Manual holga

There is the added option to put the camera in "B" bulb setting. The bulb setting allows the shutter to stay open for as long as necessary for long exposures. This makes it possible to do night photography, getting images without a flash in low light situations or even painting with light. Both a tripod and cable release are recommended when using the Holga in the bulb setting. Put on your mask and come on In!

Two AA batteries are required for operating the built-In flash. Take following steps to install the batteries -. Although this camera is basically a fixed focus camera, it still offers four choices of object distances. There are four symbols on the focus ring to select the following object distances -. More precise setting for object distances can be achieved by setting the focus ring at positions in between two symbols. This function is for taking extended-exposure pictures at nighttime or indoors to give the picture a sense of motion.

The steps to be taken are as follows -. Holga's lo-fi attributes create distinctive images not created with any other conventional camera. These are the reasons the Holga camera has gained a huge cult following. Teachers have employed Holga as a tool to educate students in the fundamentals of photography while exploring unpredictable and unexpected photos created by this camera.

Professionals carry Holga for their fine-art appeal. The pictures show how the lens is utilized through the photos it produces the blurrier ones are from an earlier product. Awwww, i thought you were going to show how to put the insides of a digital point and shoot on the Holga to take digital pictures in style..

Sorry if I ask a dumb question but what is the difference exactly between a normal camera photo and the holga? I mean what does it do exactly? Reply 11 years ago on Introduction.

HUGE difference! You'd have to be a photographer to really enjoy what comes out of using a Holga or Diana. I'd say the main difference is that a regular camera if we're talking about film cameras creates sharp images, whereas a Holga blurs vignettes the edges and gives the picture a soft, dreamlike feel to it. This is caused by a combination of light leaking into the cameras seams, the heat affecting the chemicals on the film, and the plastic lens being unable to create as sharp of an image as a glass lens would.

While this is cool, - I'm all for using retro lenses on new bodies - I think you're missing the point. The Holga gave such ridiculously cool results because of several factors, not just the lens.

One, it's film, which is inherently unpredictable and delicate, so heat or cold will affect your image. Two, the Holga is cheap.

It's made of plastic, which is easily broken or warped, thus letting light and dust into the body. Really, I wouldn't call this a total digital Holga conversion, you have the aberrations and imperfections that the cheap lens produces, but without the light leaks and effects of temperature and atmosphere, I'd have to file this one under a simple lens hack.

I am showing how one would put a holga lens on their DSLR, and then in the last panel giving my analysis. Of course it's not as "awesome" as a real holga, but if anyone has the desire to now put a plastic lens on their camera, this is one method. I would love for this instructable to start up a wave of lens mods. Please if you have a better method of doing this, post it up and put a comment to that instructable here!

Now that I have read up on it, I undertand. I do not understand why I would want to emulate a camera barely better then a brownie box camera, to try to emulate a crappy picture, better to buy a good photo editing software program and learn to play and superimpose double expose and all that. What would be way cooler is to adapt this technology for a cheapo digital camera, or your cell phone camera if you have one.

There are now serious tonnages of old slr cameras begging for purchasers for 5 dollars at garbage sales. Imagine that silly 10 dollar digital throw away camera, hog tied to a huge telephoto.