RIP Holga
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>http://www.freestylephoto.biz/holga-ceases-operations
So should buy a lot of holgas and sell them to hipster for a premium?
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Kek
It's a good thing that no one cares about that hipster camera anymore. About time that hipsters already grew up and stopped bothering with photography.
Man there was nothing more satisfying than running expensive film through a shit camera and ruining it. Then mailing it off to a company to develop it so I could scan it with my iPhone . . so rewarding.
It's just a matter of time until some shop on aliexpress starts producing 1to1 copies and selling them for the same price.
>>2713255
>If that is true, the Holga clone is going to be even crappier than the original.
The set up costs for a Holga line are probably tiny. Considering the astronomical profit margin they have when sold at $30+ to hipster fucks, I imagine they will happily start churning out more as long as there is demand.
>>2713272
This.
It's not like there's a ton of complex, precise moving parts to figure out. Just buy a couple of Holgas, make some injection molds of the parts, and start selling them again.
Honestly, part of the thing with Holgas to begin with was the fact that their parts were shit. I'm not saying that as an insult---hell, I own a Holga---it's just part of their whole schtick. They aren't light tight. Their aperture dial doesn't actually do anything. Their lenses are inconsistent at best. Honestly, it'd be relatively easy to make one.
>>2713272
But if it's so profitable, why did they stop producing?
>>2713282
It could be something as simple as already having huge stockpiles, or it could all be a scam & they haven't really stopped production but want to drum up more attention.
this shit should get enough atention to have a boom of chinese olgas
and then, chinese should start making film massively and very cheap. then a film renaissanse. we can only hope.
>>2713289
I'm under the impression that the only price and production limiting factor that stops china from flooding the world with cheap shit grainy film is the silver used in the emulsions. That's the one bit you can't replace with child labour and poisonous brittle plastic.
>>2713290
>silver
its a huge land. they dont have silver mines inside all that space?
>>2713293
china has ass for natural resources, hilariously enough
>>2713293
Are you dense or do you have some certified illness? Yeah, "chinese silver", costs a tenth of the international one, 'cos it's chinese, right? Everything in china's cheap, you could probably make a fortune buying their cheap mass-produced chinese gold and selling it in the US or Europe, right? derp derp
>>2712165
>inb4 the lomography society buys the molds and starts selling a holga+ pack for $250
