Holga 120S

Manufactured in China beginning about 1998 (many believe at the direction of Polaroid, but that cannot be confirmed). It is a “Diana Type” camera—an inexpensive eye-level camera for 120 film. Cheap doesn’t begin to describe this camera! It is thrown together, has a plastic lens that is not very good—even for plastic lenses!—and is just a mass produced item. But, people love the soft images they get from the lens and there are entire websites dedicated to it and modifications of it. It has a 60mm f/8 “optical lens” (I guess they say that so you don’t think it’s a pinhole camera!) and a single shutter speed of about 1/100 sec. The “S” model has a hot shoe and you can see that I have the matching flash unit! It will shoot 16 4.5x6cm images or 12 6x6cm images on a roll of 120 film, depending on the mask in the back of the camera (and don’t forget to set the hole on the back to the correct position to read the correct numbers!).

 

See also: www.argonauta.com/html/holga_cameras.htm, et. al. (just Google it!)

 

 

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