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Win a Holga from Squarefrog!

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Squarefrog, who over the last year has put together what is far and away the most comprehensive Holga information site going, is having a one year anniversary contest. All you have to do to enter is fill out a very short questionnaire. The contest is open to everyone world-wide.

Prizes and stuff:

First prize – Lomography Holga 120CFN package
Second prize – Holgon Strobe Flash
Third prize – 5 rolls of Agfa RSX II 200 ISO slide film

All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning is to fill in the following form and click submit. The competition closes on Sunday October 7th 2007. Winners will be notified by email the following week. The information you submit is purely for my own interest, I would never pass on any of it to anyone!

I know Squarefrog online, and when he says he won’t give out your information, I believe him.

Enter here!

Holga focus test

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Holga focal distance test by Squarefrog

Squarefrog, who has put together what I believe to now be the definitive Holga resource site, has done a focus test to see if the generally cites distances for each focussing icon are correct.

He writes:

I decided to dispell some Holga focus myths and actually test the focus distance for the 3 people, and 7 people (group) settings. My camera was put on a tripod and the focus fixed in the middle of each setting. Then I moved the tripod back 2 ft after each picture. All pictures were taken using the cloudy setting with the aperture mod, so the aperture was about f/10…

See the results in a photo set on Flickr.