Category Archives: Holga

The Holga 120N medium format film camera is coming back

     From Freestyle Photographic Supplies – the Holga 120N medium format film camera is coming back:

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Holga‬ ‪‎film‬ ‪cameras‬ will no longer be produced

Freestyle Photographic Supplies (the US Holga distributor) published a statement that Holga‬ ‪‎film‬ ‪cameras‬ will no longer be produced:

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New plastic cameras: Polaroid Snap, digital Holga, Lomography Montenegro

This new Polaroid Snap instant digital camera can print 2×3″ pictures. There is a Kickstarter project for a new Holga digital camera. Lomography has a new instant Montenegro edition camera.

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Holga 135 PAN Panorama Camera with interchangeable lenses

The new 135 PAN panorama camera is the first Holga to feature interchangeable lenses. The camera takes regular 35mm film and creates 24x72mm size images. A 55mm f/8 and a 0.25mm diameter f/236 pinhole lenses are included:

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What else is new? (Ricoh CX6, Olympus LC-63A, Holga for iPhone, camera market share in Japan)

Ricoh announces the CX6 compact digital camera featuring high-speed autofocus as fast as 0.1 seconds and zoom assist monitor for easier telephoto photography: Tokyo, Japan, November 15, 2011—Ricoh Co., Ltd. (president and CEO: Shiro Kondo) today announced the development and release of the CX6, a new digital camera featuring a high magnification 10.7x (28-300 mm) […]

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And the winner of the Digital Holga Kitchen Sink Kit is…

The winner of the Digital Holga Kitchen Sink Kit from HolgaDirect is Michael Crawford. Congratulations! If you did not win, here is a discount code ‘HOLGARUMORS’ that will entitle you to 5% off any purchase over USD 100 (the Digital Holga Kitchen Sink Kit is USD 108.99). The code can be entered on checkout and will be […]

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Win a Digital Holga Kitchen Sink Kit

The giveaway is now closed. The winner will be announced shortly. HolgaDirect are celebrating the recent release of Holga lenses for a range of new mounts such as those for Pentax, Olympus PEN and Lumix G cameras (see press release).   What can I win?   In this giveaway you can win a Digital Holga […]

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New Holga lenses for digital cameras

Holga have recently expanded their range of lenses for Digital Photographers. These low cost photographic lenses enable Digital SLR photographers to mount a Holga Lens to their digital camera bodies for creative effect. The new lenses available are summarized in the following table: Model Code Camera Model Camera  Format Focal Length Holga  Fisheye Compatibility HL-O […]

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And the winner is…

The winner of the Digital Holga ultimate kit giveaway is Tom Langley. Congratulations! There were 655 entries for this giveaway. I selected the winner by running a SQL script that randomly picked one of the 655 comments (I also made sure there were no duplicate entries). Thanks to Holga Direct for sponsoring this giveaway.

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PhotoRumors Giveaway #5: Digital Holga ultimate kit for Nikon or Canon

What can I win? In this giveaway you can win a Digital Holga Ultimate Kit for Nikon or Canon DSLR from HolgaDirect. How do I win? The rules are simple: “Like” the HolgaDirect Facebook page “Like” the PhotoRumors Facebook page Leave a comment to this blog post OR Follow HolgaDirect on Twitter Follow PhotoRumors on […]

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Interesting links from the past week

What you may have missed  this week: Digital Holga prototype. Why not? Did you notice this? The uneventful announcement of the Fujifilm FinePix F300EXR point and shoot camera brought us a new Hybrid Auto Focus System – first in the world: “Enhanced with built-in phase detection pixels, Super CCD EXR is the first sensor in the […]

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