I haven’t photographed much lately. Occupied with other things (electronics, software, housekeeping, private stuff) too much. The only thing that helps is some subtle force. Walk around with a camera, snap the mundane stuff I come across. It’s unlikely I’ll print any of these images; quick & dirty scans are probably as far as they’ll ever get. That’s OK – there’s always more rocks than nuggets!
Olympus OM-10; a lovely little camera, so lightweight! Mostly with a Soligor Wide-Auto 28/2.8 which is…a lens. Really, it’s nothing special at all. Not particularly wide, definitely not particularly sharp, not particularly contrasty – not particularly anything. And yet, it’s the lens I use the most on this camera. It is what it is. The darkened corners are due to the cheap polarizer that’s apparently not even moderately-wide-angle proof. OK.
The last one was shot with a 135/2.8 Panagor-E. It came to me with a non-functioning aperture, which I only discovered because of some very conspicuously dense color negatives I made with it. Turns out to be quite sharp even wide-open, actually! Fixed the aperture and now it seems to be doing fine.
Fomapan 200, bulk rolled, exposed at around 200 or so – but EI’s/ISO’s are kind of hand-waving in a general direction when working with the kind of meter that the OM10 has. Developed in Instant Mytol, 4m30s at around 25C. If the developer is hot, I just compensate for it by adjusting development time instead of trying to bring down the temperature. Ain’t got no time for that, hah!
Scans from my trusty old Epson 4990 after having cleaned the transparency unit a bit. Applied some contrast curve adjustments in GIMP, but no digital burning & dodging. Split toning applied with the “Color Balance” tool – adding some cyan and magenta in the shadows, a bit of blue in the midtones and a good deal of yellow and a smidgeon of magenta in the highlights. That’ll do, donkey.
PS: notice that vertical light band near the right edge of #1? Yeah, I see it, too. Haven’t figured that one out, yet, but it looks like an in-camera reflection. Gotta admit that the light seals are pretty much gone on this one, so I suspect it may have something to do with that. Maybe it’s time to get hold of some neoprene or something.