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[Hagwood]

And some more from the lake:

 

[Hagwood]

And now for something completely different...

Some recent shots from around Beacon, NY... made with a circa-1963 Olympus Pen F half-frame 35mm FILM camera. I've had this camera in the collection for years, but it had overexposure problems (the auto-diaphragm was slow to close), and I only just got it repaired. Good old Tri-X developed in D-76, then scanned the negs at 2400 dpi and did minor cropping and tweaking:

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The camera itself is a masterpiece of midcentury design, a tiny SLR that takes interchangeable lenses (these were shot with the 38mm normal lens, equivalent to a 55mm on a standard 35mm camera). It gets two vertical 18x24mm negatives in place of each standard horizontal 35mm neg, so I got 53 shots on a 24-exposure roll... and with today's films, there's plenty of resolution and detail in the smaller negatives. It's a shame that half-frame 35mm is a barely recalled format nowadays, I love this little manual camera!

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Nice shots and a great little Camera. I was an Olympus guy myself back in the film days with OM-1, OM-3, and OM-4. Still have the OM-4 and a bunch of lenses.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Thanks. Your shots are excellent too!

I still regularly shoot with my OM-2 also. I have four lenses, and as a backup body, my old OM-G (aka OM-20). The OM-2 is undoubtedly the most ergonomically pleasant SLR I've ever used, with outstanding lenses and dead-on metering. (I also sometimes use an Olympus Stylus Epic point-and-shoot that was originally my son's camera before he went digital. Yet another very small, seriously great Olympus camera!)

I also shoot with a Nikon F2 and a bunch of Nikkor lenses - I inherited this equipment, and MUCH more, from my parents, who ran a small commercial studio for over 50 years. Of course, the Nikon produces outstanding images too, is built like a piece of military hardware, and is also a hoot to shoot... but lugging around a camera its size/weight is a chore. Especially compared to the OM-2. Speaking of smaller...

I was a Minox subminiature shooter for much of my life too, but that teeny negative requires really sharp shooting/processing/printing (and/or scanning/tweaking) skills, and I'm not up to it any more. So I retired my Minoxes last year and got my half-frame Pen F repaired - I wasn't ready to give up on smaller-than-full-frame-35mm negatives yet!

 

[Bushman]

Mini camp site:

 

[Trenchfriend]

@Doctor Strange
Same on Pentax ME Super.

 

[Trenchfriend]

That's, why I freakin' love June!

 

[Trenchfriend]

Last:

 

[Bushman]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

 

[Bushman]

 

[HanauMan]

Flowers of the Ragwort.

 

[HanauMan]

Raindrops on a maple leaf.

 

[HanauMan]

Summer storm over Inverness

: the view from my room.

 

[HanauMan]

Daybreak along the river.

 

[Zombie_61]

Flowers of the Ragwort.

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Ragwort? That isn't one of those Harry Potter things, is it?

 

[Bushman]

Refurbished some old photos of mine:

 

[Turnip]

Somewhere Greece

 

[Blare]

Somewhere Greece

Very nice... what are the glowing sparkles in the water? bioluminescent Creatures or reflection of stars?

 

[Turnip]

Thank you very much!

I fear the lights are way less natural, these were just some LEDs on the ground of the pool.

Cheers

Turnip

 

[Blare]

Thank you very much!

I fear the lights are way less natural, these were just some LEDs on the ground of the pool.

Cheers

Turnip

Haha. I was realizing it was a pool and not ocean after I commented. Still beautiful photo.