MK1 Photography Blog

Something made me go and get my little Finepix X100 as the light was dull but nice and flat. I took photos of the leaves on the pavement as I walked to the local post office. It's a beautiful time of year as nature starts to let go and welcome winters embrace in a few weeks, it's nice to walk with the X100 its small and inconspicuous I had a couple of people say 'nice camera' and 'is that a film camera?'  It's interesting how people look at this little camera and lots talk to me about it, so below are my images from the original X100

 I use the Olympus OMD em1-x as my main bird photography camera. I recently bought a used Olympus 100-400 for it, the lens came from eBay and I got it for £456 which is a very good price! The lens has proved to be absolutely sharp and some copies aren't like this. Here are some shots from it

 I took some time out to walk around my village here in Haddenham. I often go out for "birding" walks as I call them, I have studied the locality and behaviour of the local bird life. This has helped with the shot of the Blue Tit as I was waiting for one to alight just where he sat so this worked well I have been doing images lately with my Olympus OMD EM1-X and an old 50-200 Olympus lens with the 1.4 converter which gives a real magnification of 585mm a good birding lens

Our local pond that is a busy little area with shops and cars moving about didn't bother this little Kingfisher  I went out with my trusty EM1X and the 75-300 Olympus lens and capture these, I am planning for my birthday this year and hopefully getting the Olympus 100-400this is effectively 200-800 in full frame equivalent! This extra reach will be perfect for this shot in the future. Hope you like them 

A damp and miserable January day today, forced myself to go out and take some images with this little wonderful camera. Sure it's frustrating and slow but who's in a rush? Not me. Sometimes it just will not focus in "macro" mode and then you remember that it needs to be at f4 or higher to work🫣 These photo's were all taken as jpeg with no raw captured and I did a little cropping and some adjustments to taste. They were all images of parts of my local village - I do hope you like them. On another note I have sent my Tri X 400 for developing and awaiting the negatives to be returned, once I have them converted to digital I will post them on here! Anyway here's this morning's images 

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