Create a Digital Holga
Frenzy over at Instructalbes came up with a neat way to convert your SLR into a Holga.
A Holga is a very popular plastic toy camera that shoots 120 medium format films. It is known for its plastic looks and its amazing ability to provide inconsistent images.
the idea is very much similar to the Altoids pinhole we featured a few days ago. It uses the same mechanism - a body cup with attachment replaces the lens. Only this time Frenzy did not use a pinhole made from Altoids, he used a Holga lens.
The build process is fairly simple and mostly consists of taking the Holga apart and stealing its lens. Then the lens is mounted on the body cup.
Here is how the final camera with the Holga lens looks like looks like
And here is a sample shot
If you know if anything else cool that you can mount of a body cup, hit us in the comments.
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well besides blurry I can't
well besides blurry I can't really see how this gives the true holga effect?
Peephole
Not sure if discussed here previously, but mounting a peephole from a door onto a lensc ap and onto a lens (I use the Canon 50mm f18.8 MKII), but you get a similar plastic effect- such as this photo I took at a friend's wedding:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_kellaway/4731887299/
Construction
Paulie-K,
Could you possibly enlighten me as to how you actually constructed that lens? I picked up a door peephole and an additional lens cap. After staring at the pieces and pondering the build, I was unable to come up with anything I thought would yield adequate results.
It's a lot easier if you have
It's a lot easier if you have a lens cap where the spring that holds it in place is a plastic circle/band around the inner circumference, rather than ones where the bits you pinch are connected to a plastic bar that moves across the center of the lens cap (and use metal springs). That said, mine was made from one like this that I reversed engineered. Will try and remember to take a photo.
The peephole is held on just with superglue
Alternative project is to use an old lends from some spectacles (and make a bigger hole in the lens cap)
Easier way to do it....
Go to lomography.com!
They have the lens adapters for SLR and DSLR Canon and Nikon.
No need to destruct a perfectly great Holga camera to do what you are doing!!
looks like the camera on my
looks like the camera on my old cell phone? Why would someone want to do this?
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