As I was browsing through the DPGuru Flickr pool looking for a photo of the day, I came across the image to the right. I put it on my "further consideration" list, scanned down quickly to see whither it had embedded EXIF, said to myself "oh, that's nice, he's using a Canon Holga," and moved on. You can tell I hadn't had my coffee yet; it took about 45 seconds before I sat straight up in my chair, said "waiddaminute, an EOS what?!?" and clicked back.It turns out Joachim Guanzon had the bright idea to mount a Holga lens on his 20D. He even put the directions online so the rest of can do the same. The Holga lens gets destroyed in the process, but it's probably $19.99 well spent. The real stroke of genius, as far as I'm concerned, was using a white film canister for the lens tube so you get that authentic Holga light light bleed.
1. thanks for sharing such a killer hack. great find!
Posted at 9:22PM on May 6th 2006 by craigv