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The Holga's cheap construction and simple meniscus lens often yields pictures that display vignetting, blur, light leaks, and other distortions. The camera's quality problems have become a virtue among some photographers, with Holga photos winning awards and competitions in art and news
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The camera is a massive part of the cult following of the "Lomographic Socity" (Detailed Blog coming soon)

Models

The holga comes in a variety of models listed below

120

  • Holga 120S – The original Holga. Fixed shutter speed, adjustable focus, plastic lens, ineffective adjustable f-stop switch, hot shoe, and 6x4.5 film mask. Although now out of production, the 'WOCA' is actually identical but with glass lens.
  • Holga 120N – Updated version with the same plastic lens, tripod mount, bulb exposure mode, an easier-to-move film counter window switch, and an additional 6x6 film mask
  • Holga 120SF – A standard Holga 120S, with a flash
  • Holga 120FN – A Holga 120N with a flash
  • Holga 120CFN – A Holga 120FN with a color flash
  • Holga 120GN – A Holga 120N with a glass lens
  • Holga 120GFN – A Holga 120FN with a glass lens
  • Holga 120GCFN – A Holga 120FN with a color flash and glass lens
  • Holga 120TLR - A Holga 120CFN with a twin-lens reflex (TLR) viewfinder in-lieu of a standard finder, the colour flash has been relocated to the location of the standard Holga viewfinder
  • Holga 120GTLR - A Holga 120TLR with a glass lens (both these cameras are recently introduced)
  • Holga 120WPC – A wide pinhole version of the 120N shoots 6x9 or 6x12

35mm

  • Holga 135 – A Holga with 35mm film
  • Holga 135BC – A Holga already made for 35mm film, plastic lens and the same lens mount of the holgas 120 but with 45mm lens. "BC" means "Black Corner, the 135BC model has a built in transparent mask which creates a vignetting effect
  • Holga 135PC – The pinhole version of the Holga 135 BC
  • Holga 135AFX – 38 mm f/3.8 lens with infrared autofocus, automatic film load, built-in pop-up flash and interlock shutter release
  • Holga K202 – Meow Kitty camera in the shape of a cat face with blinking lights
Mods

There is a large number of mods easly done with the Holga thinks such as a paper mask where you replace the insert with a paper mask to allow effects such as this



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