Holga camera, the most successful bad film camera ever?
Nov 17, 2017 10:31:14 #
Darkroom317 wrote:
And cheap lenses!
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Nov 17, 2017 11:05:25 #
BTW, as your title suggest, the Hoga is not even CLOSE to the worst film camera ever made.
That title would certainly have to go to the Instamatic!!
The Holga is a MF for crying out loud!!!! LoL
SS
That title would certainly have to go to the Instamatic!!
The Holga is a MF for crying out loud!!!! LoL
SS
Nov 17, 2017 11:54:02 #
SharpShooter wrote:
BTW, as your title suggest, the Hoga is not even CLOSE to the worst film camera ever made.
That title would certainly have to go to the Instamatic!!
The Holga is a MF for crying out loud!!!! LoL
SS
That title would certainly have to go to the Instamatic!!
The Holga is a MF for crying out loud!!!! LoL
SS
I never said it is the worst film camera ever made. This is the title "Holga camera, the most successful bad film camera ever?"
I am just saying it is bad, not worst. And the most successful of the bad film cameras
Holga (the pics it makes) has a charm that makes it very special. It is so bad that it is good in a way! That is why it is still a life and successful camera.
Nov 17, 2017 12:07:03 #
You might enjoy an old article of mine (pen name used) that is still on the Shutterbug Magazine website: https://www.shutterbug.com/content/whats-woca-dobrcan-happiness-be-found-latest-diana-wannabee
Nov 17, 2017 16:46:47 #
I have a Holga, a Woca, a Diana, and a couple of Russian Lomo cameras, as well as a Holga lens for my Canon dslr. I walked into Denver's premier photo lab one day and they had put up several 24x36 canvas prints of a wedding from a Woca and I fell in love with the idea. The effects achieved with lomography cameras created by light leaks, and poor construction, etc., are random and is lost with the Holga dslr lens which fails to be random and therefore not nearly as surprising or effective as the results from lomo cameras. I really enjoy tinkering with lomography but don't do it enough. It hits me in spells. There's an interesting bit of lomography at https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVixxVg9aN7MAxc8PxQt.?p=lomography&fr=yhs-pty-pty_packages&fr2=piv-web&hspart=pty&hsimp=yhs-pty_packages&type=pa_appfocus29_cr and I see from a link on that lomo page that B&H has a nice selection of lomo cameras and even film.
Nov 17, 2017 18:41:10 #
JPL wrote:
I never said it is the worst film camera ever made. This is the title "Holga camera, the most successful bad film camera ever?"
I am just saying it is bad, not worst. And the most successful of the bad film cameras
Holga (the pics it makes) has a charm that makes it very special. It is so bad that it is good in a way! That is why it is still a life and successful camera.
I am just saying it is bad, not worst. And the most successful of the bad film cameras
Holga (the pics it makes) has a charm that makes it very special. It is so bad that it is good in a way! That is why it is still a life and successful camera.
The Instamatic were also quite successful but I do agree with you that the Holga is the most successful with the help of Lomography. It became the cult camera.
Nov 17, 2017 19:14:21 #
JPL wrote:
I was reading article about the Holga camera and h... (show quote)
The Holga is the latecomer descendant of the original Diana F, last made around 1970. Nothing wrong with the Holga except it's too good for me. If you are a fan of the Diana style,as I am, you know that its soft focus, irregular image borders, vignetting, and light leaks are the whole point. it's so unabashedly bad, it's good. >Alan
Nov 17, 2017 22:41:05 #
I had a Diana in 1964. What is lost on the other models is that the Diana used non-optical clear plastic, the same used for the windshields of model cars. It seems no 2 lenses were exactly the same due to uneven cooling of the plastic. The contrasty but wavy look is realy found in the Diana styrene lenes, as far as I can tell.
Nov 18, 2017 00:15:34 #
Yes, I have used one, Diana. At Ohio University all photo students were required to use the Diana for their 1st semester of classes (1970s) . That way we were all on the same level. That way we all learned the "real" basics of photography. At Grad School, all us Photo Majors were required to use a "throw-a-way" camera for the 1st semester too. Also for the same reasons. Although many of the elements of film photography are the same as digital photography, Digital is very automated. The magic of the darkroom have been replaced by the wonders of the computer. as Someone once said....The more things change, the more they stay the same. As for the most successful bad camera.... Hola, Diana, etc, have outlived the Instamatic by decades.
Nov 18, 2017 09:42:19 #
It is odd that the humble box camera, using 120 roll film and often large negative size hasn't been "discovered" by the LOMO set. The "toy" magazine giveaway cameras never have quite been exploited either. Sometimes a single element lens is just mediocre.
Nov 26, 2017 17:12:25 #
I have the Holgs 135 as well as the 120. long story about why I have both, but I like the 35mm, easier to scan and process.
Getting the film developed is not as easy as a few years ago, but still doable.
Getting the film developed is not as easy as a few years ago, but still doable.
Apr 12, 2018 20:28:25 #
Hi, everyone. I own both the 120 holga (bought used), as well as the 135(bought new), and I love them both. The 135 mostly is always with me. My neighborhood CVS always has the Fuji film that I use as well as aphoto processing. I learned to use these cameras way back in the late 1970's. My Sony and Canon cameras are beautiful digital cameras, but I'm learning them,as I continue to use film.
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