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Holga Fishing

2/4/2016

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This week I took my new Holga fisheye lens for a dip (pun intended).  My preliminary opinion is that I love it!  It is so much fun.  A while ago I had bought the smaller plastic fisheye (FEL 120) lens with the viewer, and I was disappointed.  I had tried it only once and I had forgotten about how poorly it produced images.  This past summer I tried it again with the same disappointing results.

The images that it produced were literally small circles with maybe 5% of the subject showing.  I had not seen any images like these on-line so as I re-stored this lens I thought maybe this was a rare batch or a unique Holga effect.  As I unwrapped and attached my new Holga glass fisheye lens, and attached the fisheye viewer (sold separately) I didn’t know what to expect.
 
It is a heavy lens on the plastic camera so after I loaded it I was careful to make sure that it was secure before, and after every image, and I was careful how I transported it from one location to the next on the tripod.  In spite of all the care I will admit that I took my first three pictures with the lens cap on – oopse.

I’m really pleased with the glass fisheye lens.  It works really well with the viewer, and I learned that you can move in really close.  I frame with the camera so when I developed my test roll I found that I could have moved in even closer to my subjects in spite of what the viewer displayed.
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I’m really excited to start actually working with it.

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