MK1 Photography Blog

I write to you on here like a friend that I discuss things with. I have been investigating trying out analogue film photography again, I stared with Olympus way back when I was 11 years old with a superb little point and shoot camera the Olympus Trip 35. So with that memory firmly coming back into focus I have bought from eBay another camera it is an Olympus 35 RD Range finder circa 1975 I believe. I have yet to run a film through it but have bought from an online store a 24 exposure Kodak TriX 400. Very soon I will plan to do one roll of film per month development on line and I will "scan" the negatives with my Olympus Em1x and 60mm Macro taking a photograph of each one. I plan to record on images I take with the camera by recording my exposure as my phone has a lightmeter app on it. I will record this data and take a photo with my camera for viewers on here to enjoy. Below is a phone shot of the new addition    Merry Christmas everyone ⛄ 🎁☃️🌲❄️

We made our annual visit to the church in Haddenham where we live, it's a very festive affair and starts to get the Christmas thoughts moving! Local community groups dress their trees and it's all in aid of charity, I always take my X100 down there and now all I have is the original X100 it did really well in the conditions it faced - the results seem to speak for the little original 

I decided as the weather was reasonable I would take some time in my local neighborhood to take some photos  I used the EM1-X and my 75-300 Olympus lens a cheaper but not too bad lens for this, it focuses quite well and being f6.7 at the long end slower shutter speeds happen a bit! Below are my selections from today I hope you like them

 So Pentax have designed and built a new film camera the first in 20 years! I was very interested as I remember film so much find memories......I watched this video Pentax 17 And it really got me thinking about film all over again, the photos so vintage in today's world and the grain on a print when we didn't care about grain. Then it hit me STOP it's just GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) I already have a camera just like that It gives the nearest feel to analogue photography, great BW a bit of grain and slow process perhaps more mindful than most cameras today. Below is my grandson having a bath at my house I used my little X100 for this shot very filmic in look and exposure GAS averted!

I have kept with Olympus and now have an E-M1X an absolute beast in the M4:3 world. It came out in 2019 and was sold for a number of years, it been superceded by the OM1 Mkii but I still believe this is the king of the genre. Of course it's very large in this sensor world but very small compared to the likes of Canon or Nikon with a battery grip built in. I shoot macro and wildlife and of course my family. This camera performed so well in all these types of photography, below are firstly my latest examples of bird photography at which the cameras built in AI tracked the heron.

  Today I decided to venture out with my beautiful Finepix X100 The shots today were taken to show the autumnal change in the season here in the UK, the original sensor does well with these colours. Of course even with my many years with this camera it still does the usual X100 focus problems - I switched it into "macro mode" and at f4 this helps stop the errors when the background was busy. It was lovely to walk about with this so simple little classic