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The Holga D

duien — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:18:06 -0800

The Holga D, a digital camera concept based on the popular Holga medium-format camera. It's a minimalist digital camera that maintains the mystery of film. There's no display, just a little e-ink shot counter on top. The controls are equally spare: shutter speed, ISO, and a completely manual lens.

In the old days of analog photography one had to wait, wait for finishing an entire roll of film, wait for development and so on. But now, in the age of digital photography many photographers agree that the anticipation and delayed gratification of analog photography made the overall experience of photography even sweeter! From the front it may look like just another digital camera, may be a bit minimal, but the backside is surprising, as it does not have a display! Even though Holga D is a digital camera, in order to achieve its simplicity, it reduces the feature set to absolute minimum. Even the display is not there! So your photographs remain mysterious until you download the images. This makes the experience quite similar to the good old film based cameras.

Urban Traps

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:38:54 -0800

Urban Traps "Urban Traps is a project where we lay traps for certain subcultures. Our goal is protect neighborhoods from infestation and collect different species for further study."

This site is dedicated to the Fujipet (フジペット) camera

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:01:23 -0800

This site is dedicated to the Fujipet (フジペット) camera ``The Fujipet is considered a "toy camera." It isn't built like a toy camera, as the body is made of plastic and aluminum and is quite sturdy, but most of these cameras sport a plastic lens. It was intended as a starter camera for young people, easy enough that even "women and children" could use it.''

Sharper lenses won't help, realism is unrelated to Reality

cccorlew — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:18:19 -0800

Can 1,335 bad lens photographs be wrong? Or 8,516? There are even more if you count Holgas, Dianas, and the like. I'm not sure that digitalsucks, but I applaud the desire to cast off the tyranny of perfection; to expose for the secrets and develop for the surprises with toy cameras, trash cameras and homemade wonders.

World Toy Camera Day Oct. 22, 2005

PenguinBukkake — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:00:09 -0800

World Toy Camera Day October 22, 2005 (via toycamera.com)

Creepy Mechanical Santa

Rothko — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:54:36 -0800

From squid vendors to the odd graffito and manhole cover, this expatriate snaps oddities and noise of life in Taiwan with the help of his little toy Holga.

Multiple shutter speeds are for wusses.

kaibutsu — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:07:57 -0800

Some would say that Holga never really died... Welcome to the surreal world of plastic photography. The run away champion site is DigitalSucks, though great galleries and daring feats of technical innovation are scattered across the net. I'm already looking to get my first Holga.