Gosh, this bag is hard work, the fifth day, the fifth post. Well, let’s get to it. Here is the reveal video from this morning…
An Olympus Mju 105, with a battery and a spare. I have tried the deluxe version of this camera, but to be honest, I only tried one film in it. I never really gave it a fair trial. It was when I was living in Japan, and I got it for a very low price in a junk bin, so it might not have been in the best condition. This one looks great.
That weather-proof sticker was reassuring. It has done nothing but rain here for the past few weeks, and it looks set to continue. As you can see in the video, the flash fired after it was turned on, but I didn’t hear any advance motors whirring.
I decided to load it with a roll of film I got for Christmas in the Emulsive Secret Santa box.
Yatta! It seemed to work perfectly, it loaded the film without issue, took a photo using the flash and advanced after. I can test it with this film and if it works, add it to my camera post list.
I don’t see much of a difference between this and the deluxe one I have tried apart from the gold styling. I wrote before that the deluxe version has a panoramic setting and date imprinting, but so does this version. I will research it more after testing. Like yesterday, I will update this post when I have tried the camera with film.
That is a very nice camera. Awesome!
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Oh, I love these things, in all their dozens of zoomy variants, am always satisfied with performance and prints, and never minded the quibbles – yes, they are loud-ish, yes, they have slow lenses (my 28-100 Wide of an almost horse-drawn f/4.6 to 11.9!), yes – the cognoscenti will prefer the faster fixed lens primes without the inevitable failing seals of telescoping zooms, yes, I must always do some sort of contortionist ad hoc brace if I’m zooming, but I never much zoom, preferring the open, living, and easy-breathing c. 28-40 mm space about a subject, persons or objects. Quality ISO 400 color print and all’s good.
It’s in the scarred messenger bag now for chance encounters in a modest personal project; why, toting a nice Stylus/Mju and a freshened Retina IIA and two tiny Canon P&S 10 mp bars of soap in a bag of pens and notebooks and ancient Calcu-Lite meter is no burden at all; we’re ready for anything in the daily rounds.
Perfectly put. The dx coding keeps everything simple. I will thrown this in my bag and see what happens.
I hope that, when you finally get to the center compartment of this bag, you find a circa-1890 brass Petzval lens, or something similarly historic and unique.