Linn-Benton Community College is seeking submissions for Light Box IV, a postal art show of toy camera, pinhole, and zone plate photography. Due: February 17, 2007 Show Dates: February 20 to April 6, 2007 Format: Two postcards with a brief statement of why the photographer uses that method of photography as a means of personal [...]

Instructions have just been posted for the following Holga modifications: PinHolga, how to convert a Holga into a pinhole camera Cable release Flocking to cut down on internal reflections Paul Williamson‘s Squarefrog Holga site is quickly becoming the one-stop shop for Holga information, check it out!

Check out BURNBLUE‘s long exposure Holga mod, no modification required! In the "why the hell didn’t I think of that??" class of genius. See also: Sean Rohde‘s Homemade underwater Holga enclosure

Check out Adam Scott‘s 6×8 Holga modification instructions! Sweet! More of Scott’s 6×8 Holga photos in this set on Flickr.

So sayeth the show’s Web site, toypolloy.com: It is used as a derogatory phrase meaning "the common people." Those most artists wish to separate from. Toy Polloy is that separation… Photographically speaking. Toy Polloy use cheap, common toy cameras, yet their results can be rich and uncommon. Click here to view the 30 artists featured [...]

Diana cameras (the original Holgas) can be really expensive. The results are awesome (and have personalties quite different from Holgas), but for someone who actually wants to make pictures rather than collect cameras, a hunnert bux or more for a piece of 40 year old plastic is simply bullshit. Fortunately, there are a ton of [...]

Flickr member bricolage.108 hacked a 35mm trashcam into a double-sided lens/pinhole monster. He writes: If using a normal film roll this camera takes redscaled ["redscale" is where you shoot the film backwards, so the light gets filtered through the antihalation layers before hitting the emulsion and turns the image red/orange or yellow, depending on the [...]

Bosse Blomqvist pulled the lens off a Lex35 and put it on a 4×5 camera with a medium format 9x12cm back. Above is the somewhat surprising result: the coverage is far bigger than I’d have expected! Bosse writes: Had to check out how the magnificient Lex 35 would behave as a large format camera, or [...]

The Call for Entries category has been mighty thin due to my refusal to post any that require entry fees, but this one looks decent: Holga, no entry fee, electronic submission. It’s an electronic show that reqires a print donation if your work is accepted. ATTENTION fine art photographers working with HOLGA cameras! In December [...]

The Lex35/Vivitar T100 is a crappy, hackable, cheap, plastic camera. Above is Eben Ostby‘s result from flipping and spacing the lens. He writes: I don’t have pictures to show what I did, but if you look at my photostream, you’ll see a few "addled" photos that were done with a Lex 35 with a flipped [...]