Re: Upper Midwest Pinhole Get-together.

Donna
To follow up on Guy's tale of a broken camera. The Holga. while not having
the cult status of the Diana, is much more robust, has less light leak
problems, and is a lot cheaper. Many people will modify a Holga lens with
steelwool, sandpaper, or clear fingernail polish to reduce the "sharpness"
and approximate the Diana lens effect. Others have removed the lens from a
dysfunctional Diana and mounted them on lens boards for their 4x5. FWIW - I
have a Diana and several clones, but end up shooting mostly with the Holgas.
I actually prefer the slightly sharper image of the Holga to the Diana image.
But others would choose the reverse order. K

Some more links:
<A HREF="http://www.toycamera.org/">Jonathan Winters</A>
<A HREF="http://www.frontiernet.net/~moe/Holga%20Pages/holgamain.html">The
Holga Modification Pages</A>
<A HREF="http://www.toycamera.com/index.html">The Great Lakes Region's source
for Plastic cam…</A>

Happy Trails,
Kurt Norlin
Received on Sat Mar 31 13:06:08 2001