Description
The Holga 193120 120 Wide Angle Pinhole Camera gives the photographer an inexpensive way to crank out some truly interesting effects. With no lens, this camera can create soft focus images that take on a dreamlike appearance. The pinhole on the front does everything for you. Through the use of long exposures, the shooter can make images with both foreground and background sharp. In addition, colors will be richer.
Desired by art photographers the world over, the Holga Pinhole is reminiscent of the Diana camera of the 1960s and 70s. The characteristic pinhole vignetting focuses the viewer's eye and adds to visual impact. This camera uses 120 roll film for 16 6x4.5cm frames per roll, and comes with masks for both 6 x 7cm and 6 x 9cm images. It is the perfect pinhole camera for classroom instructions, personal image-making, and fine art photos.
Features
• No lens - Offers maximum depth of field through extremely long exposures
• No focusing required
• Nearly unlimited depth-of-field renders both close & distant objects in relative focus
• Moving subjects registered as 'blurs' or ghost images
• The format arrow on the back of the camera easily slides between 12 and 16 exposures
• Mostly plastic, including the lens; extremely small and compact one-piece plastic molded body
Item Includes
• Holga 193120 120 Wide Angle Pinhole Camera
• 6 x 7cm and 6 x 9cm Masks
• 1-Year Manufacturer's Limited Warranty
Reviews
Very good images!, October 6, 2009
By Michael A. Duvernois (Minneapolis, MN United States)
This review is from: Holga 120WPC Wide Angle Pin Hole 120mm Film Medium Format Camera (Electronics)
Tripod and shutter release cables are required. The build quality of mine was better than I had expected. (Holga is best known for light leaks and bad plastics.) I've shot in 6x12 which does show a fair amount of light dropoff, but one can crop after scanning. Personally I've been shooting B&W (Ilford & Kodak Tri-X), developing it in the basement, and scanning it. The camera does come with a 6x9 mask as well. There would be less dropoff in that, more frames per roll too, but you wouldn't have the impressive extent of the image. I've loaded 35mm film into this as well, and exposed it over the sprockets. That's really wide!
