth from the pens of
these Holga hippies”I think he might be one himself,
if the truth be known…There are lots of ways to rebel against the metallic crispness of the digital experience-
davedunne knows most of them, and some are better than others-
if he tells you to get a Diana, just don’t listen to him-I’m setting up to downgrade my own pictures using projector lenses-
and others are doing it by using antiques,
though the prices of those are skyrocketing at the moment-The Holga is nice because its circle of illumination is a bit bigger than it’s image circle-
there’s a nice falloff in sharpness around the edges-I think the effect is best on the 120- (for the Holga)
where film resolution exceeds the lens resolution-You do have some controls on the Holga-
sunny or cloudy, and near and far, IIRC-j
Was more like…”..I look bad enough on a decent camera…please don’t make me look any worse….”….hehehe!!
Actually I thought the little plastic toy was quite cool…
almost bought one…but I’ve bought enough film cameras that just lie gathering dust..so I refrained… :wink:
That sappy poetry bit got me too… lol
Projector lenses! I’m intrigued…They only gather dust if you let them Robbie :wink:
S.
Sinead~~he looks at me that way most of the time :wink:
Joseph mentioned most of capabilities already :lol: ..just wanted to add that mine has a fancy color wheel filter too! Mine is plastic lens.
I’ll let you have a lend of mine if you want ok?Joseph~~that’s a great article…had a subscription that Nikon Man and I shared. It must have run out just before that issue. Off to renew now that you posted that..it’s a great mag.
Jess the Springer wrote:
Can aperture and shutter speed be changed on them.
Shutter speed is fixed. For aperture I don’t know about the 135 versions but on the 120 versions there is a sunny/cloudy switch which doesn’t work so the aperture is fixed around f/13. You can modify (or buy pre-modified) Holgas to give it a working switch. One of mine is modified to have apertures of f/8 & f/11.
That JPG article makes me cringe unfortunately. The author is one of those people who thinks that Holgas are not created by Universal Electronics in Hong Kong but instead believes they are made by (or for) LOMO (Leningradskoye Optiko Mechanichesckoye Obyedinenie) in Russia and then goes on to confuse LOMO with the camera retailer Lomographic Society International (LSI) in Austria. It’s a common misconception, one LSI are happy to allow propagate (but that’s another thread!)
Lightleaks magazine volume 2 has a good interview with the creator of the Holga if anyone is interested.
Jess the Springer wrote:
Any suggestions where to shop?
I live in the US so can’t tell you about anywhere local. If you wanted to buy online I recommend http://holgamods.com/ and http://www.freestylephoto.biz/ but any savings due to the weak dollar may be negated by shipping costs.
Sharon, thanks very much for the offer but I’d be happier to have my own
I’m always afraid to use borrowed things!Cheers for those links and information Dave. There is loads of choice, I don’t
know which one to get.. What’s a Diana? It’s been mentioned already on this thread
but I don’t know the difference.Sinead.
Jess the Springer wrote:
What’s a Diana? It’s been mentioned already on this thread
but I don’t know the difference.A Diana is a camera originally from the 1960s that was made in China. There are also many “clones” with different names like Banner, Windsor, Harrow and a host of others. Many were given away free with magazines (so there is a Readers Digest version for example) and also you could get them for near nothing in petrol stations. A lot of times they were given to kids. (That may be where the term “toy camera” came from – I heard loads of these cameras were played with by kids but never had film loaded.)
Like the Holga, it is a plastic camera that takes 120 film (well most do – some take 620 film). Most take 16 4×4 shots (unlike the Holga which takes either 12 6×6 or 16 6×4.5 shots).
Last year Lomographic Society International released an updated version called the Diana+ which is fairly close to the original but adds a few features (e.g there is a pinhole available by twisting off the lens barrell). Of course there is huge debate over whether the Diana+ is a good replica of the original 60s camera.
I see you have a Flickr account so check out the following groups for examples
Diana http://flickr.com/groups/dianaphotos/
Diana + http://flickr.com/groups/diana_plus/
Toy cameras (in general) http://flickr.com/groups/toycameras/
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