35mm Holga?
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- 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..
- seed0
You can turn a Holga into a 35mm with a little mod too.
- 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?
- Randd0
can't they just make a Holga ps plugin for your canon?
- nicnichols0
Just came in the mail.. now I have to track down some 35 film.. demafleez.. you get any good images with it?
- loaf0
ha.. that is funny..
- 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.
- sikma0
funny thing is people pay for actions like that....
- menos0
funny thing is people pay for any action...
- nicnichols0
I guess it comes down to if you want to capture an image, or make one up later in Photoshop.. I work in PS all day.. and at the end of the day, that last thing I want to do is have to tweak an image all night so that it looks good.. so, ya, you can download a cheesy action, there are plenty out there.. or you can just go make good images. If you have a good digital image, why would you want to make it look like an old camera?
- loaf0
so the only way to create vintage beat up look is to only use vintage beat up tools? i guess i better start polishing my glass plate negs.. :) seems like a slippery slope.. so if i hooked up my scanning back to my holga.. that would not be Kosher? that is what i do not get.. why does the capture medium matter? if i use Ilford xp1 is it true black and white since their is no silver in it and it is dye based?
- nicnichols0
Interesting point Loaf.. I guess I don't really have an answer.. I comes down to personal choice.. as long as we're all making good images, it doesn't really matter how we got there- just that we got there.. I just prefer a holga, mamiya 6mf and the like.. I also have a Phase One on a Hassy, but that's a bitch to take out for a hike! Its like the Nikon v. Canon thread.. it just comes down to how you want to do it......
- loaf0
I would agree nic.. I just wish there was a easy way to digitally use all the cameras that i have.. some sort universal back for all of them.. i miss using some of my cameras.. i actually know a photographer that is going so far as to creating .. basically camera obscura's.. he digitally photographs the image on the ground glass.. something similar i guess to do some of the depth of field devices that digi movie guys use..
- 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/…