To add to the Instax party, Lomography.com have launched an Instax Back for the LC-A+ (and the original LC-A). Those of you with the similar Diana+ back will know how refreshing a change of film can be, and – goshdarnit – just how cute the Instax results are.
The time has come to put these two plastic cameras both side by side and to do the review I was once looking for myself, but never found on the net. I will try to be technical and I will comment on flaws or features that I have noted in my personal experience.
A lot of people go on about Diana+ cameras as the definitive of this type of lo-fi photography. The problem is, a lot of of it is hype. The guys that created this lomography resurgence were extremely shrewd marketing students who back in the 90’s saw there was a market for the plastic lensed cameras »
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Flickr Friday
This is a new series that we are starting, and hope that it will continue weekly.
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 first theme for the week of February 10 – 17, 2010 is The [...]
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 [...]
