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I bought a Holga 120 in the early 2000s. The camera was created in Hong Kong cca. 1982 and - even though it used 120 film - was made of cheap plastic, fragile spring shutter and barely any light seals so back then it was not super popular. Needles to say, the Lomo toy camera craze in the late nineties revived Holga's aesthetics of distortion, vignetting, blur, flare and light leaks, but it was in 2001 that David Burnett won the White House News Photographers Association’s Eyes of History contest with an image of Al Gore shot with his Holga that the camera gained its cult status on the toy camera piedestal next to its toy sibling Diana. It was the era before lensbabies. The Holga camera was made until 2015, but in the meantime somebody remembered that the plastic Holga lens can harmonically live on modern cameras for that ultimate toy camera feel. I got one in EF mount right after their release, but it could never really replicate the mood of my original plastic "ultimate analog" Holga camera on digital (the all plastic lens is - dare I say it - too good...). Today this Holga lens is a #1 bestseller on B&H website where it costs $17. Obviously I had to put the plastic fantastic lens on a Leica M. Industry's "best" with Industry's "worst". You be the judge of the IQ it produces.
