I got my Holga 120N as something fun to take on a trip to Cambodia and it has been a camera that I now have used more than just that trip. As mentioned above, this did not take, so he tried to sell into other markets, including Europe and the United States. Simply purchase a roll of 35mm film and load it in, take your photos, rewind and have the film roll developed.

But what may be the Holga’s greatest flaw is that its unique look has, in 2017, become anything but unique.While I have used reliable films like, Kodak T-Max 100, I have also run through some expired Portra 160 VC, which gave some interesting results.

That apparent contradiction comes from the fact that its features are so basic that it takes more of an understanding of how a camera works to make good photographs than it does with a camera you can use on auto mode. Due to the basic nature of the camera the corners of your photographs will have black or darkened corners, this is intentional with this model. The Holga 120N was first introduced around 2003 as an upgrade on the 120S, which was the original Holga from way back when it all began. However, once the camera went into production, vignetting (darkening of the corners of the finished photograph) occurred when the camera was modified to a 6×6 format. First iteration – before I realized there was a switch that changed the length of the shutter speed.Holgas are a brand of ‘toy’ camera first made in Hong Kong in the 1980s, similar to the Diana cameras that were really popular a few years back (although those originally came out in the 1960s).