I really like the "Slice of Curve" Nice grain and color palette.
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Dawid Loubser wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I had some severely expired Fuji Superia 800 print film in the fridge.
> One roll. Which had a note on it "continue at #4" - I had started
> shooting this roll the first time I laid hands on an OM-1 around 3
> years ago. I figured I'd slap it into the Clay's OM-2n he sent me as a
> gift, stick on the "easy hand-holdable" 250/2.0 and do some street
> shooting one rainy evening. It was really more of a "let's see how
> this lens works, and if it can be hand-held" event than an inspired
> photographic outing, and in not great surroundings, but the light was,
> for a moment, quite nice during the rain.
>
> All of the images taken at f/2.0 (hand-held) shutter speeds usually
> between 1/125s and 1/500s:
>
> http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs50/f/2009/320/9/b/Wet_Crossing_by_philosomatographer.jpg
> http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/320/3/3/A_Slice_of_Curve_by_philosomatographer.jpg
> http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs50/f/2009/320/9/4/Trim_and_proper_by_philosomatographer.jpg
> http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/320/3/1/Bird_and_Antenna_by_philosomatographer.jpg
> http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/320/4/c/Rivonia_Boulevard_by_philosomatographer.jpg
>
> As I said... this beast of a lens and I are becoming friends. It's
> *such* a joy to use and focus, so smooth, and the combination of a
> hyper-sharp 250mm lens, bright viewfinder at f/2.0, my favourite 1-8
> smooooth focusing screen in the OM-2's huge viewfinder, and a focus
> ring with "just the right" amount of focus travel, makes the focusing
> and composing experience delightful.
>
> Hmm - 35mm colour print film at ISO 800 is extremely grainy, but not
> too bothersome for most modest print sizes, I must say, and I quite
> like the subdued colour hues. Grain is about equal to what I used to
> get with my C*non 1D MkIIN at ISO3200 (perhaps pushed a bit), but what
> I do like is that the grain pattern has zero banding, unlike almost
> every DLSR I've ever used, so it's very live-able. Wouldn't do it for
> critical work in this day and age, but it was liberating to not be
> caught by Ken's "gotcha of the great" by shooting expensive/good film
> - this was a grainy, cheap, expired film, I could have fun and just
> snap away.
>
> I can really recommend to anybody to put your favourite OM lens on
> your favourite OM body, load it with some cheap print film, and go
> have fun. The images still have "substance" !
>
> thanks for watching,
> Dawid
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