Forum: Photography


Subject: Digital like Holga?

Azha opened this issue on May 12, 2004 ยท 5 posts


DHolman posted Wed, 12 May 2004 at 7:56 PM

The problem I see with this is that even though the Holga is a testiment to cheap plastic crapiness, it still uses standard film. Which means that while the image may be fuzzy, blurry, light streaked and whatever it still retains a great deal of information on the negative. With a crappy digital camera, you get crappy optics but also, usually, very low resolution. This doesn't equate to the smooth, blurry artsy shots you can get from a Holga. It just looks like you took a picture with a webcam. I'd probably try to go for a reasonably inexpensive camera and either edit the photos in photoshop or place things across the lens. Like taking a UV filter and smearing a thin layer of vaseline across the outer surface. Might work. -=>Donald