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Hi guy,

While browse around article on photograghic , i saw a word Holga or sometime Lomo , they said it is a toy camera which create funny and cute picture out from there as well.

Can anyone guide me on this ? i plan to get one but i wonder where can i get it from malaysia

Have you considered getting a Lensbaby? A few places in Msia sell them...

Voldenuit wrote:

Have you considered getting a Lensbaby? A few places in Msia sell them...

you mean a kind of lense ? i just browse out from the URL...can it fix into my Canon 350D ?

mghong wrote:

you mean a kind of lense ? i just browse out from the URL...can it fix into my Canon 350D ?

Yes, they're cheap "creative" lenses that are made in a variety of camera mounts.

You can get some interesting effects with them.

Voldenuit wrote:

mghong wrote:

you mean a kind of lense ? i just browse out from the URL...can it fix into my Canon 350D ?

Yes, they're cheap "creative" lenses that are made in a variety of camera mounts.

You can get some interesting effects with them.

HI Voldenuit ,

Mind to share your experience ? as i still blur on this kind of lense..

mghong wrote:

HI Voldenuit ,

Mind to share your experience ? as i still blur on this kind of lense..

I haven't used them, I just know of people that do. I tend to shoot 'journalistic' style instead of artsy, so I haven't played around much with the weird and wonderful add-ons that lensbaby makes. But some of their stuff does look very interesting.

My wife has a lens baby and really likes it. She shoots better photos on accident than I do on purpose

Hance wrote:

My wife has a lens baby and really likes it. She shoots better photos on accident than I do on purpose

Mind to share some "nice" photo of it... i hear from my friend saiding that this lensebaby is even expensive then original Canon lense , is it true ?

I am on the road working right now and wont be home for a few more days so I have no way to post any of the photos she has taken with it. Price wise they are fairly cheap.

Hance wrote:

I am on the road working right now and wont be home for a few more days so I have no way to post any of the photos she has taken with it. Price wise they are fairly cheap.

Just saw a review on this camera VISTAQUEST VQ5090 , is there any way to get it from US ? to ship to malaysia ?

mghong wrote:

Hance wrote:

I am on the road working right now and wont be home for a few more days so I have no way to post any of the photos she has taken with it. Price wise they are fairly cheap.

Just saw a review on this camera VISTAQUEST VQ5090 , is there any way to get it from US ? to ship to malaysia ?

Never heard of it, but judging from what shows up in a google (for example) this looks like just another digicam in a waterproof housing, good for taking snaps while splashing around in water but not diving. There are a bunch of options like this -- whether it's waterpooof cases for digicams or the cameras specifically designed to be water-resistant like the Olympus Stylus and Pentax Optio lines (and that's not counting proper underwater housing and dive cameras that are good to 40+ m depth).

But that is nothing like what the Lomo and Holga are. It will produce normal photographs, not anything like what the Lomo and Holga produce. They aren't waterproof (at least not that I've heard) but they do create some odd, artsy photos. They key thing about them, however, is that they're chemical cameras, with real film. They aren't digital at all. If you want to take the results digital, you have to scan them... and then you might as well just fake it.