Holga HL-C lens for Canon EOS Mount

bdp23 wrote in post #11953858
Couple samples here, and in the other thread: https://photography-on-the.net …showthread.php?​p=11951114

the images look soft

As I pointed out in the other thread, a LOMO lens might be much better.
Holgas were essentially 'chinese farmer' cameras and initially prized by the hipsters cos they were so cheap and crappy, not for the dud optics and psychedelic colour shifts.

antifire wrote in post #11956025
the images look soft

True. But sometimes lenses can be too sharp that it makes shooting dull - this is really just me complaining! Hahahah! Having a lens like this can be fun. I just want to see what I can do with it. Heck I was even considering a peleng 8.

Without the characteristics of the rest of the camera - MF film, light leaks, double exposures etc, the lens alone on a digital body doesn't make much sense - images just look as though they were shot with a crap lens. They have none of the qualities that make (good) Holga/Lomo shots unique.

I say leave Holga lenses where they belong - on a Holga camera!!

Got one today. Not impressed. I guess I should have done more research but wow even from $25 it is a rip. I was hoping that it would look more holga-ey but nope.

All the holgas I've touched were 120 film type, so you'll get a different image feel from such a large negative.

I've never been a film shooter but I suppose (now owning one of these lenses) that the qualities that I was looking for comes from the expired film, light leaks, cheap dollar-store film, home processing, processing in caffenol, contact printing, enlargements with vintage thrift-store deceaced estate- clearing the attic out type of equipment.

I'm tempted now by the Diana lens: http://photojojo.com …ness/diana-lens-for-SLRs/ but I'll try find it cheaper out of asia. (no point paying postage from USA->Australia plus a 'cool tax' for buying from photojojo). My holga lens was $20 delivered to my door, ex hong kong.