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.
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 »
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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 [...]
