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

[Nicholas Lindan]

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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[George Mann]

Does optical lens mean glass?

 

[Donald Qualls]

Does optical lens mean glass?

Not in a Holga.

The glass lens version has "G" in the model number, like 120G or 120GCF.

 

[George Mann]

Thanks Donald.

 

[awty]

So a 46 x 52 lens adapter just screws on?

 

[Bill Burk]

The entire square mask pyramid comes out and is replaced with another one.

 

[Donald Qualls]

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.

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

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.

 

[awty]

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.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Heh. If I didn't already have two Holgas, I'd have jumped on this...

 

[eli griggs]

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.

 

[eli griggs]

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.

 

[Donald Qualls]

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...

 

[eli griggs]

E Murphy used an aquarium in "Beverly Hills Cop" to do just that.

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

Bump and price reduction to $20.