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I found that news via 43rumors. The new Holga lens for NEX is now available on [shoplink 7098 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. I don’t know how many of you are Holga fans, but I am one of them 🙂
Specifications
- Effective Focal Length: 60mm (120 Medium Format – apply crop ratio as per your SLR)
- Aperture: Fixed f/8
- Focus: Manual Zone Focus
- Lens Type: Plastic
- Dimensions: 38x57mm
- Weight: 38g
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i have it and it is totally crap
mind posting pictures?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joerodricks/sets/72157626735266651/
Sorry, I’m at work. That’s all for now.
I have it as well. It is crap. It’s 25mm and really f/11 in the center.
I took it apart and lubricated it as it was a very tight focus.
As one would expect, it’s very soft, has very low contrast and vignettes a bit on a NEX. There is, however, a hard stop at infinity that appears to be correct (despite it just being a screw that is the hard stop).
The picture is of a 25mm lens, not a 60mm.
Why would you want a 60mm F8 lens?! 500mm I can understand by 60mm? Very odd.
What good is a fixed f/8 lens? That’s ridiculous.
I’d assume it’s fixed because the optics are too poor to be usable at wider apertures.
I never did understand the allure of toy cameras, but I’d say fair enough, art is subjective, if the things weren’t so damn expensive. I’d imagine you could easily afford an off-brand 24mm f2.8 lens of good quality plus adaptor for the price this will sell for.
So damn expensive?
Maybe it’s just the euro, but this particular toy lens seems to cost less than 20 euros on eBay.
Good luck finding a lens+adaptor for that price. 🙂
Okay, that doesn’t sound so bad, but a lot of lomography stuff is well into three figures.
You can certainly get nice manual focus primes for less than 20 euros, but adapting them will cost about as much again.
The link to ebay is for 2 Holga 25mm f1.8
25/8 actually sounds good, anyone used this?
20 EUROs is seriously expensive 😀 – You can make similar for free with ‘junk’ lenses, that’s what I did: http://www.rharris-images.com/Projects/Homemade-Lens/13931095_MRgAN#724605487_NBkEA
I think you’ll find most lomographers lack your excellent post processing skills, Richard.
I think I’d rather shoot without a lens
I think people think Holga is “crap” didn’t get the point of Holga/Lomo. It’s about embracing imperfection.
Don’t think. Just Shoot.
You can do the same with any lens. The Sony 16mm for NEX is pretty poor wide open. Set it at the hyperfocal distance and just shoot that.
Um, that’s bull. If that’s the case, you’re much better served with a cellphone cam. I mean, you have one at all times, you can’t do much tweaking on it with the stock camera app, and if you want even more imperfection than the typical phone-cam images, you can always wipe your greasy fingers across the lens. 😛
I mean, THAT is much more in the spirit of don’t-think-just-shoot photography. When people have to go out of their way to acquire a Holga/Lomo, pay for aged film, double-expose, then send it to somebody to cross-process it… that is all about fetishizing error.
And don’t even get me started on Instagram.
One of your sources could brush up on basics. The picture shows a lens clearly engraved f=25mm, that is the focal length. It is a fixed parameter, it is always a 25mm focal length. On a NEX that’s “equivalent” to around 38mm. It may well have a big enough image circle to cover some of the several different formats that use 120 film, but it will always be a 25mm lens. The Angle of View will change with different formats, so we can say the “equivalent” FL will change, the actual FL does not.
Perhaps the reference to 60mm on 120 suggests the lens has a big enough image circle to cover 6 x 6 format, but a 25mm lens on that format would be an extreme superwide ( the Hasselblad SWC superwide had a 38mm lens). But anyway, good luck in finding a suitable MF camera to match the flange distance of a NEX!
Could be confusion over angles of view, however 25mm on APS has an equivalent horizontal AoV to a 75mm lens on 6×6 and 6×4.5.
If it’s just the Lomo effect you’re after, use a Photoshop action on a normal shot (works with Elements as well). You can fiddle around to get just the effect you’re after and nobody will be any the wiser.
I bought one just to play around with, and I can’t even get the lens to work. Any suggestions?
I can’t get it to work on my NEX-6 either! I know it’s cheap, but it should at least work. Can anyone explain how to use it?
You need to set your NEX to release without a lens, then the camera will work with no lens at all, or even hold a normal lens to the body backwards for some macro fun without adapters.