I was pretty well taken care of for Father’s Day. Among the
gifts I received was a Holga pinhole camera, a lens adapter to allow me to use
a Carl Zeiss 50/1.8 lens on any of my Pentax K-mount cameras, a Holga lens and
a Holga pinhole lens, both of them for Pentax K-mount.
I’ve wanted another pinhole camera for a while. The one I
made from a kit my son gave me two years ago for Worldwide Pinhole Photography
Day is great but it’s made from cardboard and won’t last forever. Besides the
Holga pinhole camera shoots 120 roll film instead of 35mm film so the quality
of the images should be dramatically better.
The first thing I did after opening my gifts was mount the
Zeiss lens on one of my manual cameras and load it and the Holga pinhole camera
with film and head out for a photo adventure. My goal of course was to test the
pinhole camera and see if the settings I selected will yield the correct
exposures and also check to see whether the lens adapter worked properly. With all
that done, I sent the film off to be processed and moved onto the next
adventure.
This past weekend I decided to try out the Holga lens on my
Pentax K-01 and document the latest alien invasion of my back yard. As you can
see from the image above it works quite well! Here’s another…
As far as I can tell these digital images looks just like they
came from a real Holga camera with the same soft dreamy look and vignette
effect in the corners and periphery. Of course I can also put this lens on any
of my Pentax K-mount 35mm film cameras too. That will no doubt be the object of
a future photo adventure. Stay tuned.
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