Digital Holga?

photony texas said:
$100.00, no shutter the sensor scans, $100.00, and did I say no shutter?
About a 99 other things "Make it Special" but you must have an open/creative approach from the beginning, most do not and to them I say Flower pictures forever ;).
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Ok, I'm not trying to be difficult but no shutter is no big deal to me. The Holga is nice because the cheapness gives the photos a nice quality i.e. weird colors, little out of focus parts, vignetting, etc. This digital doesn't seem to have those nice qualities. It just seems like a cheap digital camera... and there are tons of those used on ebay that are a lot nicer in make. If this thing made images that were special and endearing, then I'd understand, but cheap digitals with no character are a dime a dozen.
 
jsrockit, To be serious for a second, I am not looking for the Holga look with this toy what it maybe can do is something called the Lartigue Effect after the French photographer who did Automobiles like no other. It is sort of a simulation of a focal plane shutter with a horizontal slit that passes across the sensor (a scan) because the exposure is delayed slightly (a moving slit) it can give a tilting warping look. If used effectively it can give the feeling of Velocity. I plan on playing around with the toy but if it is just a toy in the end I will have had some fun and maybe learned something. If I can get a cool car with elliptical wheels moving forward like Lartigue did I will have paid a bit of homage to the great French photographer.
 
photony texas said:
what it maybe can do is something called the Lartigue Effect after the French photographer who did Automobiles like no other. It is sort of a simulation of a focal plane shutter with a horizontal slit that passes across the sensor (a scan) because the exposure is delayed slightly (a moving slit) it can give a tilting warping look. If used effectively it can give the feeling of Velocity.
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See, now that is what I am talking about... that does make it different...if it works. Keep us informed.
 
cmedin said:
Mine's here. Will be posting a review on my blog tomorrow. Suffice it to say it's about what I expected and hoped for; small, quirky, interesting.
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Please do. I'd love to see all the quirks this camera has. I also hope that much like the Holga, each one has quirks of its own!
 
I just received mine. Don't buy it expecting a quality camera for cheap, but that has been said many times already. After five minutes outside, it all works and will fit into the cargo pants I usually wear outside. Instead of blur with camera shake I get the soon to be overdone motion melting curves. Interesting. Who is going to be the first to pull off the lens? Not me, not yet. I am more interested in option mods than in manipulating images, but that being said, I will shoot my moving car shot soon.
 
Faintandfuzzy said:
Please do. I'd love to see all the quirks this camera has. I also hope that much like the Holga, each one has quirks of its own!
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Posted:
http://storpotaten.blogspot.com/2009/11/digital-holga-part-one-of-something.html

Bunch of flaws, but has potential. :) I really like the B&W mode which it does quite well. Wish it vignetted more and had some poorer optics, but that can possibly be remedied...

Also, you can "stack" effects after you take the shot -- say image 1 is normal, you can apply the "negative" effect to it and get image 2, then apply the "sepia" effect to that and get image 3 which combines negative+sepia.
 
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cmedin said:
Posted:
http://storpotaten.blogspot.com/2009/11/digital-holga-part-one-of-something.html

Bunch of flaws, but has potential. :) I really like the B&W mode which it does quite well. Wish it vignetted more and had some poorer optics, but that can possibly be remedied...

Also, you can "stack" effects after you take the shot -- say image 1 is normal, you can apply the "negative" effect to it and get image 2, then apply the "sepia" effect to that and get image 3 which combines negative+sepia.
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Thanks for posting. Darn....I was hoping the optics were worse! :(
 
Just enough distortion to be different.

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I see it as a Shoot Now Inspect Later (SNIL) camera. Just started learning it.
 
Faintandfuzzy said:
Thanks for posting. Darn....I was hoping the optics were worse! :(
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Yeah, me too. The "lens element" on the front appears to just be for show or protective; putting something (gaffer tape, vaseline) on it doesn't cause any proper distortion/vignetting and rather it looks like you stuck something in front of the lens. Would have to get closer to the sensor to screw with the image "properly" I think.
 
Just got mine today. Dark outside, will play around tomorrow.
First impressions -
Much smaller than the product shots I've seen led me to believe.
All plastic, but comfortable to hold.
Looks cute and certainly unique for a digital compact.
Turning flash on takes forever (close to 10 secs).
Color settings (B&W) need to be reset after turning the camera off and on.
Major shutter lag (good for street shooting training - 2 second anticipation for the frame to happen! :)).
No focus confirmation (I don't even know how it focusses even).
Warning light that your lens is in Macro mode? Amazing surprise on such camera :) (seriously).
Truly a pointandshoot, which is great for such camera really.

Good news... looks like LTM mount will fit :) 50mm would be a supertelephoto. 12mm or 21mm, rare of the lens might be too long, depending how deep the sensor sits. I will play around with it for a few days and then attempt to unscrew the lens. Lucky tomorrow's weekend :)


One word summary of this camera: craptastic!
 
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