Don’t you wish you had a full Holga outfit with wide and long lenses? I did! So I made a holga with a portrait lens. This is a single-element, plastic, 110mm lens. It is all the things that make Holgas great: Non-anachromatic, non-aspheric, non-astigmatic, and even more pincushioning than the Holga 60mm.
Built using a $2.49 magnifying glass from Walgreens (lovingly extracted from its housing with a 1" wood chisel) and about $15 of plumbing supplies (counting the stuff I bought "just in case" but never used). The Holga shutter had to be replaced since the aperture was much too small. I had purchased a cheapo Metax shutter on ebay a couple of months ago for $20, thinking I’d put it on a pinhole camera. This is a much better use! (The pinhole shutter will remain a strip of electrical tape.)
The image on the lower right shows a wax paper "ground glass" view (rather out-of-focus) of the image through the lens.
HOLGA 110mm portrait lens on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Photos from the camera

This is proving to be Holga week here at the lab.
Now this is an odd bird. I never thought I’d see an auxiliary lens kit for a Holga camera. If you didn’t know, the Holga 120 format camera is an amazingly cheap medium format camera in both price and quality. The only reason that the cameras aren’t serving as filler in a sea wall somewhere is that it takes a darn unique photo. For some examples check out the
LEGO has a clever little accessory for keeping track of your keys. I’m kind of surprised that no one had done this before. Maybe it’s because the ABS plastic doesn’t seem strong enough to weather a pocket full of keys. Maybe the key fob brick has some filler that adds some strength to the brick.