#olympus pen ee3

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『chained memory』

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More film photographs.

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OLYMPUS PEN EE3

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Rome, May 2024.

Camera - 70's Olympus PEN EE3 Film - Kodak 200

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A short roll of Konica Centuria 400 (expired)

A short roll of Konica Centuria 400 (expired): the one where I make a 12 exposure roll of film go twice as far #believeinfilm

Jon sent me a few rolls of expired 35mm film recently, which included two 12 exposure rolls of Konica Centuria. I decided to use them both in the Olympus Pen EE3 half-frame camera, effectively giving me 48 exposures rather than 24. Bear in mind though that I typically use the EE3 to create diptych pairs and occasionally even panoramic images. “Here be Rats” – location of a previous blog…

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Olympus Pen EE3 Half Frame

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Girls and cameras...

Oh my, so many cameras, so little time... 3 Rolleiflex, Polaroid Model 95, Olympus Pen EE3, a Kodak 620 and others. La Bardot favored Pentax in some other photos I've seen but I can't make this one out. I wish the pics were bigger.

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寂しい、７月２０２４年

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Analog photography - Going to france

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OLYMPUS PEN EE3

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Olympus Pen EE3

My passion towards shooting on the film went a little overboard this year. From passion, it had taken the form of obsession, and like most obsessions, there had to be a stop, or at least a patchwork of sorts to sew up the hole forming in my pocket. And I told myself that the last camera I will buy for a while will be a half-frame one. I had no clue that a camera like this existed. Rameez, a fellow photography enthusiast introduced me to it while showing me his collection of cameras and lens kits. As soon as I heard about it, it got me hooked. A camera that can take 72 shots instead of 36 was a boon in today’s market because each film costs above 1K, and the good ones can go up to 2.8K to buy. Then there is the development and scanning cost once you have finished the roll. I knew that the resolution will not be as good as a full 35mm film because well, you are now shooting on half of that space. But I had become a kid whose heart was in it for this new toy. I would keep an eye out for a good reliable half-frame available in the second-hand market. There is the new Kodak Ektar H35, but it has a plastic body, and I didn’t trust how long it will last with all the loading and rewinding of the film. There are not a lot of options when it comes to half-frame, and the most commonly available and decent pick is an Olympus Pen series model. I found one at Prabhu Film Store, but I was hesitant to pick it up because there was the guilt of spending so frivolously on a hobby, and I was eyeing a model that was in mint condition. I must have gone four times to Prabhu, taken the camera in my hand, feel the weight of it, touch the knobs, and then put it back, almost hiding it behind the stash of other cameras, so that nobody else spots it buys it before I make up my mind. I am not very good at being patient with these things, and I wanted to call an end to this indulgence of mine by making this last purchase. On my fifth visit, I bought the camera, loaded a roll, came back home, and decided to spruce up the body as best as I could. 

I cleaned the body with lens cleaning solution, but there were rubbed-off edges with marks that won’t go. You can’t remove the history of an object, and I didn’t intend to make it a new object anyway. There were chipped-off parts on the lining of the body that could have done with some concealing, so I picked up the ever-reliable and mouldable electric tape. I cut thin strips and stuck them on all the black parts carefully. I then painted the area around the camera logo black with an acrylic tube I had lying around. I then polished it with a spray I have for coating plastic parts. The next challenge and the most important one was to make a lens cap. The lens of the Olympus Pen doesn’t protrude out, so it’s relatively free of catching any scratches, but a lens cap was needed for a more important reason. There is no digital light meter in the Pen models, these cameras have selenium cells embedded all around the lens that dictates whether there is enough light to shoot or not. If you want the selenium cells to have a prolonged life, then it’s best to keep it concealed when not shooting. The camera was anyway lying out for many years with no cap on, but I wanted to take better care of it, so I fashioned a lens cap out of a small jar lid with foam lining stuck in the inside. I put on a new strap too, and the camera was ready to shoot. Now, this camera has a set shutter speed of 1/40 (as per my knowledge) with an adjustable ISO setting. You can also change the aperture (there are a couple of stops for it), but I didn’t want to fiddle with that too much in the beginning. This camera is built for shooting outdoors, and there is no inbuilt flash for taking photos in low light. But I wanted to test it out for taking shots indoors too, so I would point the camera towards a well-lit area, half press the button, so that the selenium cells don’t interfere later in going through with the shot, and then take a photo of a relatively less well-lit area. The camera doesn’t fire if the selenium cells tell it that the light is low, so you have to fool it to allow you to shoot indoors.  There was going to be a lot of testing with the first roll, so I put a Kentamere PAN 100 because it’s cheaper than most other films. You have to exhaust 72 shots to see the results, so it’s a much longer wait than the run of a 36-film set. 

I went through the roll relatively quicker because I wanted to see the results and see what tweaks I will have to make when I shoot next with it. I had to get the films scanned at a much higher resolution because, with the basic one, you would hardly get any details in the scans, and that meant paying more for it. There goes the extra bit I was trying to save. 

Shots of Doddanekundi Lake

Banshankari

Sufi :)

You can see the rest of the shots on my Flickr stream.

When I got the results, I was amused, surprised, and a tad bit disappointed too. The shots were exactly the opposite of the Yashica Electro ones because those were a little too high in contrast with details so sharp that they could prick you. Kentamere PAN 100 doesn’t give very high contrast shots, so many shots were a little washed out. An Ilford Delta would work better I suppose. There is certainly a bit of light leak contributing to the flatness of the shots, and it would need better concealing of the camera’s back when I shoot next. There is a lot of flare when shooting against the Sun, and you can’t go very close to the subject because it doesn’t focus well then. I feel shots that are taken at a distance of 5 metres at least work well. Ideally, the shots taken of the subject further in distance should have focused well too, but that hasn’t happened in some of the shots, so I am not sure why the infinite focus is not precise. Some of the indoor shots are better than the ones taken in direct light, so that adjustment has to be kept in mind. Lastly, it’s tough to get very detailed shots on a half-frame, it’s not meant for it because there is not enough film space to pack in details. The landscape orientation feels wider in this one, so that felt good when switching away from the portrait orientation shots. 

Let’s see how the next rolls turn out on it. It will be a while though because I am travelling and don’t have the half-frame camera with me. Glad to have made the purchase and put some sort of stop to this camera-gazing spree I was on. Instagram with its algorithms still keeps throwing vintage camera reels on my feed, but I must stay patient.