crawdiddy
qu'est-ce que c'est?
While Xmas shopping, I noticed Holgas are currently being sold at Urban Outfitters.
They had the "Holga Classic" (not sure what to call the beast) for $79 and also a 35mm fisheye model for $39, complete with genuine plastic fisheye lens.
I guess the manufacturer doesn't care if they're sold to "serious" photogs or sold as a novelty, right between the Tupac Shakur ashtrays and Hello Kitty T-shirts. A sale is a sale, right?
Not sure if the prices are good or bad. But I have a feeling more than a few of them will end up as yard sale fodder.
Now if they would only sell M8's....
They had the "Holga Classic" (not sure what to call the beast) for $79 and also a 35mm fisheye model for $39, complete with genuine plastic fisheye lens.
I guess the manufacturer doesn't care if they're sold to "serious" photogs or sold as a novelty, right between the Tupac Shakur ashtrays and Hello Kitty T-shirts. A sale is a sale, right?
Not sure if the prices are good or bad. But I have a feeling more than a few of them will end up as yard sale fodder.
Now if they would only sell M8's....
sienarot
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If they sold M8's, it'd probably be priced at $10,000 (and yuppies that shop there would still pay that much for it).
crawdiddy
qu'est-ce que c'est?
sienarot said:
Yes, I was just speculating about the downward price force once the market is flooded with M8's, and they end up in yard sales.
A fisheye Holga... simply genius.
dmr
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LOL! Urban Outfitters just opened up a shop in NoDo, which is the latest uber-trendy district in Omaha. I stopped in there not too long ago. I didn't see any Holgas in there, but again, I wasn't looking for them. 
Hey, at least SOMEBODY's selling film cameras!
Hey, at least SOMEBODY's selling film cameras!
crawdiddy
qu'est-ce que c'est?
dmr said:LOL! Urban Outfitters just opened up a shop in NoDo, which is the latest uber-trendy district in Omaha. I stopped in there not too long ago. I didn't see any Holgas in there, but again, I wasn't looking for them.
Hey, at least SOMEBODY's selling film cameras!
I can't disagree with you there. But the fact that they're selling them probably indicates that film cameras are so out of fashion, they're actually uber-trendy!
But uber-trendiness is famously short-lived.
boobbbers
Member
Thats how much it goes for on the lomography website. The thing is, I have a few friends that work at the urban down here and nobody reallys buys the damn cameras. They tend to get stolen more often then bought.
dmr
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crawdiddy said:
We've seen a few examples in recent years of retro camera as fashion accessories.
There was a tabloid shot a while back of one of the glitterati (forget who, I don't really follow them anyway) taking a photo with the lens cap on! The, uh, "photographer" obviously had no clue!
Then again I remember some catalog (Skymall, maybe?) selling some kind of a TLR as a retro curio.
I can just imagine that somebody is gonna start selling those junky look-like-SLR el-cheapo plastic cameras as accessories in the trendy boutiques. They will probably sell for more than they did when they were sold to suckers as real cameras!
Oh well ...