Holga HL-C 60mm f/8 Lens for Canon DSLR Camera(Black)

This is a fun lens for the price, it's certainly niche but you can get a lot of cool effects out of it with very little effort. That said, it's absolutely NOT f/8. It's MUCH slower, so slow that the viewfinder will be fully blacked out in low light conditions. I did a little digging around and confirmed my suspicions that it's more like f/24. Apparently, this is because Holga lenses are terrible at focusing to infinity, so they basically make it "squint" with a very small aperture, which greatly increases the distance it can focus at. This also means it has a very deep depth of field. From what I've seen, it's easy to modify the lens to open the aperture up, which makes the depth of field much more limited and allows for some pretty crazy chromatic bokeh effects, but it also makes it impossible to focus past ~25 feet. I'm half tempted to buy another just to try that out, haha. Still gets 5 stars, just because of the price.

Este lente debe ser usado a manera de diversión y experimentación, la foto tiene viñetado y unos colores retro que me encantan, si te gustan las fotos super definidas y a gran resolución no compres este lente, es mas bien para jugar a tomar fotos y hacer fotos estilo "lomography", tomar fotos en blanco y negro y este lente son una gran combinación.

Es un lente muy muy obscuro, pero se puede arreglar modeando el lente.

I am a total noob in the photography world, but always have loved it. I have an upcoming trip to Boston, and fell in love with the idea of doing a film album of it. However, I realized that today film cameras are not the affordable thing they used to be, especially when it boils down to revealing your pictures. I have a Canon Rebel T6 which I’m taking on the trip with me, so I figured I’d give the Holga lens a shot. In my inexperienced-experience, this lens was simple to install and use. It is very lightweight and made out of plastic. It works great in the auto setting which is great for those of us who are not handy with the manual settings. The pictures with flash also look great in my opinion . What I find the most tricky is the focusing aspect, which may not be the lens but just me. I have added some of my practice pictures in this review in case some of you want to see what kind of image can be produced with this lens:) Overall, if you are looking for a fun alternative lens that gives you pictures similar to those family photo albums from the 80’s… then you’ve got yourselves a deal with this one. **UPDATE** You all better buy this lens! I finally went to Boston and I’m so happy with the pictures I took using it. I added some in this review! Very important to play with the settings to get your best shot!!!

I would give this 5 stars if it weren’t for the imperfections, and the imperfections might lead me to give it 3 stars if it weren’t for the price. Frankly I think you get what you pay for— a cheap toy lens that sometimes gives you really cool photos. Whatever f stop this lens is listed as having consider it f22. You need high ISO even in full sun and if shooting indoors is combined with high power flash. Considering the look I don’t mind it. It’s not supposed to be perfect, I just find you have to mindful not to blind human subjects if shooting in darker environments! I’ve ordered 2-3 of these over the years. They all had their own imperfections. The lens my sample photo was taken on has a foggy spot on the middle-right of the frame which annoyed me, leading me to order a second which had no issues. That being said I like the imperfections with the look of this lens and will be using the original to play around with lighting and add interest to my photos. I have no issues using this on my older EF mount canon camera, for some reason my RF/EF adapter won’t work with this lens but I believe if I turn off the setting in camera requiring lens focusing it may work though it’s yet to be tested. Would recommend, it’s fun way to get the Holga look with immediate turn around and a much better cost!