I Want My Holga

And I hope I can get my hands on one by the end of the year. I find the toy camera interesting because of its simplicity and the amazing results of the shots. I'm planing to buy a Holga 120N camera. I still don't have any idea where to purchase it though. Photography has been my secret passion over the past years and I really want to expand my knowledge by trying different ways to capture stills. I've heard of lomographic cameras before from former colleagues and found it interesting. Then I forgot about it, until I saw a segment on Us Girls last Sunday about the different toy cameras available in the local market. The segment mentioned that the camera is really cheap, around php2500 to php3500, but the image quality and that element of surprise when you finally get your photo processed are some of the factors that keeps on pulling me to it. 

I'm looking forward to be able to take images like these ones I found in a lomo enthusiasts' blog.

For those of you who doesn't have any idea what a Holga camera is, here's a short description from wikipedia:

Holga is an inexpensive, medium format 120 film toy camera, originating in Hong Kong in 1982, that later came to be appreciated for its low-fidelity aesthetic. The Holga's cheap construction and simple meniscus lens often yields pictures that display vignetting, blur, light leaks, and other distortions. Ironically, the camera's quality problems became a virtue among some photographers, with Holga photos winning awards and competitions in art and news photography. The camera was originally intended to provide an inexpensive mass-market camera for working-class Chinese in order to record family portraits and events.

photos by marge, melay and dontblink