I bought my Holga 120N over four months ago. I haven’t taken it off my shelf yet. Despite the fact that the Holga takes really beautiful shots, there’s something quite daunting about not being able to see your photos right away, having a limited amount of pictures to take, and paying to develop film – I’ve been spoiled by the digital age, I suppose.

Indian designer, Sakit Biswas has taken care of all that. Well, almost. His digital version of the Holga retains much of the simplicity of the original camera. With no LCD screen, you won’t be able to see the shots your taking – retaining (to an extent) the ‘delayed gratification’ of analog photography, yet receiving digital copies much, much sooner (and of course, at no extra charge).

While only a design project by Biswas, Holga D is generating a lot of buzz in design blogs and gadget magazines. There aren’t any examples of photos that could – or would – be taken by this prototype, and I assume that the photos this prototype takes would look like any other digital print. However, I imagine it wouldn’t take much to get this into the hands of an engineer who could design some internal software to act similar to Canon’s faux fisheye mode (Canon Powershot SD1400) or the iPhone Hipstamatic app – essentially software that would superimpose filters over the photos to make them look like analog prints (ironic, I know). Nonetheless, here’s hoping the Holga D gets picked up and put into production.

Tags: design, photography

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