2 New Holga Lenses Released!

Posted on September 4, 2009 by By Andrew
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Hot off the press news!

Holga have been busy beavering away and have just released two new lenses for your Holga!

The two tele-converter lenses, models HT-25 (tele lens) and HW-05(wide lens) fit onto you holga and either lengthen(HT-25) or shorten (HW-05) the focal length, therefore creating a tele or wide lens.

Another new release is a fisheye viewfinder that sits on top of your holga enabling you to see the subject ‘fisheyed’ before taking the photo. This viewfinder is a companion piece to the holga fisheye lens.

Here’s some in-depth specs:

Tele Lens

Package Includes:
- Tele Lens(plastic lens)

- Lens pouch

- English manual

Specifications :

For Holga 120 (any model):

Lens angle - 46 degree

Construction – 2 groups of 1 element each

Magnification – 2.5x

Length & largest diameter – 39 x 57mm

Weight – 36g

For Holga 135 (any model):

Lens angle - 34 degree

Construction – 2 groups of 1 element each

Magnification – 2.5x

Length & largest diameter – 39 x 57mm

Weight – 36g

Wide Lens

Package Includes:
- Wide Angle Lens(plastic lens)

- Lens pouch

- English manual

Specifications :

For Holga 120 (any model):

Lens angle – 93 degree

Construction – 2 groups of 1 element each

Magnification – 0.5x

Length & largest diameter – 38 x 57mm

Weight – 38g

For Holga 135 (any model):

Lens angle - 70 degree

Construction – 2 groups of 1 element each

Magnification – 0.5x

Length & largest diameter – 38 x 57mm

Weight – 38g

Fisheye Viewfinder

Package Includes:
- Fisheye viewer FV-1

- Mounting Bracket MB-120

- manual

Description:

This is a handy piece of accessory for use in conjuncyion with the Holga Fisheye Lens FEL-120 to make it possible to envisage what the resulting fisheye image would be like

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Looks interesting!! We’ll hopefully have the lenses to test (and compare to the normal lens!) very soon!

Comments

Posted by Thomas on September 4th, 2009, 19:30 (Reply to this comment)
Looks very interesting. Hope it’s not to expensive!!
Posted by Andrew(Admin) on September 4th, 2009, 19:35 (Reply to this comment)
I don’t think they will be so expensive, looks like $10ish off ebay plus postage.
Posted by HolgaJen on September 4th, 2009, 19:40 (Reply to this comment)
Sweeeeeeet!
Posted by Mathias Meyer on September 4th, 2009, 19:41 (Reply to this comment)
Oh sweet moses! That’s some really good stuff right there. I shall buy them immediately!
Posted by Thomas on September 4th, 2009, 20:01 (Reply to this comment)
Very cool. And good price, not like the Fisheye one
Posted by Thomas on September 4th, 2009, 20:33 (Reply to this comment)
Sorry for that many posts, but I found this on ebay, maybe you’ll test them, too.
See here: http://tinyurl.com/fishey
(Link to a German-Forum with my Tread)
Posted by Mathias Meyer on September 4th, 2009, 21:07 (Reply to this comment)
Just ordered mine on ebay. Oh yeah! Really looking forward to trying them out.
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Posted by Diesel on September 4th, 2009, 22:56 (Reply to this comment)
do they repalce the normal lens or add to it? i don’t understand much about focal length.
Posted by Derek Von Evil on September 4th, 2009, 23:27 (Reply to this comment)
These types of lenses used to be fairly common for fixed lens rangefinders. They are an accessory lens that works in conjuction with the existing lens. They normally change the F-stop value which requires some basic math to compensate for that.
Posted by panelomo on September 5th, 2009, 09:08 (Reply to this comment)
damn!
Posted by HolgaJen on September 5th, 2009, 14:44 (Reply to this comment)
I ordered some off Ebay as well. Going to test them doing self portraits I think. Oh I’m so excited!! (And so happy that they are plastic lenses too)
Posted by Diesel on September 5th, 2009, 15:23 (Reply to this comment)
i wonder if this is the start of the holga company taking a more hands on approach to their marketing. maybe then people will start to realize that LSI doesn’t make Holgas.
Posted by Gary Moyer on September 5th, 2009, 15:56 (Reply to this comment)
Thanks for the heads up, just ordered the wide angle one.
Posted by smotret on September 5th, 2009, 18:35 (Reply to this comment)
Do you know by chance where to buy the HW-05 lense in Germany/Austria?
Posted by Thomas on September 5th, 2009, 18:58 (Reply to this comment)
@smotret only on ebay.
Price is 7€ and shipping about 6€
They send to Germany/Austria, too.
Posted by smotret on September 6th, 2009, 11:27 (Reply to this comment)
@Thomas Thank you.
Posted by Gene Branaman on September 8th, 2009, 15:49 (Reply to this comment)
Very cool!! Could an official Holga close-up lens be very far off? I hope not! I get good results with my home close-up mod but I’d like to see what an “official” one might do!
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Posted by Sandy Wijaya on September 10th, 2009, 15:25 (Reply to this comment)
great!! must buy items…
Posted by m-theory on October 5th, 2009, 15:02 (Reply to this comment)
its easily placed on holga 120 cfn?And anybody knows if its less wide than fisheye lens??thanx
Posted by Rauder on June 19th, 2010, 19:48 (Reply to this comment)
Don’t laugh, I’m absolutely clueless; is it possible to get Holga effects in a DSLR camera? Like do you get lenses that create a Holga effect or are Holga cameras completely different??