Don't forget Miroslav Tichư
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Don't forget Miroslav Tichư
https://fstoppers.com/natural-light/...de-camera-4848
Have you ever seen victor milin’s holga photographs, stunning!
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I like using a pre war Agfa sure shot and a strut camera whose door doesn’t want to open. They make nice photos, the sure shot allows 1/2 frame on B2 (120) has a yellow filter and the oof areas are really pleasing the strut camera I love to put something self coated in it, the sharp in the middle and soft like a petsval and it didn’t cost 2grand!
Coming over here nocking our beer mats, it's a disgrace.
Coming over here nicking our beer mats, it's a disgrace.
I must have an outlier Holga - it doesn't have any light leaks, anywhere. *shrug*
Does anyone NOT REMEMBER the internet early days of "Plungercam?" Some guy with a hasselblad. I wish the website was still up. My love of cheap cameras and lenses come from working in and studios. Everything was hyper real. Too real, too sharp. Then Zone VI started selling the Holgas. I was hooked back in 1988.
I remember one of my photographer friends back then, we were printing in a lab after work, and I said "hey great shots, is that a band?? Yah, I used my Holga in a club. Those guys are called "red hot chili peppers". Are they wearing....dick socks????" I wish she published those...
Even though I have fantastic lenses, I still have a love of the memory that images make. I guess seeing super tack sharp photos was a turnoff but it was for print production so we needed them sharp.
I still have my Spiratone Portragon. And a real Diana not a recent copy.
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I love my Omega 120 (the original, not Koni variety) and on outside appearance it looks like a crappy bizarre camera. Missing some paint, the integrated lens cap is broken off etc. When I got it the rangefinder didn't work among other things, but it was a very simple camera to repair and the lens has really nice bokeh for being "just a Tessar". It's an odd camera in terms of film advance though, it only gets 9 shots on 6x7 and the frame start out really close together and get farther apart towards the end of the roll. I have no idea if this was poor design or my camera.
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