page_title: Holga
section_title: Modifications and variants
hierarchical_section_title: Holga / Modifications and variants
caption_attribution_description: English: Holga Camera propped with tape in order to prevent light leaks Français&#160;: Appareil photo Holga avec le ruban adhèsif pour (essayer d')empêcher les fuites de lumière
context_page_description: The Holga is a medium format 120 film camera, made in Hong Kong, known for its low-fidelity aesthetic.
  The Holga's low-cost construction and simple meniscus lens often yields pictures that display vignetting, blur, light leaks, and other distortions. The camera's limitations have brought it a cult following among some photographers, and Holga photos have won awards and competitions in art and news photography. As of November 2015, production of this camera has ceased.
context_section_description: Holga cameras are often modified:
  A Holga's interior can be "flocked"—coated with matte black paint—in order to limit the effect of light bouncing off the plastic interior from light leaks.
  The red window on the camera back can be blocked by an improvised cover to eliminate light leaks when using panchromatic films
  The Holga's aperture switch can be modified as needed to provide a larger ('cloudy') or smaller ('sunny') aperture.
  The lens, and sometimes the entire shutter assembly, can be replaced with a pinhole (the "Pinholga").
  The plastic lens can be replaced with a glass version (the "Woca") or can be completely removed.
  Newer models of the camera come with multiple optional frame inserts (4.5 × 6 cm and 6 × 6 cm). Shooting without an insert can lead to problems keeping the 120 size film flat against the film plane.
  Inserting cardboard or foam or felt padding under or behind the film spool to provide proper film tensioning
  The Holga TIM camera has two fixed focus plastic lenses which work simultaneously, allowing for the capture of 3D images.
  Some modifications permit the use of other film formats:
  Holga cameras may be fitted with a Polaroid back, allowing use of Polaroid 80 series instant film, or with newer models, 100 series film (but the image is not centered).  This modification, sometimes termed a "Holgaroid" or "Polga", renders the viewfinder unusable, but allows for instant Holga prints.
  By sandwiching a normal 35 mm roll of film into the Holga's 120 spool, "sprocket hole" exposures may be taken that expose the entire surface of 135 film.
  Cameras such as the Hasselblad have been modified to make use of a Holga lens.
  Holga plastic lenses have also been adapted to the Canon EOS, the Nikon f-mount, Pentax, Sony, Olympus and Minolta.  An f-mount, 'melted' plastic Holga lens has been used on a digital f-mount camera while the EOS Holga has been mounted to the latest Canon DSLRs. Adapted lenses are also commercially available.
caption: 120S prepared with tape in order to prevent too many light leaks
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