last week I became the proud owner of my first film camera,
an olympus OM 10. I had been uuuming and ahhhhing over purchasing a film camera
to use alongside my olympus OM-D E-M10 for a few months, particularly so I could
get some shots whilst in cape town this summer.
I purchased the camera from a seller on gumtree for £50; the
price included the camera, batteries, original flash and instructions, also an olympus
strap and original leather case. having not used a film camera for years, I wanted
one that was able to run on automatic and manual, that was easy to use!
as soon as my camera arrived, after reading through the
instructions and a quick clean-up of the camera itself, I loaded some old film
into it and decided to use my kitties as my test subject. I decided to get the film developed with asda, with the
negatives being scanned directly onto a CD rather than printed – which did save
an unnecessary cost.
a lot if the images were out of focus, and over exposed – I think
I really did overcompensate for shooting indoors, thinking it was much darker
than it actually was – a lesson learnt for next time! also, after looking through
the instructions again I picked up how I help to recognise when blur was likely
to occur.
below are 3 of my favourite shots and to be honest the only
ones that really worked! these were shot in the living room window, in natural
daylight, and I love the wishy washy colour effect that has been created by
them being slightly overexposed – and the film being a good 3 years out of
date!
I can’t wait to take this camera with me to cape town, to
get some photographs of my trip. I’ve ordered 4 different films, from different
brands, to see which I prefer and which works best for me, I feel the
photographs will have a really special look to them.