It's enough to give some photographers palpitations: taking a perfectly good digital camera body worth hundreds or thousands of dollars and attaching a $20 plastic Holga lens to it, or even worse a pinhole cap. Not really sure what else is out there, but I'd like to, so let's see your super-low-tech digital images here!
Nikon D200 with pinhole cap made from a jam jar lid:
oohh, i am interested in this thread. the $20 holga pinhole was one of my first novelty purchases after i got my D90. however, i haven't really extracted anything worthwhile photowise with it.
Maybe this is a wake up call for me to get off my arse and do something with it!
@dieter LOL sorry about that I got carried away with the idea. I have been on the lookout for a diana lens for the GF2 but seem unable to find one atm.
@dieter@scatochef@noo@agima@esmeanne have been busy playing with a vintage Leitz (Leica) Elmar 90mm lens i picked up cheaply on ebay this evening so sorry to be entering discussion a bit late. The Leitz is soft and sensual to focus with aperture settings on lens and is a delight in lower light after sunset. It is quite slow and the focus takes a while to adjust to. On the other hand the Holga is unpredictable and a game changer. The following was taken of a sunburst with Holga on PEN after dawn. It is like the solar/lens flares are hitting the lens like laser beams. Also like macros with Holga on PEN. BTW the Diana lens can only be bought as an attachment for Nikon or Canon DSLRs. My view is go for the exotic- some soviet Leica copy lenses with an M 39 adapter.
Last fall I put my Holga fisheye lens ($30) over my 50mm f/1.8 and turned my D80 into a "digital Holga" (I don't like calling it that though, because my Holga takes really sharp and clear photos, haha)
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Maybe this is a wake up call for me to get off my arse and do something with it!
Result:
Taken with vintage Leitz Elmar on PEN