Much better quality images than you'd normally expect from a Holga, but still having some of that plastic lens naivety that give the Holga it's charm. (If the damned things hadn't gotten so expensive I'd be inspired to try this myself).
Another example of crap QC. :-P The MZ-S and LX both have aperture simulators. To get proper exposure recommendations with their meters you'd need to find a way to get the lens cap to hold the simulator in the "wide open" position. What I'd do is put the Holga lens on a M42 lens cap and use a M42/K mount adapter, giving you a "quality" metal lens mount... Mark Cassino wrote: > I'm a big fan of Holgas and other toy cameras. The other day I pulled a > lens off a Holga, drilled a hole in a Pentax K body cap, and glued the > lens into place. As a result, my K mount bodies are now focus-free and > have that nice Holga-ish look that comes from using a single element > plastic lens. > > A couple of samples: > > http://www.markcassino.com/galleries/stream/2007/070113/IMGP0006.htm > > http://www.markcassino.com/galleries/stream/2007/070113/IMGP0015.htm > > And a shot of the modified camera: > > http://markcassino.com/b2evolution/media/IMGP2613.jpg > > Yeah - I should of been more careful to get the writing on the lens to > line up right. > > It's not as fun as a real Holga - the APS sensor really is sitting on > the relatively sharp 'sweet spot' of the lens. The 60mm lens is a short > telephoto on the *ist-D or K10D, vs being a wide angle on the medium > format body. I also had to add the vignetting in photoshop. But now I > can indulge my Holga impulses whenever... > > Oddly enough - the *ist-D and K10D seem to meter fine with the Holga > lens (I should mention that the aperture is part of the lens assembly.) > But my Mz-S for some reason can't handle it - it reports an exposure > that about 15 stops off. Same with the LX - but the real time metering > on the LX works correctly (the film camera report an expose that is way > too long.) > > - MCC > > -- -- The more I know of men, the more I like my dog. -- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
