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The Holga is a medium format 120 film camera, made in Hong Kong, known for its low-fidelity aesthetic. The Holga's low-cost construction and simple meniscus lens often yields pictures that display vignetting, blur, light leaks, and other distortions. The camera's limitations have brought it a cult following among some photographers, and Holga photos have won awards and competitions in art and news photography.
The Camera Obscura is a 19th century optical device often used by artists to make quick sketches in the field. A competing device is the Camera Lucida. Camera Obscura means dark room, and the use of a pinhole in a window blind to form an inverted image of an outside scene on an opposite wall of a dark room has been known since at least the time of the Arab scholar Ibn al Hait[h]em (or Alhazen, ca. 956-1038).