Holga 120S Medium Format Viewfinder Fixed Focus Camera with Built-in Lens
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Sales Rank: 803
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Product Description
The world famous Medium-format wonder! A cult favorite with a fanatical global following, the Holga produces extraordinary low-tech works of art with the bare minimum of mechanical function. Soft focusing, full double-exposure capability, intense vignetting, and unpredictable light leaks all contribute to the Holga's incredible photo effects. Each Holga is unique and produces signature images and peculiarities of its own. Buy several and throw some wood on your creative fire! Uses 120 film.
Product Specification
- Brand:
- Holga
- EAN:
- 0410000002308
- Feature:
- Multiple exposure capability
Hot shoe for flash - Manufacturer:
- Holga
- ProductGroup:
- Photography
- Title:
- Holga 120S Medium Format Viewfinder Fixed Focus Camera with Built-in Lens
- UPC:
- 410000002308
- MPN:
- 132120
Customer Reviews
Takes a bit of work but good things can be done with it...
1st.DO NOT BUY a Holga expecting very much.It is very cheap simple camera that isn't worth much.Exposure control is to be kind; very limited, and focusing with one is a pain.2nd.There are a lot of very good web sites and images shot with the Holga that are nothing short of spectacular.The power and feeling evoked by those images are a credit to the photogs who shot them.3rd.There are a lot of very bad web sites and images shot with the Holga that are nothing short of garbage.Experimental photography...
7/28/2005 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
Fine Art Camera
For all its imperfections, it more than makes up for it with its unique quirks. The cheap plastic lens is its personality, as every Holga is different. It seems that the more lensaberrations that it has, the better. Almost every type of photographic genre has been approached with a Holga, from fashion to fine art. The quality of the images resembles dreams and mental snapshots out of the subconscious. There is definitely a melancholy, nostalgic quality that you can also get from a Holga, that you...
11/18/2004 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
Fun camera with surprises...
This is a great camera, used by beginners and pros alike. I read an article about a pro photographer who hangs 500 ft backdrops behind sequoia trees, photographing with $$$ equipment...but also is a Holga addict, shooting wildlife in Africa.I've shot many rolls of film on the Holga (I esp. love ILFORD XP2 400 super B+W), and the results are always surprising. Ditch the 645 format adapter for the classic 6x6 Holga vignetting. And I've also gotten great results overlapping frames.Some advice would...
10/29/2004 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
Quirky, Fun Camera
First of all, this camera is intended to be fun, but can also be interesting. The camera is plastic. It is often full of light leaks that create odd irregularities in the photos. The lens is a cheap plastic that can cause distortions, generally fairly mild, in the photographs.BUT, it uses medium format (120) film, and the fact that the negative is four times the size means that if you are careful you may find you get a photograph out of this camera better than the one that comes out of your 10 times...
9/21/2004 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
Great quirky medium format camera
Ok, this is not your basic point-and shoot, in fact the camera as it is shipped barely works at all- you'll have light leaks, the back will fly off, it shoots in a rectangular rather than square format, blah, blah.But, if you want to really break out of conventional photography and have some fun, this is the way to go.Do some searching around on the Internet about how to modify one of these babies, though. Mine has no light leaks, can be used in a "bulb" mode, and shoots square format, as a holga...
5/11/2004 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
