Throwback Edit Version: I edited this in April 2024, checked links and converted it to the new WordPress format.

I ended up testing this camera twice. I forgot that I had already used it for a day out in Tokyo, and then I took it to a local shrine another day. That is why I have decided not to buy any more cameras until I have gone through the ones I already have.

This camera has a lot of functions for a point-and-shoot, even the flash has 4 different settings. According to the official Olympus website, this camera came out in 1987 and was the first Olympus camera with a zoom lens, ooooh. The zoom is 35-70mm. The macro feature means you can focus at 1m, which isn’t really macro now, but I guess it was amazing at the time. One of the features I did try was the multi-exposure on the top. To make that work you pressed that button while pressing the shutter, it stopped the film from advancing. If you look at the photos below you will see one example of this. I forgot to use some of the other functions. I also used the auto flash which worked very well.

This camera feels like a brick, without a battery it is 400g. As for the results, it did ok. It is not the best, not the sharpest, but it was fun to try the buttons and switches.

As mentioned, I first took it to Hachiko Crossing in Shibuya, Tokyo. This was my first attempt at this kind of street photography and I was very self-conscious. I definitely need more practice with this style. Plus it was a dull, rainy day. Not a great combination.

The second outing was to a local shrine, this was also a dull, drizzly day. After, I made a mistake when processing the film. I heard my timer beep then poured out the developer 30 seconds from the end…I was on autopilot, I should have agitated it. Oops, lesson learned.

Meh, the camera was ok. It didn’t rock my boat.

As I have no intention of keeping a million cameras and I just like trying out cameras then selling them, I am sometimes in a quandary. I went wombling this week and saw another samurai for $3 and I knew I could sell it for a profit, but I had just posted the same camera here. What to do? Buy or leave? In the end I decided to leave it, but now I regret it. I guess I have to decided the whole purpose of this hobby. Is it the selling or the playing? If it is the selling then I should buy cameras I find that will make a profit. If it is trying, then I should leave cameras I have already tried.

As for this camera, I gave it back to a junk bin.