Holga cameras making a comeback.

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I love my holga, not seen one for sale in a long time though...

Previous owner added what looks like a pin to hold the shutter open in bulb mode. Looks pretty agro now. I'd like to try out a Hawkeye too sometime as they seem pretty fun!
 

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I just got one a week or so ago, and am playing around with it now, doing some stuff with multiple exposures in it. I also have a Brownie that is a spiritual cousin- it makes 6x9 exposures on 620, has two focusing zones (5-10 feet, 10feet-infinity) and two shutter speeds - 1/60th-ish, and B). Quite a bit better built than the Holga, and with a real glass lens, I suspect it will produce much more refined images, with their own distinct look. I'll post examples here when I have the film developed.
 

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Andrew O'Neill said:
Two of my favourite cameras, Holga, and my Grand Dad's Brownie Six-20.
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I am jealous that you have your grandfather's Brownie Andrew. I wish I had my grandmother's but it has not survived the years.

I haven't had my Holga out since last year but I have been shooting my Brownie pretty regularly this year. I have been shooting a roll every week and trying to print at least one shot from each roll. I am a little behind on the printing.

Last year I was looking at some of the pictures that my grandmother made using her own Brownie. She passed away not long after I was born but my Mom said that she did all of it herself, developing and printing. She lived on a farm in the Red River Valley of the North up in northwest Minnesota so getting to a photo shop to develop film was not easy. I was amazed at the quality of her prints. She used a little printer that Kodak sold at the time. I picked one of these up a little bit ago and will be working with it as well. I decided I would try to become as accomplished with these simple tools as she obviously was.

I am not there yet.
 

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We are still you to fix your Holgas Jeremy .. There is something terribly wrong with them.
 

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We are still you to fix your Holgas Jeremy .. There is something terribly wrong with them.
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LOL! I know!

I submitted images this past year to both the Holga Week competition and Krappy Kamera competition and didn't make the final cut. I need to get them fixed!



Jeremy
 

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vedostuu said:
btw: A crazy idea popped into my mind; have anyone tried to use Holga lens in enlarger?
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hey vedostuu
this isn't with a holga but could have been
its the meniscus harvested out of a box camera that I sometimes use to enlarge with
(fun lens but --- not ez to focus ! )
it was shot with the same lens it was printed with
 

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Just as I’m not ipressed at all by, say, James Hetfield being able to play master of Puppets on a Fisher-Price guitar (as if it’s supposed to show how great he is, and where I’d be supposed to be all over the floor about how great an artist he would then be), I am not impressed by the occasional good photograph coming out of a Holga. Like, why should I be?

What would be so cool about Yo-Yo Ma playing on a Cello made out of plywood? Would that, like, show-off his talent, or better yet, make us understand that plywood is a legitimate material able to compete with any Stradivarius violin out there?
Sounds like Kraaaap but hey, it’s Yo-Yo Ma sounding like Kraaaap. There’s suddenly something beautiful about the kraaaap sound.

Because you know, a Holga is cheap junk and yet it’s a tool yadda yadda...

Anyhow, I threw my holga in the trash with great satisfaction. My daily dose of photography is always spent with quality gear. I won’t live long enough to have even a minute to spare with garbage in my hands. There’s just no amount of anything that will convince me to pick up a holga iver my Leicas, xpans, Rolleis...


 

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Beautiful
 

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Jeremy Mudd said:
LOL! I know!
I submitted images this past year to both the Holga Week competition and Krappy Kamera competition and didn't make the final cut. I need to get them fixed!
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The jury is like "meh, this guy is fake, probably even digital".

jnantz said:
this isn't with a holga but could have been
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I tested it, Holga lens as enlarger lens. Works well. Ended up with pretty good looking prints with a bit vignetting. I'm still confused. Maybe Holga look it is combination not in focus+film curling+shiny black plastic inside. Otherwise I cannot comprehend..
 

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NB23 said:
There’s just no amount of anything that will convince me to pick up a holga iver my Leicas, xpans, Rolleis...
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Not until you get tired of hunting for that perfect sharpness, that perfect focus, that perfectly crop etc. I was thinking the same some time ago but now I'm shooting pinholes handheld and on moving targets. But I don't still feel like I would shoot with Holga. It is a tool that I don't currently need or maybe truthfully: a tool I don't know how to use for my visions.

Goes a bit off-topic but I believe photography is about telling stories and portraying mood. It has its place for reproduction but people watch photos to get emotions. And to make such photos, you don't need an expensive camera. You don't even need focused image.
 

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Just developed my first images with a120wpc I bought last weekend. I also tried Rodinal for the first time. I used HP5+, stand development for 1 hour in 1+100. Should have I done 30 minutes instead? Anyway, here is one of the images. Got some black speckles even after carefully cleaning neg. Foma 400 and PMK coming this week from B&H..
 

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DMJ said:
Just developed my first images with a120wpc I bought last weekend.
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Beautiful. I think you have planned this composition well before shooting and your work has really payed off.
 

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vedostuu said:
Beautiful. I think you have planned this composition well before shooting and your work has really payed off.
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Thank you; got inspired by the wonderful images members here are posting ! I'm thinking on getting a 120N as well...
 

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Not trying to be argumentative, but if that's a slam on anyone like me who enjoys using a holga from time to time, yet also can make a damn fine image otherwise with "normal" equipement - I don't appreciate it one bit.

I'm not taking images with a holga to impress you or anyone else with my "mad skills" - I just enjoy it.

Jeremy
 

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Jeremy Mudd said:
Not trying to be argumentative, but if that's a slam on anyone like me who enjoys using a holga from time to time, yet also can make a damn fine image otherwise with "normal" equipement - I don't appreciate it one bit.
Jeremy
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Probably just jealous. As we all .. The thing is that it is quite rare to get such images like you have captured even on "expensive" cameras - not to speak of plastic wonders..
 

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I was just thinking out loud... guess like criticizing dog meat in a chinese forum
 

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NB23 said:
I was just thinking out loud...
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Nah, as always you have decided to be the arbiter of what should be.

Jeremy's pictures are gorgeous.

But the real question is.. why are you here in this LoFi thread? What part about LoFi don't you understand? There are plenty of other threads where you can tell people about your Hasselblads, Rolleis, Leicas etc. Pretty sure there are actual specific forums.

Oh look, there are! Let me help you:

https://www.photrio.com/forum/forums/medium-format-cameras-and-accessories.72/

https://www.photrio.com/forum/forums/rangefinder-forum.76/
 

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Besides that, got any HOLGA ART to share?

 

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Why is it that, the more dismissive someone is in a manner of image making, the less likely they are to share their own work?
 

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eddie said:
Why is it that, the more dismissive someone is in a manner of image making, the less likely they are to share their own work?
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I don’t know!!

The thing I like about myself is that I put my money where my mouth is.
 

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Huss said:
Why are you here? Serious question, this is the LoFi forum. What part of that do you not understand?
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Serious and satisfactory answer: I am a LoFi artist, even moreso within these past 10 days.
 
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