Turn Your Holga Into a PinHolga

This post will explain how you can turn your holga camera into a pinhole camera or a pinholga. The great thing is its really easy to do, and doesn’t require any previous knowledge of using pinhole cameras!

You will need: A Holga, Foil, tape and a pin

1.Get the Lens Off
First get your Holga camera, and then unscrew the lens. If you have not done this before then you will need to force it a little, but don’t worry it can be screwed back on later!

2. Get Foil!
Get a piece of normal foil from your kitchen and cut it into a square that is big enough to cover the hole in the middle of the lens. (The Bit that lets the light through!)

3. Tape down the foil
Get some tape and tape down the foil securely. Sorry about the poor quality of my photograph here. Basically make sure all the edges are taped to the plastic of the Holga. You don’t want light leaking through the sides!

4. Make That Pin Hole
Next get yourself a pin and prick the center of the foil. I held the shutter open and did this from behind so that I could get it as close to the middle as possible. You could measure if you want to be precise.

You may notice the pin prick here:

5. Set Your Holga to B mode
Turn over your Holga and slide the switch over to B. You will need long exposures as the hole you have made (the apature) is very small.

That is it, your ready to go! You don’t need a cover for your pinhole either because the shutter does the job for you!

You may want to experiment with different exposure times on your first film to see how your film reacts to the size of the hole.

Good luck!