Holga.D concept is the modernized toy camera of your joyful youth
By Ross Miller 
posted July 2nd 2010 5:10PM
posted July 2nd 2010 5:10PM
Viewfinder? Flash? All fluff -- but there's an accessory port if you need such superfluous nonsense. Actually, if you want a viewfinder, you can slot in the suggested piece of clear, crosshair-laden plastic... this isn't about accuracy, this is about pleasant surprises! As a bonus for lefties, the top panel can be rotated around to put the shutter button in a more southpaw-friendly position. Requires two AA batteries and a whole lot of imagination. Plenty of awesome, phantasmgorical renders via the source link.
God damn "concept" I want this.
@Jobee
Sexy. I'll take one...
@Jobee I agree! It would be especially awesome if it had a rangefinder style view finder, but that may to too excessive.
@Jobee
No flash kit?
@Jobee I've always wanted a Holga, but didn't want to spend the money on the negative holder for the enlarger. So this is damn cool.
It better be as inexpensive as the original Holgas ad well.
@donv69 yup, the price has to be right.
@Jobee Wow, an E-ink screen in a camera is actually a pretty awesome idea! Not only does it save power, but it also let's you see in direct sunlight. When the color screens come out, I could see these in many high-end digital cameras made. I guess there will be some people who want a more color accurate display (though I doubt crappy 2" lcd+sunlight would be accurate either), but I for one would definitely see this as positive so long as a backlight allows for night-viewing.
@Jobee
Gotta love Holga - truthfully my favorite film camera to use.
Somehow I will buy this when it comes out, with the one requirement that it has a decent high-res sensor (I'd like to see 14 MP). Holga images should be full of the unexpected - but this doesn't mean they should have the digital quality of a cheap camera.
The kin of camera's!
Those are a lot of shutter speeds for a holga.
CC is on the ready, awaiting release.
ohhh that's sexxxy.
I was hoping for a medium format size sensor, but alas, no dice.
@Chuuchdizzle Right, which would be even further missing the point.
I bought my Holga for $15. Back before they were trendy, it was a cool way to learn how to handle 120 film in the darkroom and make cool but gimmicky images.
Now I see film Holgas sold for $60+ at trendy shops... They are missing the point. "You're doing it wrong" would be the line.
A DX or larger sensor in a Holga? Last generation? So a $400 junk camera? You're doing it wrong.
A medium format sensor? I know you're kidding, but given that most such things cost five figures, that would also constitute doing it wrong.
This looks like a really neat concept camera. It might be worth $200 or so if they do it right. But it will never be te same as a Holga. Todays holga, for real? The camera in an LG keyboard phone.
While it's not really my tool of choice (no viewfinder, no nothing. I prefer my D80), the design is just cool. For that alone I wish I had one.
totally took the fun out of holga camera... holga is for the excitement of shooting with fixed settings and get random results. if i want digital effects, i use dslr or something like iphone, or even photoshop.
@Indefinite Implosion
At least you can hold it with both hands!
What's the point?
The Holga is a notoriously flawed camera. So flawed, that the flaws themselves become endearing. The plastic lenses, the light leaks, the limited shutter speeds- all things you DON'T want on a camera, but work for the Holga because, well, that's what you expect to get out of it.
So now we have this concept that promises what. . . crappy digital images in the way that the Holga produces crappy film images? The same thing that you could do in 20 seconds in Photoshop? The same thing that hundreds of apps for the iPhone and Android devices can do?
No thanks.
@FryingPan
especially in days $15 can buy a crappy .3MP camera...
@FryingPan I guess holga is an acquired taste, buy love it.
@num0 Theres more to quality than megapixels. If i'm taking crappy pictures, id want them to be decent resolution. Otherwise you wont be able to see the crappiness!!!!
@MrPointedHelix
That is kind of trippy when you think about it.
@Massive Poop Having a "digital Holga" just seems kind of pointless to me since these days, well, anything could be a "digital Holga."
I have a HOLGA 120S and I want this one too
i'm holding out for Helga
My first camera was a 110.
That's what I've wanted for years now. I came up empty mounting a PhaseOne back to a Holga and figured something like this would be a perfect new age replacement for my Diana.
I hope this makes it to the retail shelves.
At least a range finder would be nice.
That is gorgeous. Under £100 and I'll buy one.
previous gen fullframe? That's leaves us with the 5Doriginal sensor? Not likely.
So I googled "Holga Photos" and am very impressed by the flawed original results the cam produced. Some things can't be faked but if the digital counterpart exceeds pixel expectations, I'd get two for my lil sisters! ;-)~
wait... it's just a concept by some random industrial designer
I love it, but it would have to be cheap.
What's the point? The entire reason why you use a Holga camera these days is to take away all of the comforts of a modern camera. Plus if it has an ISO control, then its a digital camera. Why on earth would I want a holga digital camera? I could always just take a image with whatever digital camera I have lying around and add holga effects in photoshop.