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Olympus Trip 35: The 1 Cent Wonder
Well I just bought another film camera. This one was purchased for the exorbitant sum of 1 cent!
Yep, one cent, with a flash and a bag too. And when I won the auction the seller asked “So do you want to come and pick it up? Or should I post it?” um… I couldn’t find a 1 cent piece and it was located interstate so it was posted…
I took a quick photo of it you can see below. I also managed to find an original lens cover for it that was in the bag of accessories I bought a week or so ago, so that was a nice surprise too.The camera has a great little multi coated 4 element D.Zuiko 40mm f2.8 lens that I’ve seen produce some brilliant results. It doesn’t use any batteries but has a solar-powered selenium light meter with an automatic mode and two shutter speeds (1/200 in auto mode and 1/40 for flash sync). Everything works perfectly on it, but I need to replace a light seal as the camera is pretty old. I think its one of the earlier models, they were made from 1967- 1984. Quite a long time.
I’ve already put a roll of film in it with the dodgy light seals just for fun. I wonder if any will turn out.
Yeah, it needs a clean too…
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No im not dead…
Just very busy…
Between all of my assignments, work, friends coming from and going overseas, plus the Christmas rush, I haven’t had much time to post anything up here for a while. I’m still taking photos which I’m happy about, but haven’t got most of them developed yet. It’s a bit frustrating, as the curiosity is killing me. I wish there was a decent film developer that was local, so I didn’t have to travel half way across the city. Next week hopefully I’ll be getting 3 more rolls developed.
Oh, one thing that’s been pretty cool is a nice little eBay purchase I made the other week.
I scored a mixed bag of Olympus goodness for next to nothing (ie. <$5). I didn’t know exactly what was in it until I got it home, but I was pleasantly surprised. From the (really dodgy) picture below you can just see the bottom of bag that had all of these accessories in it. The cool part is that many are genuine Olympus too and all are in top condition. I’m pretty happy as I’ll be putting most of it to use.
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Melbourne in Black and White
These pictures are from the same roll I mentioned in the previous post. These were taken in Melbourne (hence the title), and I’m quite pleased with them (if you couldn’t already tell, haha).
I think I might try and sharpen these pictures up though. For example you can hardly make the persons face out in the first one, even though the print and negative contain enough detail to see his facial features very clearly. Anyway, enough complaining, its my fault that I just didn’t get the photo lab to scan them! (I didn’t expect any pictures to turn out)
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My First Roll!
Well I just got my first ever roll of film developed from my Olympus OM2n and I’m very pleased with the results. Actually, I’m just pleased with the fact that the camera even worked! I wasn’t sure if the light meter would still work after 30 years, and I wasn’t certain how well I’d changed the light seals, so I was very happy when everything seemed to work as it should.
One frustrating thing however is my film scanner. It’s just a cheap flatbed scanner and with a film negative attachment. I really need a proper one, as the one I’m using doesn’t capture anywhere near enough detail and makes the pictures looks too grainy (more than normal).
But I thought I’d post some up anyway, I’m still pleased with the results, especially considering it was my first ever go with a manual focus camera, and essentially a test roll with this new camera.These are just a few taken around my house and at dad’s studio. As I said before, the scanner just doesn’t pick up anywhere near as much detail as it should… Next time I’ll use a proper scanner.
Edit: Three photos have been corrupted so have been removed from this post.
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Cross Processing Shibuya
I still have heaps of photos from my Asia trip I haven’t really gone through yet.
These are some I took in Shibuya Japan, I’m sure you probably recognise it. It’s a crazy place, so many aspects of it seem like you’re in the movie Blade Runner. There is so much activity going on around you. People everywhere, TV screen flashing at you, the sound of seizure inducing Pachinko Parlors, and the alleys filled with “Love hotels”. Its a sensory overload and I thought it was fantastic.I tried out a Cross Processed effect with these. I found a Cross Processing action which worked ok, but it fell short of what I was ultimately after so processed them further myself. I quite like how they turned out, hope you like some of them too. These first 2 photos were taken from Starbucks above the intersection. It has the best view, but unfortunately a lot of people bumping the bench I was resting the camera on!
