HOLGA 60mm f/8.0 HL-N for Nikon

Enjoy lomo fun with your digital or analogue camera.

Holga HL is a classic lens with plastic lens for DSLR/SLR cameras.

The HOLGA 60mm f/8.0 HL-C lens for Nikon makes every shot an artistic experience. You'll get fine soft focus, dreamy atmosphere, retro vignetting (darkening of the image in the corners), sometimes shifted color gamut, or random light leaks. Simply, what you shoot is original.

Photography with Holga lenses is not about sharpness and faithful colour rendition. Quite the opposite. The result is soft, dreamy photographs reminiscent of the art of the Impressionists.

Specification:

Lens Type.

Lens focal length: 60mm (approx. 90mm for APS-C)

Luminosity: f/8

Autofocus (AF): No

Auto/Manual focus AF/MF: Manual focus

Alignment using 70cm, 2m, 6m and 10m to infinity symbols

Material: plastic

ABOUT HOLGE

The iconic plastic camera for lomography enthusiasts who can't get enough of 35mm film and want to shoot professional medium format (120 roll film).

The Holga was originally launched in Hong Kong in 1981 as a cheap variant of medium format cameras aimed at the masses.

Shortly after sales expanded outside of China these simple Bakelite cameras became an underground art phenomenon.

The images produced by Holga have a dreamlike atmosphere, the design of the simple and imperfect lens is responsible for the delicate and soft images, the sometimes shifted color gamut, random light leaks and vignetting (darkening of the image in the corners), which evokes a retro-image.

The biggest surprise for the Chinese factory was the interest of the world's professional photographers, who couldn't get enough of its ability to turn an ordinary shot into a surreal mood piece or impressionistic moment. Holga is used in landscape photography, portraiture, still life and especially in street photography and snapshots of everyday life.

Perhaps the most famous Holga enthusiast is the American photojournalist David Burnett, winner of the 1980 Press Photo of the Year award. He claims that Holga allowed him to free himself from precision and the desire for technical perfection "and especially from the desire to be in control".

"Holga forced me to simplify, slow down and concentrate on what's really important in photography," Burnett told the media. In 2001, he won the top prize from the White House Photographers Association for his shot of politician Al Gore, whom he photographed with Holga during his 2000 presidential campaign.