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Holga Cameras
21st November 2008
The Holga camera was designed by T. M. Lee, and first appeared in 1982.[4][5] At the time, 120 roll film in black-and-white was the most widely available film in mainland China. The Holga was intended to provide an inexpensive mass-market camera for working-class Chinese in order to record family portraits and events.[6][5] After the cameras began to be distributed in the West, some photographers took to using the Holga for its surrealistic, impressionistic scenes for landscape, still life, portrait, and especially, street photography. In this respect, the Holga became the successor to the Diana and other ‘toy’ cameras previously used in such work. Read about the cameras specifications here…
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