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LOMO Negative 400
Lomography Color Negative 400 is a versatile ISO 400 C-41 color negative film with vivid, saturated colors, believed to be a Kodak Alaris-manufactured emulsion, available in 35mm and 120 formats.
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The Holga 120N is a 6×6 medium-format camera made of plastic with a plastic 60mm f/8 single-element lens. It has two apertures (f/8 and f/11, though the difference is negligible due to a manufacturing quirk where both stops use the same opening), a single shutter speed plus bulb, and four-zone focus. The body leaks light around the back, vignettes hard at the corners, and produces unsharp, dreamy images that no "real" camera could replicate.
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C41
Lomography Color Negative 400 is a versatile ISO 400 C-41 color negative film with vivid, saturated colors, believed to be a Kodak Alaris-manufactured emulsion, available in 35mm and 120 formats.
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Lomography Color Negative 800 is a high-speed ISO 800 C-41 color negative film widely suspected to be a Kodak-manufactured emulsion, delivering vibrant colors and adequate grain for challenging lighting conditions.
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The plastic medium-format camera. Vignettes, soft corners, deliberate light leaks — and a fine-art photography movement built around its imperfections.
| Field | Value |
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| Format | 120 (12 frames 6×6, or 16 frames 6×4.5 with insert) |
| Lens | 60mm f/8 plastic meniscus |
| Years | 1981 onward |
| Shutter | ~1/100s + Bulb |
| Aperture | f/8 / f/11 (often functionally identical) |
| Focus | Zone, 4-step (1m, 2m, 6m, ∞) |
| Weight | 200 g |
| Battery | None |
Designed in Hong Kong, 1981, originally as a low-cost camera for the Chinese mainland market when 120 film was still standard there. Discovered by Western artists in the late 1980s as 35mm displaced 120 in mass production — the Holga's flaws became its appeal. Lomography began distributing Holgas in the early 2000s; production moved to Lomography's supply chain after the original Hong Kong factory closed in 2015. Variants over time: 120CFN (color flash), 120GN (glass lens), 120GCFN (glass lens + color flash), 135 (35mm body), 120-3D (twin-lens stereo Holga). Several "Holga reissue" announcements have flickered through the late 2010s; a current production version is sold by Freestyle Photographic in 2026.
The Holga is the founding text of the Lomography / "toy camera" movement. David Burnett shot the 2000 US presidential campaign on Holgas (his "Newsweek Holga" series became a defining moment for the movement). MFA programs in photography routinely teach Holga workshops. The camera's flaws — vignette, soft focus, color shifts, light leaks — became deliberate aesthetic choices that influenced everything from album-cover art to wedding photography.
For fine-art use, the 6×6 negative is genuinely large and scans well despite the optical mediocrity. The Holga's "look" is a function of the plastic lens, not the format.
Lens fixed. Accessories: 6×4.5 frame insert (16 shots per roll instead of 12), hot-shoe flash, multi-image cap, color filter set, lens cap. Light-tape is the most-bought accessory — Holga bodies leak around the back door and tape is the standard fix (or a feature, depending on intent).
Kodak Gold 200 is a daylight-balanced C-41 color negative film with warm color, moderate grain, and a classic consumer-film look.
C41
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
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Kodak Tri-X 400 is a classic black-and-white film known for strong tonality, visible grain, and documentary character.
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