Olympus 35RC - A classic rangefinder film compact

Why not buy a used Olympus 35RC? The Olympus with its razor-sharp 42mm 2.8 lens and  modern film will give far better resolution than most digital cameras. Camerabase, on Edinburgh's Morningside Road is an ideal shop to start a search for classic film cameras.

If you shot one film a week and had it processed and scanned it would take many weeks to match the price of a digital. New digitals are worse than new cars when it comes to depreciation.

Nikon FM2N

The first FM2N I snapped up, and fitted with this bashed 50mm/1.4, was a chrome model. I parted with £175 for that camera in 1992 at Leeds Photovisual in Birmingham.
It was my main camera for the next four years of building up my photojournalism. I used it for sports pictures published in a myriad of local newspapers as I created a portfolio.
In 2010 I returned to mainly using film for my own work and alternated between my F100 and Rolleiflex. But both are weighty compared to the sublime FM2N.
A month ago I spotted this mint condition black FM2N in Cameratiks, Morningside Road, Edinburgh. Patrick, the proprietor added this neat Nikon strap and again I spent £175.
The first rolls of Tri-X from it were great as you'd expect from a virtually unused machine.
Hillwalking last weekend I handed it to a stranger to take mine and Geraldine's picture,
"What a lovely sound," he said as the shutter went off.

Flash and The Social Photographer

Tweed Green Snow in Peebles

Mrs Davey walks across Tweed Green on Wednesday afternoon. There is a brief respite in the snow fall and we have some blue sky.

This year snow has come about a month earlier than in 2009 when it was the week before Christmas.

I took this on Geraldine's D200 with the 18-55mm lens and a polariser. Settings were Iso 400, f16 1/250th sec.

Confetti

Geraldine & Max at Floors Horse Trials

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