Cellphone cameras are getting better and better, but some of us still long for the days of film. Even though high-resolution digital cameras are more impressive than ever, the lowly Holga camera ...
Before I tell you what the digital Holga D doesn't do, let me recap what Lomo's plastic-fantastic Holga medium-format film camera does do. The Holga has a cheap plastic lens, an even cheaper ...
Meet Holga, the toy camera from China. Who would have thought when a Hong Kong businessman created a cheap, all-plastic camera for the masses in 1981, that it would eventually inspire a ...
Photographer Mike Martens experimented with a DIY mashup of a $25,000 Phase One P25 camera back, a $25 Holga 120N camera, and some gaffer tape a few years back, and came up with the “Holga-cam of the ...
Add some unpredictability to your photos with this plastic lens with the same design as the famed Holga toy cameras. Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and has been writing about and ...
I have three Holga cameras sitting in a box with at least one still loaded with film. Plastic and unpredictable, the low-fi aesthetic makes portraits and landscapes look dreamy and from another time.
A rudimentary plastic camera made in China in the 1980s became an iconic item – even influencing a certain photography app you probably have on your phone. It looks like a scene from a Southern Gothic ...
Before digital, some cameras could run battery-free entirely on mechanics. Now there’s a mobile “printer” that uses the same idea to turn smartphone snapshots into real instant film. The Holga Printer ...