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For Sale FS: Holga 120N - Price Reduction to $20

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Nicholas Lindan

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Holga 120N with the following fabulous features:
  • Optical lens
  • It focuses*
  • Bulb and instant shutter settings
  • Cloudy/Sunny aperture settings
  • Tripod bushing
  • 52mm filter adapter (because who has 46mm filters...)
Missing the 4x4cm insert, scuffing on the lens lettering.

Maybe two rolls through it?

$25 - Reduced to $20 - post paid in the US; Plus actual shipping for overseas

* "Focus is so over-rated" https://www.junkstorecameras.com/

 
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The entire square mask pyramid comes out and is replaced with another one.
 
I think he's talking about the filter adapter. And the 46mm end is a push-on, or it might be threaded on both ends and just glued to the lens surround.
 
The front of the Holga's lens is just the right size for a 46mm thread. You very carefully thread the adapter into the rather soft plastic of the lens barrel and it creates threads in the plastic, think of it as a thread-rolling self-tapping screw. You can unscrew the adapter if you prefer the au naturel aesthetic.

I have epoxied adapters into the mouth of push-on lens hoods, series V thread to 52mm adapters being thin on the ground. The maws of the hoods are conveniently ~50mm across and a 49->XXmm (the XX of your choice) adapter drops in with a bit of epoxy putty to hold it in place. If you use 49mm filters then gluing in a glass-less filter would work - and you thought scratched filters were not good for anything.
 
Thanks, managed to find a 46mm orange filter that will do nicely.
Good luck with the sale, great camera.
 
Heh. If I didn't already have two Holgas, I'd have jumped on this...
 
 
BE VERY CAREFUL USING ANY SUPER GLUE ON PLASTIC LENS DESIGNS....

I have an original Diana and after a misadventure, had to glue the lens assembly for use the next day.

The glue badly fogged the lens and it needed a polish to restore.

These glues give out-gasing that will fog the optic its placed on, in, the camera, so if you super glue the filters into adapters, wait a week or two for the glue to outgas completely in a well ventilated space away from other optics.

Don't let circulation be closed off, especially with camera bodies

Good luck.
 
Also worth noting that the fogging by super glue will bring out any unclean surface -- this is a method used for many years to bring up fingerprints in environments where the old methods (dusting with lycopodium, for instance) won't work at all...
 
E Murphy used an aquarium in "Beverly Hills Cop" to do just that.
 
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