Have fun with lomography.
The HOLGA 120 Pan is a plastic medium format camera designed for roll film. The field size is an amazing 6x12 cm.
Specification:
Camera type: medium format, designed for roll film 120
field size: 6x12 cm (6 shots per film)
lens: 90mm (wide-angle)
focusing: manual
aperture f8 + f11 (cloudy and sunny)
shutter speed 1/100s + B (bulb - long exposure)
multiple exposure option, just don't move the film
large optical viewfinder
2x sleds for flash (for perfect illumination of the whole frame)
built-in spirit level
tripod thread
material: plastic
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ABOUT THE HOLGA BRAND:
Holga was originally launched in Hong Kong in 1981 as a low-cost 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 soft and delicate 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.
The Holga was produced until 2015, when a Chinese factory ceased production. However, demand for it didn't let up, so a few enthusiasts started a "Chinese mission" and since the summer of 2017, the Holga 120N has been on offer, made in China based on the original from the 1980s, but with a few technical conveniences essential for the current era.
"We have arranged a collaboration with a factory that has managed to acquire the old moulds for the castings. It's something of a miracle because they were thought to no longer exist. So the camera is available again," writes the American portal Freestly Photographic Supplies.
