35mm Holga?
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- nicnichols
Anyone get their hands on one yet? How is it? the Lomo Shop is sold out!
- TheBlueOne0
damn hipsters and their crappy Lomos...
- Holga isn't a Lomo.rabattski
- Damn hipsters and their crappy Holgas...TheBlueOne
- Haha!rabattski
- loaf0
just go to thrift store and buy a plastic crappy give-away camera.. same thing.. same look you are going for... i bought a Time-life plastic 35mm this weekend.. the quality of the imagery is very cool.. I actually ripped apart the lens and built a mount for my D200. i always thought holga's optics quality was too good.. i like the Diana cameras.. i wonder what the quality is of the new ones..
- nicnichols0
So Blue I am guessing you won't be making the plunge for x-mas?
I don't shoot 35mm... but was thinking of grabbing one of these just for the hell of it.. and rigging my Holga ring flash to it.. we'll see...
.. as for the new Diana's, they are slightly better- the lens is cleaner and crisper.. def grab and old one if you can.. how did that lens for the D200 work out loaf?
- skwiotsmith0
Holga 35mm Camera
http://shop.lomography.com/shop/…Holga 120 35mm Adaptor
http://shop.lomography.com/shop/…- Also, should point out that there is a free alternative that you can find floating around the internet, but, well, you get what you pay for.skwiotsmith
- loaf0
the holga lens for the d200 worked out OK.. the problems is that it is lens for a medium format camera.. the coverage is different.. you don't get that nice fall off like you do using a real holga or a Diana.. that is why i am trying to build some with crappy 35mm cameras.. i started one this weekend.. it shows promise.. very similar to the feel of the Lensbabies.. i basically used this guys template for building one.. i like the screw factor for being able to focus somewhat.. http://www.pbase.com/orbitalbox/…
- nicnichols0
Just came in the mail.. now I have to track down some 35 film.. demafleez.. you get any good images with it?
- menos0
alright, I'm kinda stumped here... if you buy a holga (or any of the lomo cameras, for that matter) you SHOULD be expecting that trademark lomography 'look': light leaks, vignetting, over-saturated colors etc etc etc... I don't understand why you'd put a holga lens on a d200, for example, or why anyone would be expecting anything less of what is clearly the single most defining attribute of the whole lomography trend...it's unpredictable image quality.
- nicnichols0
Like I always say.. if you need to add cheap effects to your image, you didn't start with a good image...
Shoot a Holga. Shoot Film.
- loaf0
why would i put a holga lens on a digi? film is dead.. light leaks.. that is what gaffers tape is for.. I do agree that the randomness is somewhat gone.. but from a working photographer standpoint.. that is not really a bad thing.. planned happy accidents are a good thing. i was trained a photographer with film.. i don't want to go back into the dark room.. i spent plenty of years doing it.. .. or spend 2.50 a polaroid for my large format cameras.. it is about the image making.. what is the big deal? what makes holga's and diana's appealing is the optics.. so why not try and adopt the optics..
i don't quite understand why people spend the money on the these over priced toy cameras? the thrift store is full of old and interesting cameras.. I guess it is all about being cool and having the right artsy fartsy name on your camera.. like the jack white lomo..
- sikma0
bottom line is that it 100% doesn't matter how you get the end results.
period.
if you want a low-fi look use a low-fi camera - or - shoot a high quality image and dumb it down.
chose the work flow that best suits your needs and carry on.
- seed0
You can turn a Holga into a 35mm with a little mod too.
- Randd0
can't they just make a Holga ps plugin for your canon?
- loaf0
ha.. that is funny..
- sikma0
funny thing is people pay for actions like that....