Comments on: Holga: Plastic or Glass. The Shootout

By: Duke Shin

Duke Shin — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:40:38 +0000

Just Don’t leave either in a hot car.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:39:00 +0000

Big user of the plastic lens and the vignetting is what attracts me to the Holga. I wonder how they would compare with colour film

By: DOMINIC

DOMINIC — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:33:32 +0000

Try unscrewing the lenses and putting them onto the opposite cameras. I think you’ll find that the extra vignetting is from the camera, not the lens. Fantastic article. I’ll be referring it.

By: theo

theo — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 04:45:32 +0000

from these shots, to me it seems like the glass makes the center of the shot sharper and the sides more unfocused/blurred, whereas the plastic maintains the same quality throughout.

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The Massive Guide to TLRs Part 3: Toy camera TLRs « Holga Blog — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:41:57 +0000

[...] is simply the lens; one is plastic and one is glass. We’ve covered the difference before in a test shoot showing the plastic lens vignetted significantly more, but they both had similar amounts of [...]

By: Reatha

Reatha — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:24:58 +0000

I have a gtlr and I love it. It seems to depend on the photo as to whether I get a lot of vignetting or not. I can always ad more in the darkroom if I want. How close I am to the subject seems to effect the blur at the edges which can be quite extreme. I bought glass because I use it for weddings and wanted a little more sharpness but mostly to remind my clients that photography is fun. Which it does and thats what it’s all about really. I’m having a ball. I just about cried the first time I saw a holga picture come up in the developer, it’s not just photography its a revelation!

By: Mauricio Sapata

Mauricio Sapata — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:08:27 +0000

I don’t really understand why people find so outrageous an Holga fitted with a glass lens, unless you use your Holga without ANY modification it seems pretty normal to me, it’s just another mod in my opinion.

By: jonas

jonas — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:19:47 +0000

still a fan of plastic!
what I can see from these shots is that the soft corners have a more distorted feel on the plastic while the glass is more just blurred. glass seem to generally give less sharpness. (or is it just less differense? sharp to blur..hm) that and the glass seems to let more light in. makes sense though.
if I buy another one I’ll definetly get a glass though!