I have always considered the Holga to be the ‘mother of all toy cameras’. When they launched the Holga 120WPC (Wide Pinhole Camera), I thought it was a great new design and of course i bought it for some super wide pinhole fun. Now … perhaps as a result of the big Blackbird, Fly camera craze … those guys in the factory seemed to have pieced something new … a Holga TLR! At first I was pretty excited when I read about it … until I saw photos of the camera …
Gosh! I personally think this is an awful design. They seemed to have taken the original Holga body, hacked off the viewfinder and placed a waist-level viewfinder on it. Looks bulky (as if the original Holga is not bulky enough) and pretty ugly. For those who love using waist-level viewfinders might find it useful though.
The other thing I noticed is this image above which seems to be ripped off from the Blackbird, Fly manual and then the Holga TLR photoshopped in. Hahaha.
Will I buy it? Nah. I’d rather stick with the sexier and prettier Blackbird, Fly.
* All images above were leeched from the Holga-Magic website.
For those who are interested … the camera is available here.
hehe.. yeh.. i dun really like it.. but should we bring it in? hmmm
@ymmij : There should be some people who like it but don’t count on me to place an order from you for this 😛
you just forgot to mention that a holga is intended to be used with 120 film, whilst the bb,f is made to be used with 135 film and this already enough reason for both to co-exist!
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@andre : Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, the Holga TLR of course can do 120 film while the BBF is meant for 35mm ones. If only the Holga TLR can be made to look and feel like a normal TLR instead of the ‘plug in a viewfinder part and make it look like one’ method. Haha. I’ll stick to my other plastic TLR for 120 … like the Bioflex (http://www.ndroo.com/blog/?p=705)
eeeee … so ugly!!!
i think lomography’s Lubitel is way better than this.
@moe : That’s for sure. Hahaha! The Lubitel is a totally different ‘animal’.
I got one of these – yep she sure is ugerly! However the viewfinder is more use than on a standard Holga and it certainly attracts comments.
perrins57 : Hahaha! Yeah I’m sure it attracts lots of attention when you are out shooting. 😀
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