BebuLamar

But the OP camera is even worse than stuff selling by Lomography. It's not the Hoga or Diana. It's a 35mm camera. I said it's zone focus but now I take it back it's fixed focus.

willaim Loc: Sunny Southern California

Might be a good paper weight.

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

No, it's real alright. I have a nearly identical one (I bought a nice camera bag at a flea market last year, and the camera happened to be in it). Certainly not in any way a good camera, but not much worse than say, a Diana or Holga. Except that it takes 35mm film rather than 120.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

Exactly. It’s one of those “free gift” cameras. I think those cardboard disposables had a better lens.

Bipod

It probably has less light leaks than a Holga. Other than that, I can't see spending
much time on it. The OP should head for the nearest thrift store and look for an
old Minolta 35 mm that works. Even A-mount film Maxxums show up sometimes.

Good cameras have been made out of steel, aluminum, wood and yes, even plastic.

Ilford's Harman Titan is a large format pinhole camera with a plastic body.
It accepts film holders and takes great pinhole images. The 8" x 10" version has
been discontinued, but the 5" x 4" is available. Review:
https://www.ephotozine.com/article/harman-titan-pinhole-5x4-camera-kit-review-18049

Plastic deserves it's terrible reputation---but not all plastics are equally bad.
THe very first plastic made from synthetic componets -- Bakelite --- is a remarkably
stable, heat-resistant and durable material--but brittle.

It was used by Kodak for the bodies of a number of box cameras, including the very
popular Brownie Hawkeye (made from 1949 until 1961). This P&S (fixed everything)
camera took 620 film (no longer made), but most can easily be modified for 120.
Format is 2.25" (6 cm) square. http://www.brownie-camera.com/27.shtml

My Hawkeye flash model -- which I bought in a thrift store -- is at least 60 years old
and works. All I did was clean the lens and viewfinder, and modify it for 120 film.
The biggest drawback is the 1-element (positive meniscus) lens....made of plastic.
It's not sharp at all, but capable of a decent snapshot of the right subject. I shot one roll
and now the camera is a cool-looking tchotchke. But some people still use them.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

That might be one of the last surviving copies of the ultra rare "Plastiflex" 35mm film cameras! One that came up for auction a couple years ago sold for over $50,000...

Oh, wait... it's April 1, isn't it?

hassighedgehog Loc: Corona, CA

Looks to me like one of those novelty things that do something else. Or that show one or a few images if you look in the viewfinder. A toy.

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

No, it's a real camera.

unduki

Looks like one I got from a comic book ad. Remember 126 film?

flathead27ford Loc: Colorado, North of Greeley

Not worth anything but it is a real camera. Used as give aways and bought by bulk.

photoman022 Loc: Manchester CT USA

It looks surprisingly like my old Regula Picca C 35mm camera. I bought in Germany (at the PX) around 1973; it's made of plastic (including the lens). I bought it as a pocket camera when going on Volksmarches and into the field. It took very good photos; they were extremely sharp (in spite of the plastic lens!). By selecting the weather condition you would automatically enter in the f/stop AND shutter speed. If you wanted to do it manually, you could still only enter in the f/stop AND shutter speed. You could not set them independently of each other (kind of like shooting in Auto mode!). I used the camera a lot, especially when it was impossible to lug around my SLR and companion lenses. Like I said, it was an extremely good camera.

Just checked Ebay and my Regula Picca was being sold for "$49.99 or best offer". That's more than I originally paid for it in the PX.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Do not listen to these know it alls. The camera is in the tune of the old plastic camera know as a Holga. The original Holga, if you can find one for sale will start at $200 to $500. Though when original sold they went for $2.00 to $6.00.

These cameras used ISO 200 to 400 speed color print film. The shutter follows the old Kodak standard shutter speed of 1/50 second. the settings on the 'f' stop are shown based on the sunny 16 rule of f 16. So the sun showing is f=16, and the other symbols reflect the old symbols found in the exposure guides found printed on the paper instruction sheets packaged with the film.

By the way, the original Holga camera as it was called was given away as promotional items with the company name affixed to the top. In the case of the Holga it might be marked 'Shakeys' for Shakey's pizza. Marked like that the collectors will pay twice to five times the going rate of the standard price.

Like all collectables, don't clean or alter the thing. Also value goes up if you have the original box and instruction sheet for collectors.

chrisg-optical Loc: New York, NY

I think my old Mickey Mouse camera is worth more....but an interesting conversation piece...looks like a kiddie toy camera.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Probably true. I was rummaging through an old thrift store's pile of junk and I came across one of the old Holga cameras in it's original boxes with a roll of unused 120 color film, and instructions. It was valued ay $10 and I bough it. On my way home I stopped by an old girlfriends place, surprise she was home!

I rang the door bell and she opened the door, surprised to see me!

I told her I was sorry I missed her birthday(s) these past few years but I found her just the right birthday gift. I handed her the box unwrapped. Boy did I get a huge hug for my late birthday gift! She collects cameras and uses two Holga cameras all the time.

The link to her reclining portrait over on the Hog nude posts:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-585832-1.html#10029160

Bipod

Well you know, some people will pay $200 for an autograph by Eric Estrada.
Has Hannah Montana merchandise become collectable yet? (No knock on Miley--she does
what she has to do.)

I have 120 film Holga from about 2010. It leaks light like a sieve. Like most Holga owners,
I put black electrical tape over the seams and that makes the piece of junk usable.

The original Holga was designed in China in 1982 as a cheap low-quality camera for the proletariat.
The first imports to North America apparently begin in the 1990s. Production ceased in 2015.

The highest price listed on this survey of sale prices site for any model 1990s model is $80-$90--
for a Holga 120 WPC: 6 x 9 cm or 6 x 12 cm wide format:
http://collectiblend.com/Cameras/Holga/

I have a 2000s Holga 120 film camera and it leaks light like a sieve. Like most Holga owners,
I put black electrical tape over the seams, and now the piece of junk is usable.

There are many, many inexpensive 120 film cameras from the 1950s that are much better than a
Holga. I have a German-made Franka Solida II and a Zeiss Ikon Nettar -- both consumer-grade
cameras and very limited -- but way better than the Holga.

Lomography is a religion: bad is good! On the whole, though, it has had a beneficial
influence on photography beause it has remnded photographers that the final image is what
matters, not technology. But don't buy a Holga.