The hottest thing in toy cameras right now may be the Gakkenflex Twin Lens Reflex that’s available as a DIY kit From Gakken Mook (magazine, book) in Vol 25. The best part (or worst if you’re not into this sort of thing) is that you must assemble using instructions in Japanese. There’s already a small cult following on flickr.
The longest geekiest part of our guide yet! Discover over 30 cameras you probably have never heard of, and decide for yourself whether to add them to your collection.
Compared to ‘proper’ TLRs, specifically designed toy cameras are relative youngsters to the camera market. There are some TLRs that enthusiasts have adopted as toy cameras (the Lubitel 2 and 166U/B, plus a whole heap of plastic bodied/plastic lensed pseduo TLRs from the 60’s and 70’s), however these haven’t been specifically designed as a toy »
In the first part of our TLR guide we covered the benefits of TLRs and the heavy-hitters in the TLR market. We were originally going to cover Pseudo, Toy and other TLRs in this article, but it ended up growing into a behemoth of an article, so we’ve split it down into a »
In our first of a series of articles on TLRs, we run through the history of these strange beasts, why people use them, and a brief rundown of the most popular TLRs on the market. Stay tuned for further articles that will feature some of the less popular,pseudo, and toy TLRs, plus some super-special in depth »
May I present to you the 6×9 Kershaw Eight-Twenty Penguin. Released in the 50’s and made in Britain, it was crap even back then. One shutter speed (or bulb), and a choice of two apertures, plus some dodgy manufacturing didn’t leave me feeling confident of getting decent photos.
This review is a wee bit different to others. Two holgablog writers both ended up getting the same camera within a few days of each other (even though they live 1000’s of miles apart), so they have joined forces for a review-duel! Two holgalblog gladiators battling it out in the arena of…actually, I have no idea where I’m going with that. The camera-o’-choice was the Zeiss Ikon Nettar.
For people on a limited budget thinking about getting a medium format “toy” camera there are a lot of options but for the most part they seem drawn to picking between the Holga 120N and the Diana F+. Both are popular on Flickr and there are many great examples of what each camera is capable of… which seems to make deciding that much harder.
This is our first article with super-duper-bonus-futuristic-mechanised-twitter-interactive-elements. The article was more experimental to see if the twitter community could get involved directly..it seemed to work ok! We should be experimenting in future with more twitter-interaction goodness. A fellow Holgablog writer, Derek, mentioned something interesting about the increasing popularity of the Polaroid.
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Flickr Friday!
It’s that time again! TGIF!!
Each week, we will search the Holga Flickr group for photos added during that week and will post a few of our favorites, based on a theme.
Our theme for the week of March 3 – March 10, 2010 is Play.
You know the saying, “All work and no play…” Well, Friday [...]
Holga Wide and Tele Lens test shots
Here are a few test shots I took in my back yard a couple of weeks ago using the new Holga Wide and Tele lenses. For comparison, I stood in the same spot and took them all from the same angle (as best I could!).
I will keep trying out the lenses in some more different [...]
Review: Holga 120 WPC
I was originally going to start this review of the 120 WPC off quite technically – what the WPC stood for, what features it had, what the f-stop was. That kind of thing. Then I realised I’d been sucked into what I actually try to avoid in photography: geekspeak. So while some of the specifics [...]
