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Old 23rd April 2012, 12:32 PM
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Do you wear Alf t-shirts from the 1980s but only because it's like, such a lame concept? Do you sneer at anyone whose pants aren't at least fifteen centimetres too short for their legs? Do you think that the crackling, hissing, popping mess that are vinyl records are superior to a digital recording of a studio master? Do you think that doing anything properly, and with an actual desire for it to be GOOD is so 90s man?

Then this could be the camera for you!

The Holga camera almost guarantees that you're going to have some ugly horrendous piece of crap when you develop the Medium Format film you paid too much to have done.*

But hey, the pictures might impress* other people so pretentious they should barely show their faces publicly.

It's a Holga! You don't even need to take pictures with it.Just wear it around your neck as a fashion accessory to the next party where the "band" is playing recorders and casiotone keyboards and you might just get babes dressed like Cyndi Lauper crawling all over you!*

What a waste of time and money these things are.

*Results may vary.

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Old 23rd April 2012, 01:29 PM
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Genius.
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Old 23rd April 2012, 04:35 PM
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Whose Alf and Cyndi Lauper? No don't laugh. I have only just found out who Tommy Hilfiger is. A few years ago I thought he was every second youth walking around the sea front on Paphos

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Cyndi Lauper? Do you think my lubitel would have the same effect!
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Cyndi Lauper? Do you think my lubitel would have the same effect!
If she likes that sort of thing
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Old 23rd April 2012, 10:35 PM
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I still don't "get" the toy camera thing.
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my photos are cr#p. now all I have to do is wait for the Que to appear at my front door, people with money and no sense need only apply.
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I was in The Real Camera Company in Manchester last week talking to the owner Jem Kime and he was very firmly of the opinion that the Holga craze had got many young people into film photography and they were now buying "proper" cameras so perhaps it's not something to sneer at.


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I was in The Real Camera Company in Manchester last week talking to the owner Jem Kime and he was very firmly of the opinion that the Holga craze had got many young people into film photography and they were now buying "proper" cameras so perhaps it's not something to sneer at.


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Old 25th April 2012, 11:37 AM
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I'll be honest and say that a couple that I bought several long years ago (about a tenner each at time).

I quite like them because they force me away from thinking about aperture/shutter/film speed combos - which can disproportionately dominate my taking of a photograph - and let me think of the image- which is for me the hardest part of photography.

Granted the results are not of the quality of a 'proper' camera- but they can be surprisingly good. Neither of mine light leak and the worst I get is vignetting and a drop in resolution towards edges, and a bit of parallax (etc).

I find great inspiration for the use of the Holgas from Wolfgang Moersch's website which has some stunning images based on holga negatives (http://www.moersch-photochemie.de/content/galerie/toy) as well as on his flickr site (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfgang_moersch/page4/). There's loads more through both sites.

I've stuck various filters on front and have quie successfully managed to take IR pictures as well.

Unfortunately, none as good as Moersch's examples.

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