The iron giant
by Yo_Spiff

Comment by bvy:
Fabulous. The plane is headed straight for its head! Did you plan this or was it serendipity?

Watch your step (cw)
by Yo_Spiff

Comment by Nadine_Vb:
Beautiful colours of the coaches. On most of the photographs, this colour doesn't come out that beautiful.
All parts of the photograph are well detailed. Did you use some HDR on it? The ceiling makes me think this, but I'm not sure.
- If I'm not mistaken I see number 1808 behind 209?

A little TOO cheap, I suppose.
by Yo_Spiff

Comment by MelonMusketeer:
I see what looks like a little diagram at the upper left, just over the film path? Is that directions for loading it? That's a strange camera. Even if you unspool the film and put it on the left, how would you know how far to advance it for the next shot?
Can't wait to see the pix. : )
On second thought, maybe it had power wind to a spool on the left that's missing, and the knurled knob is for rewinding the film into the cartridge when it is exposed. I don't see an advance lever of any kind. Look in the top of the pocket on the left for a drive for a take up spool. Maybe you can make one from the spool out of a roll of film if it's missing.


Message edited by author 2010-04-04 03:38:02.

Oympus IS-1
by Yo_Spiff

Comment by MelonMusketeer:
I was pretty much away from shooting film when these came out, so never even paid attention to what was going on at that time. I loved my old all manual Canon Tx and the couple of lenses that I used with it. It's cool to see how the technology evolved.

Suzy Snapshot
by Yo_Spiff

Comment by MelonMusketeer:
Lots of ha ha's ! That thing is cute. I can picture a granddaughter going happily about the house "shooting" everything with it.

Oympus IS-1
by Yo_Spiff

Comment by Yo_Spiff:

Originally posted by krnodil: what's its longest focal length/optical zoom?

135mm at the long end, the wide end is 35mm.

Pentax Auto 110
by Yo_Spiff

Comment by one2one:
Unbelievable that they would invest so much in a format like the 110. I guess with good glass you can get some good detail but nothing can be printed over 5x7 without grain, and it's an ugly grain at that with fat blotches. I used to work in a lab developing film.

Suzy Snapshot
by Yo_Spiff

Comment by one2one:

Originally posted by krnodil: Goodness, that's colorful. Yep, colorful... Now I'm left wondering why someone would design a flashlight to look like a camera...

Ask the guy who designed a camera to look like a flashlight. :)

Oympus IS-1
by Yo_Spiff

Comment by one2one:
Nice find Steve. I remember always thinking how weird this looked back then.

Oympus IS-1
by Yo_Spiff

Comment by krnodil:
Interesting camera - what's its longest focal length/optical zoom?