Picture(s) of the day....

[CitroJim]

The problem with the Olympus is resolved. It appears to have been the USB connection with the laptop. Tried it in the other laptop and it works fine.

That's excellent news Steve

Not so excellent on the flytipping. I hope that will soon be resolved...

[momag46]

I’ve looked closely at that photo and can’t see any flies, probably because of all the grain with the 400ASA film

[CitroJim]

I’ve looked closely at that photo and can’t see any flies, probably because of all the grain with the 400ASA film

If it's the apple and raspberry photos Maurice, that's digital 400ASA so no grain to be seen, even at high magnifications. That's the difference between analogue (film) and digital ASA What you may see are likely to be jpeg artifacts as a result of the image compression the forum does to uploaded photos.

If you look at my black and white images, the grain you see is more evident although given they were scanned using a Lidl third-aisle digital negative scanner (an absolutely brilliant device for the price paid) the grain may be more down to noise and jpeg artifacts as a result of the scanning process.

I assess grain on my negs using a strong magnifying glass...

[myglaren]

Try pushing it to 3200 ASA. Grain you can pick up with tweezers.

Now I'm going to have to investigate monochrome and grain on the Olympus. Daughter used to take a lot of sepia shots with it.

[momag46]

You’re all to techy for me I’m talking FILM, not this new fangled stuff. You’re not making any allowance for my age!

[myglaren]

Not so excellent on the flytipping. I hope that will soon be resolved...

Looks as though the fence builders/landscapers who dumped it there are here to shift it.

Ed: Been out and see now they haven't shifted anything.

[CitroJim]

Try pushing it to 3200 ASA. Grain you can pick up with tweezers.

Love it More grain than in a bag of flour...

You’re all to techy for me I’m talking FILM, not this new fangled stuff. You’re not making any allowance for my age!

Indeed, there's a world of difference between digital and film. The units (shutter speed, aperture and ASA - now called ISO) are all called the same but there's where any similarity ends...

You'd be amazed at high-end digital cameras nowadays Maurice - multi-mode metering, multi-mode auto-focus - mine has 65 auto-focus modes - and a whole host of other features and gizmos but, at the end of the day, it does not make you a good photographer. You can do technically excellent rubbish with them.

However sophisticated cameras get, the quality of the photo thus taken is still absolutely 100% determined by the person pressing the shutter release.

That will never change although AI is trying hard and falling flat on its face in doing so. AI generated crap is now termed 'AI Slop' - a great description for it

And as for age - that's just a number

[myglaren]

Have to say that the E-500 manual is very long and baffling and I can never remember any of it.
Sadly it is used mainly as a point 'n shoot, same with the Nikon and Fuji cameras.

I did set it up to take a self portrait for the new driving licence but couldn't get the remote to work, did take some but they were rubbish, used a photo booth in the end.
But then forgot to rest it, took some photo's of the squished Mazda with it that all came out blue.

Must try harder.

[mickthemaverick]

You shouldn't admit to producing blue films in public Steve!

[momag46]

In my prime, a long time ago, I used an Olympus OM1n that was fully manual and a OM4ti that was auto & manual exposure, both with manual focus. The OM4 used centre weighted and multi spot exposure systems with the light being read through the lens, VERY advanced at the time.
Yes Jim, quality of the image was down to the person behind the camera (or in the darkroom).
I was in a camera club were a number of people were buying very expensive cameras but using cheap lenses, they’d done better buying a cheap camera and expensive lenses!

[mickthemaverick]

Just to get a picture back on this thread!! Coming up in Bedford auction tomorrow a contender for the developing Volvo section of the FCF

Details here

[CitroJim]

Despite a good covering in straw to protect it from the cold, my Xantia subframe crop is not doing at all well this season

[Gibbo2286]

It's amazing just what good results those older point and shoot cameras could give Eric Would love to see some of them ;

Forgot about this Jim but I've just popped a few in the scanner, all on one page taken in Egypt 1954 the top ones are where a ship on the canal crashed into and knocked the railway bridge off its mountings, just within walking distance from our workshop.

[CitroJim]

That's excellent Eric Would love to see them scanned a bit larger

[Gibbo2286]

Just one for now Jim.