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.
I’m really excited to start actually working with it.
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.
I’m really excited to start actually working with it.
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