So #3GoodThings over the past few days... Friday we had our Spring Covid booster jab, yes, the V word. Full slaves to the Gates Foundation, again. Apart from not using any MS sw, natch.
2) Mrs R found 2 old P&S film cameras, one had a film in (found by opening the back, not so good). Replaced the batteries, test film run, awaiting dev.
3) It has been sunny all last week and forecast sunny all next week. Most sensible folk think this is a Good Thing! (... though photoing is much harder... ;-)
The cameras that Mrs R found in a drawer were an #OlympusStylus (aka mju 1), and an even older #MamiyaU. The Stylus I got for her on 42nd St NYC. Got it home, didn't work. No warranty because "grey import". Also, cost me more than UK price of the later mju 2 model! £40 to get it going again. Shafted!
Not sure when we got the Mamiya; I always rather liked it. Zone focusing, sliding window to turn on and reveal the lens, but a simpler design than the mjus. 1/n
I used a roll of #Kentmere100 for testing: 18 frames in the Stylus, rewound, transferred to the Mamiya, made 20 blank exposures in a dark bag (quite tricky for some reason, but we got there). Stylus does auto-wind, sounds a bit dodgy; Mamiya is manual wind. Devved the roll last week, scanned it tonight.
Always takes me a while to review images, so no pics yet. But overall the Olympus results were focused, sharp, contrasty and well exposed. The Mamiya not so much, in all departments! 2/n
The good thing about this particular #MamiyaU is it has the flexible cover over the shutter button. This was always a serious weakness. We've obviously had ours replaced; I remember it being red, but now it's green!
I rather like the #OlympusStylus (mju 1). The shape makes it easier to hold and (particularly) to open, compared to the mju 2. I have one of the latter, always in my jacket pocket loaded with economy (!) colour film for when it's needed. 3/n
ChrisR
shomeconomy(!) got a chuckle out of me!