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Why do people like the Holga ( and similar cameras) so much ? To most people deliberately buying a camera that gives technically poor results would just not make any sense at all ! Are you a Holga lover or someone that it makes no sense to ? I personally love the Holga, I have no expectations of it compared to my modern Sony digital and am never really disappointed by the photos I get from it were as with the Sony I ialmost expect excellent results and only get a small percentage that I like the result of. I like film and feel that I get more from it and the fact I only have 12 shots focuses my mind a little more on what I'm shooting and if it will work with the limitations of the Holga and the loaded film , it's almost a sort of challenge to get a photo I like from something so limited.. It's also very cheap to buy removing the worry of damaging a very expensive camera that I may not wish to take out in conditions or activities that may damage it ( I guess this would apply to any cheap camera) Some how in my day job whilst sitting down with 10 or so people we got talking about photography and one of the people said that digital photography is so good now that it almost looks better than reality and I sort of got what he was saying to my eye sometimes a digital image looks far to clean than how I see life in reality ( maybe I just need glasses) The Holga or my other basic cameras seem to give more of an artists impression of what was in the frame. My particular Holga gives reasonable focus in the centre which is how my eyes seem to operate, I focus on the thing I'm looking at and the things towards the edge are less in focus and I naturally place the thing I'm looking at in the centre of my vision.
Anyway what are your thoughs good or bad ?
Why do people like the Holga ( and similar cameras) so much ? To most people deliberately buying a camera that gives technically poor results would just not make any sense at all ! Are you a Holga lover or someone that it makes no sense to ? I personally love the Holga, I have no expectations of it compared to my modern Sony digital and am never really disappointed by the photos I get from it were as with the Sony I ialmost expect excellent results and only get a small percentage that I like the result of. I like film and feel that I get more from it and the fact I only have 12 shots focuses my mind a little more on what I'm shooting and if it will work with the limitations of the Holga and the loaded film , it's almost a sort of challenge to get a photo I like from something so limited.. It's also very cheap to buy removing the worry of damaging a very expensive camera that I may not wish to take out in conditions or activities that may damage it ( I guess this would apply to any cheap camera) Some how in my day job whilst sitting down with 10 or so people we got talking about photography and one of the people said that digital photography is so good now that it almost looks better than reality and I sort of got what he was saying to my eye sometimes a digital image looks far to clean than how I see life in reality ( maybe I just need glasses) The Holga or my other basic cameras seem to give more of an artists impression of what was in the frame. My particular Holga gives reasonable focus in the centre which is how my eyes seem to operate, I focus on the thing I'm looking at and the things towards the edge are less in focus and I naturally place the thing I'm looking at in the centre of my vision.
Anyway what are your thoughs good or bad ?