First Shots with my Holga

I just got my first shots with the Holga today. Results were fairly decent. I like the square format of the photos but in general the photos look like they could have been taken by any camera. I guess thats a good thing since this camera did cost me only $20. I was hoping to see more weird effects like the picture above if you notice the bottom left area of the picture you can see it blur a bit. Now that I know the camera is working I am going to load it up with some cheap color medium format film and take some more shots. If you would like to see 3 more photos click on more.


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  1. Kuwaiti Mal Awal says:

    nice effects !

  2. Yazeed says:

    i like the second one the most
    looks like it could be used in an arabian heritage book :P

  3. I the Beholder says:

    wow, they really look old .. I like them .. great work :)

  4. Ali says:

    okay………….what the point !!!!!

  5. Mark says:

    I think the color pictures will come out better plus will cost me ALOT less to develop then back and white.

  6. sid says:

    i have a holga too..i shot some transparency film and cross processed it..very funky results..my problem is when i remove the mask to make it shoot a square frame..i am not able to avoid the frames overlapping..so i put in the mask and shoot a 6×4.5 frame..how did you do it?

  7. Mark says:

    sid you must have the older Holga 120S. The newer Holga 120N comes with the 6x6cm mask installed as default plus some other new features like bulb mode and 2 apreture settings.


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