Holga Camera Lenses
The characteristics of Holga is such that a particular type of effect is present in each of the photographs taken with it. A Holga camera lens allows you to recreate this effect without having to purchase a Holga camera itself.
The legend of Holga
Unusually, Holga is not a brand name for a camera manufacturer. Instead it is a type of camera first developed in the early 1980s in China. The idea behind the camera was to be able to provide a cheap, mass produced camera that would be affordable by people without the level of disposable income allowing them to buy one of the better known brand models.
The low tech quality of the materials used in the manufacture of the camera, including the style of lenses it uses, led to a unique style of photograph being produced, without the sharpness of image that were available from more expensive cameras. For that reason, the Holga developed a cult following of its own and is still prized today by people who like to adopt a back to basics approach.
Types available
Holga camera lens are available for all the major brand names of camera. Despite the original low technical specifications, you can buy a Holga lens for a digital camera , helping you to recreate the unique style of a Holga image, even with a much more expensive and sophisticated machine taking the picture.
Various specific types of lens are available in the Holga style, including a pinhole variety. This unique lens recreates a very old fashioned style of image as was originally developed in the first pinhole cameras to be produced.
The fish eye style Holga lens is a popular style, giving you a wider, curved type of image, so named because of the shape of a fishs eye. Many professional photographers use this effect for some of their pictures to add a different feel to the image theyre capturing.
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