A detail from the vintage car by the ice cream van…
If you put a Holga lens on your DSLR you must forget about auto focus. In fact forget about manual focus as well. What you’ve got are four ikon on the lens, from ‘close’ to ‘mountain’. If you can remember the intervals and brought a measuring tape, you might the focus just right. If you are like me, you take an educated guess – if you remember. If you’re off – well, ‘blurry’ never looked so good 🙂
This car in this image makes you wonder in what decade it was taken. I think I took it two weeks ago 🙂
I love the dreamy, soft focus look of this plastic lens. I love my sharp Nikon images too this has a special feel to it.
Using the Holga lens has its challenges which is part of the fun. For instance you can’t crop or you would ruin the vignette effect. So you better get the composition right.
Back at the ice cream van – but this time with my new friend Holga. She may come cheap but she sure has a lot of personality.
Holga is a camera brand originating in Hong Kong with the purpose of bringing affordable photography to the Chinese. The cameras are made all of plastic and in time the special look you get from wobbly plastic and light leaks have created its own following.
I do have a real Holga camera. I even have some films waiting in the fridge. But as I haven’t yet figured a way to be able to afford to have them developed and scanned, my new friend is a Holga lens, fitted for my DSLR Nikon.
What on Earth, you may well ask, is the point of taking out of focus images with light leaks with a DSLR? To me, the point is that it’s fun to play. This next blog-series is about the Holga lens and the special look it creates.
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