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.
The Holga, a plastic 120 film camera first designed in China in the early ‘80s before developing a global cult following, is no longer being made. US distributor Freestyle Photographic announced the ...
Love trashy, low-contrast photographs taken through a plastic lens, but find them a little flat? What you need is the Holga 120 3D Stereo Camera, Lomo's medium format stereo-shooter that grabs two ...
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 ...
The Holga is a medium format mechanical toy camera that became a fan favorite when it was launched in 1981. Now, thirty-four years later, the company that currently makes the camera has closed up shop ...
I saw one of those suckers at an Urban Outfitters. It's also on amazon. Or Instagram, which is free, and ultimately more useful than Hipstamatic, because uploading to Flickr et al. is built in, plus ...
It is ironic, considering today’s technological advancements, that sharing faded photos with saturated colors, known as vignetting in technical photography term, has become something of a trend–browse ...
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 ...
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 ...
If your childhood memories contain moments of playing with a cheap point-and-shoot camera that produced odd vignetting, chances are you had a Holga camera -- even if you didn't know it. Designer ...
A plastic camera, in part, inspired the simple genius of Instagram. The photo-sharing app's co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, announced Monday they plan to leave Facebook, which famously ...
In an age where apps like Instagram can make digital photos look like old-school Polaroids, the analog SLR cameras that originally produced physical photos are dwindling in popularity, or even ...