{"id":1094,"date":"2011-05-06T07:39:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T15:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tristancrane.com\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2011-05-06T07:39:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T15:39:39","slug":"why-not-putting-a-holga-lens-on-a-dslr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/06\/why-not-putting-a-holga-lens-on-a-dslr\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not? Putting A Holga Lens On A DSLR"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months back I was catching up on boingboing.net and came upon this post<\/a> about putting a low-fi plastic camera ‘lens’ on a digital camera. I’ve used a Holga for years as a fun carry around medium format camera, although due to costs and lack of time to spend in the darkroom, digital has become my go-to solution. It has occurred to me to hack up a way to attach the Holga lens to my camera, but I’m not terribly handy with these kinds of things. I love the look of the soft focus and natural vignette you get, as well as the uncertain results. <\/p>\n

Recently, David and I took a hike around the Pt. Reyes area, and I brought along my trusty old Canon 20D loaded up with this Holga lens to play around with. The results are not displeasing! Not sure I’d ever use this on a gig, but it’s kind of fun to recharge my creative batteries by not thinking about f-stop or perfect focus.<\/p>\n

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One of the most photographed bridges in the world, apparently.<\/p>\n

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Ice plants along the coast, in bloom.<\/p>\n

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The hills are filled with naturalized Iris flowers. It’s astoundingly beautiful.<\/p>\n

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Holga lenses are available for both Canon and Nikon cameras, available for a mere $25 from HolgaDirect.<\/a> Pick one up! I’m having a lot of fun with mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few months back I was catching up on boingboing.net and came upon this post about putting a low-fi plastic camera ‘lens’ on a digital camera. I’ve used a Holga for years as a fun carry around medium format camera, although due to costs and lack of time to spend in the darkroom, digital has … Continue reading “Why Not? Putting A Holga Lens On A DSLR”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[282,283,284,285,286,287,288,289,10,290],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-san-francisco-2","tag-canon-camera-holga-lens","tag-holga","tag-holga-lens","tag-holga-lens-on-a-dslr","tag-holga-lens-on-canon","tag-plastic-camera","tag-plastic-lenses","tag-pt-reyes","tag-san-francisco","tag-toy-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristancrane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}