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Your cart is empty.This Holga Lens for Nikon DSLR Camera puts that iconic low-fi Holga twist into your super-high-tech digital images. Use this 60mm lens with or without other Holga lenses and filters for truly out-of-this-world results.
Savvy D
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2023
I have had a blast using an intentionally lo-fi lens. It really lays bare what makes a great photo, as opposed to relying on crystal-clear optics. You will have to back up, and then back up some more, and then just a little bit more to get things in the frame - so watch your step. Sure, you can get vignetting as a filter in photoshop, but that's for the weak!! You will learn to crank up your ISO, lower your shutter speed, and abandon your expectations of perfection - all for the incredibly low, low price of under $20!
Customer
Reviewed in India on October 11, 2023
Anybody who likes photography would like and should have this lens. It gives a great dreamy filmy look to the photos without wasting time on post processing. And it is very easy to carry due to it's small and light size. Very simple to use too. The lens shell and optics are both plastic.
John Jorgensen
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2022
So obviously the picture quality this lens produces is pretty terrible, but that's the point. It produces charmingly bad pictures. It has its limitations: I find that the fixed focal length of 60 mm is particularly tough when I have to keep backing up and backing up to get something interesting in frame. Focusing is an inexact science at best, and a few shots have been ruined when I uploaded them and realized I'd gotten it wrong, but careful chimping minimizes this loss. Shooting in manual isn't very daunting on a lens with a fixed aperture, it's essentially no different from shooting in S mode. Upping the ISO can get dicey from a noise reduction standpoint, but if you're choosing appropriately lit subjects you don't need to raise it that high, and the pictures have a granular quality that makes noise less of a problem anyway.All these limitations are well known, and to fans of lomography, they're not bugs, they're features. But one thing you may not expect (though maybe you will, as other reviewers have mentioned it), and that is not at all necessary to replicating the Holga experience, is how loosely the lens fits the camera body.It's supposed to have been designed specifically with the Nikon F Mount in mind. The Nikon F Mount is standard across dozens of camera bodies, and countless third party lenses fit it snugly. Why can't this do the same? Yes, it's made entirely of plastic; but so are my body caps, and those fit as snugly as the lenses. It would not have been hard to make this lens fit correctly. In fact I can't see any way in which it would have been any easier to make the loose fit that they did.The fit is not so loose that I'm worried about the lens falling out or anything (though I might be if it weren't so extremely lightweight) but it definitely jiggles disconcertingly. The effect is magnified when I adjust the focus ring (which by the way is a good bit tighter than I would like it to be; this problem is compounded by the fact that putting any elbow grease into adjusting it further jostles the lens in the body).Every time I've used this lens in the field, the pictures I've uploaded have had indistinct blobs in a pattern that is duplicated exactly across multiple pictures. You know what that means: schmutz on the image sensor. Sometimes it can be corrected in editing, sometimes not. It always fills me with anxiety that I won't be able to get the image sensor clean again afterward. I've always been able to so far, but the effect continues to be that I'm reluctant to use this lens, for all its charms. And even a $15 lens is hideously overpriced if I never want to use it.
Jesse S.
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2021
I've giving this a 4 start review, since the order was fulfill on time and without any problems, but the truth is, if you plan on using this lens as a base for hacking something else together, I'm sure it's great for that, but if you are in the market for a cheap toy lens, you might be better off if you save a few more bucks.If you just need to have a toy lens to tinker around with, it's small, cheap and doesn't take up much space. It serves that purpose, but the focus does almost nothing perceptible. The aperture is incredibly small --virtually a pin hole lens, and unless you hack it and remove the sieve filter, you aren't going to get the true f/8 as advertised, so be prepared for difficulty in low light. The effects are going to get you some nice chromatic aberrations and a vintage toy camera feel, but you aren't going to get anything beyond that.It is cheap, the image quality is soft and it is very easy to use. It's a cute, low dollar, one-trick pony in that regard and honestly, I can't knock it for what it is, but be prepared to be a little underwhelmed. If you need your weirdness fix for inspiration, I'd suggest the low dollar Lensbabies, like the Spark or Composer, since they are a bit more modular or tinkering around with weird polarizers and filters.All of that said, the Holga is exactly what it is: Cheap and different.
S_J
Reviewed in India on June 7, 2018
Dont expect too much from this lens. its a toy lens and the results give you a retro feel
Jeff R
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2017
I really miss using my old Holga camera now that film is crazy expensive/inconvenient to shoot. This is the best replication of the Holga experience - the feel is the same. Still a 60mm f/13 lens, still manual focus with pictures of people and mountains, still clear in the center and darker/blurry on the outside. Won't meter right on a Nikon DSLR, so it still helps if you know how to match your ISO/so forth to light conditions. Price is cheap, so I'd recommend it if you miss your Holga at all.That said, there are some definite differences. The biggest is that the same lens acts differently on an APS-C sized sensor rather than medium format film. It was the perfect angle before, a sort of wide normal lens, but on a smaller sensor the lens is much narrower and less convenient, more like a portrait lens. Also, while the far corners of the picture are dark and blurry and it all looks Holga-ish, if you shoot in square format pretty much everything is fairly clear and doesn't really look Holga-ish. I think the ideal for this camera, or at least the best way to replicate the original Holga, would be to shoot a full-frame camera, square format. I don't have a full-frame camera so that's just a guess. Digital sensors don't act the same way as film with light drop-off, so pictures have a distinct effect but it's just not quite the same.I used this lens on a Nikon 3300. It works fine, but you have to have it in Manual mode, and it won't really meter.
M.C
Reviewed in France on November 21, 2015
Merci, conforme à la description et c'est un super effet old school pour pas cher ! Sa fixation n'est pas parfaite sur le boitier photo par contre
Zubin Mehta
Reviewed in India on September 13, 2013
The lens only works on manual mode. Needs a lot of light and on my D3100 the flash does not work when i connect this lens. I have only used it 2 times and clicked only 1 proper image.
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