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About The Holga

The Holga is an inexpensive, medium format 120 film toy camera, made in China, appreciated for its low-fidelity (lo-fi) aesthetic.

The Holga's cheap construction and simple meniscus lens often yields pictures that display vignetting, blur, light leaks, and other distortions.

The camera's quality problems have become a virtue among some photographers, with Holga photos winning awards and competitions in art and news photography.

The Holga camera was designed by T. M. Lee, and first appeared in 1982 in Hong Kong. At the time, 120 rollfilm in black-and-white was the most widely available film in mainland China.

The Holga was intended to provide an inexpensive mass-market camera for working-class Chinese in order to record family portraits and events.

After the cameras began to be distributed in the West, some photographers took to using the Holga for its surrealistic, impressionistic scenes for landscape, still life, portrait, and especially, street photography.

About This site

http://goholga.com is a blog dedicated to providing tutorials and hacking information for the Holga camera. A lot of people find it hard to get to grips with the camera, and this site intends to aid those that do.

It will also hopefully inspire you to pick up your camera and go and shoot!

About The Author

Hi there, I'm Durkin and I write all the content here. Thank god all that hacking has gone away now...we are here for keeps!

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