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First off, you need to know what you are buying. The seller received some negative feedback from people who didn't know what they were buying. If you don't know what a Holga is, I will explain. The Holga is a medium format camera developed in China. It was intended to be a cheap camera Chinese families could afford. The end result was a cheap plastic camera, even the lens is plastic. A poor camera by most standards. But, artists found the plastic lens made for some really cool photos. Someone, to their eternal credit created a DSLR version of the holga lens. Which is what this review is about. This lens is FANTASTIC! The images have an amazing old school quality to them. You do however need quite a bit of light or a lower shutter speed. You just need to play around with the lens to learn it's strengths and weaknesses. I am still playing around, but I can already tell that it will produce some amazing images. The lens it's self is cheapish feeling plastic; but that's the point. It's not a perfect fit, you can jiggle it around a bit. That's not a problem though. If the lens ever does get damaged, it's cheap enough to replace. Heck, I may even get a second one to have as a backup. Overall this lens is pretty amazing IF you know what you are doing with it. If you are expecting the kind of quality you get out of a glass lens, this isn't the lens for you. If you are an artist and want another tool in your bag of tricks, this lens highly recommended.Read full review
What an awesome lens. It creates the pictures that were made 50-60 years ago with the original "camera for the masses" Holga. Of course the quality is not great, but thats part of the magic of this lens. And if you constanly have to use that $700 DSLR as a point and shoot, you can forget that too. Being a student and practioner of photography, I wish I had found this much sooner.
I've been a Holga shooter for a while. Good camera to drop behind the seat, etc just to have one. ANYway, This makes a good shoot thru body cap. At f:8, you can just whip it out in broad daylight and snap somebody. Or something. I did miss the built in bokeh extras in the picture, but I'm sure they'll be appreciated. But now I can take digital pictures with all the quality of my 1911 Kodak. I thank you for your service, and I may (later) but another.
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I bought this product because I've been wanting a Holga for a while- it was either this or a plain and simple pinhole lens. I like this lens, it adds a nice Vignette to the pictures and a nice crisp focus around the central point. But, it requires A LOT of light. Definitely fun to work with, although I wish I had gotten the one with the filter wheel. I can't wait to break this one out during the Summer and get some pictures of the water, I have a feeling this will do great for that.
Nice results, yet very chip lens. I use it on a Nikon D700 FX camera and it makes a surrealistic pictures. For best results. use it at high ISA (at least 800).