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Shooting with a Holga attachment

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Shooting with a Holga attachment

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After you've spent hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars on a really nice camera body, I really can't recommend enough putting a really cheap plastic toy lens on the front. Now, I'm actually being serious here. You're probably familiar with a Holga camera. It's a Russian cheap kind of toy camera with a plastic lens and a lot of light leaks and a lot of other optical problems. It shoots medium-format film and has become very popular over the last few years because it shoots these really nice kind of randomly beaten-up images. There are companies that sell Holga lenses that you can attach to your SLR. It's a Holga lens attached to a modified mounting system for Canon or Nikon, or other cameras. Attach it to the front and you actually have a Holga-equipped SLR that you can use to shoot digital Holga images. Now, these images are very, very beat up. The Holga lens that I got has extreme vignetting. The focus is pretty soft. Your focus mechanism--there is no auto-focus on a Holga--your…

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