The iconic Holga is THE medium format plastic fantastic camera
The Holga has inspired countless photographers (experts and beginners alike) to embrace the beauty of saturated colors, crazy focus, dreamlike perspectives, and sexy square prints.
This particular Holga features a gaggle of tasty new features. A colour wheel tints your flash with yellow, red, blue, or clear gels. A "B" setting holds the shutter open for dreamy, natural background / flashed foreground images, or pure night-time long exposures. A tripod nut keeps your Holga steady, and a new 6x6 plastic mask yields tighter, sharper images. In addition to the camera itself, this starter kit includes the abbreviated softcover version of "The World Through A Plastic Lens" and everything you need to get shooting including:
Holga Color Flash Camera
120 film roll
AA batteries
Opaque tape
Editorial poster
Full documentation
A bit of Holga history for you: The Holga camera was first designed in 1982 in the People's Republic of China (PRC). At the time, 120 rollfilm in black-and-white was the most widely available film in mainland China. The Holga was intended to provide an inexpensive mass-market camera for working-class Chinese in order to record family portraits and events. After the cameras began to be distributed in the West, some photographers took to using the Holga for its surrealistic, impressionistic scenes for landscape, still life, portrait, and especially, street photography. In this respect, the Holga became the successor to the Diana and other 'toy' cameras previously used in such work. A celebrated Holga photograph by David Burnett of former vice-president Al Gore during a campaign appearance earned a top prize in a 2001 White House News Photographers' Association Eyes Of History award ceremony.
Here's what all the fuss is about - http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=holga
HERE'S WHAT THE PROFESSOR THINKS - "I'M USUALLY A FAN OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY, BUT IN THE CASE OF THE HOLGA, THERE'S NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT THE HOLGA PRODUCES SOME INCREDIBLE LOOKING PHOTOGRAPHY, WITHOUT COSTING THE EARTH. IT'S A BIT RANDOM, BUT THAT'S ALL PART OF THE HOLGA EXPERIENCE. LO - FI PHOTOGRAPHY ROCKS!"
FEATURES
Holga Color Flash Camera
120 film roll
AA batteries
Opaque tape
Editorial poster
Full documentation |
