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I know you'll be pleasently surprised. Just get one and see what you come up with. In an age where digital is only getting sharper, bigger, better, and more expensive it's nice to get a HOLGA and not worry about anything but the picture. I have a few of these and each one takes pictures differently and that's the beauty of it.
Just don't trust your memories to it because every shot comes out looking different. Photog snobs love these, and I understand why.
You can't beat that. I love this camera, the nostalgia in the photos it produces, the vignetting and most of all, the square format - rebelling against all those digital wide-screen cameras.I still like using my digital camera but the Holga has reignited my passion for photography.And this camera costs less than 30 bucks.
If this your 2nd or 3rd film camera, and you are looking for a camera that takes lo-fidelity photos, then perhaps. I saw some photos of a carnival taken with a Holga, and it looked weird and spooky. ---"Intense vignetting" is because of the low quality plastic lens and it ruins all but artistic style photos. However, if you are looking for a film camera for general purpose photos, you will likely be serious disappointed with a Holga. It can ruin a picture you hoped to get. So it's got a plastic body, plastic lens, fixed focal length, fixed slow aperature, one defined shutter speed, fixed focus, fixed exposure.
---"Soft focus" is a cute phrase meaning pictures are a little blurry. definitely a good effect. Hmmm. Once in a long while, they can create an artistic looking photo. that sounds like a disposable camera except you can reload it.They market the poor quality as an advantage: "Beloved Holga effects: soft focus, double-exposures, streaming colors, intense vignetting and unpredictable light leaks." These are bad things.
---"Unpredicitable light leaks" are because the camera is soo poorly construction.
But you will be astonished that it will make such interesting photos and how creative you can be with it. The Holga is a medium format camera taking size 120 film. Just shoot and wind and be surprised by the results. Forget all you know about the technical side of photography when it come to the Holga. I has a single plastic lens and a plastic body with a shutter that is controlled by a single spring. It sounds like a piece of crap and it is.
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