I've not updated my self since Nov 2008, and now it is completed.
UPDATE:
As of May 28, 2009, the Little Oly II has arrived in Texas, now it's languishing in the hot Texas Summer sun for a good opportunity, carried around in my truck. I have found a perfect Texas style trinket though
As for the project, now the tough part is over, the next part comes in: collecting the five photos from all participants.
As of April 22, 2009, the Little Oly II is nearing Texas, the end of its globe-trotting journey. Only a couple of hosts left and soon this project will come to an end. But.. let's see if chance doesn't throw another wrench into the gears
As of November 28, 2008, The original Ikkyu-san has been deemed lost somewhere in its journey to cross the Atlantic ocean. Wallace in Germany has graciously forward one of his 35 RC with incredible similarity to the original as the substitute (dubbed Little Oly II). And the project continues in the American continent.
As of July 24, 2008, Ikkyu-san has almost finished his tour in Europe. Ready to cross the pond, do the Atlantic fly-over, etc.
As of Jan 28, 2008, Ikkyu-san almost finished his tour in Asia and ready to head out to Europe. See the update pictures from Herman, Conrad, and Jon at the latest page at this point. Beware, lots of trinkets to behold...
As of Oct 15, 2007, the Little Oly is off to the second tour destination, Sydney, Australia. Don't miss Andrew's account on his week with Oly which can be found at page 5-ish of this thread.
Hi, welcome to the thread tha chronicles the "Little Oly's Big Adventure" project.
This kind of project as a huge source of fun and getting to know each other better.
Key phrase here is "GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER BETTER", which I think could have prevented some of the unpleasantness going on lately.
Now the fun part, what camera?
I'm volunteering my Olympus 35 RC. An all around favorite, tiny, all manual rangefinder with a Tessar-like Zuiko lens (for those of you who don't know).
I got it for free from Rich Silfver, so why not make it more precious by being the (I believe) first RC to travel the 6 Continents. We do have RFFers in Antartica, no?
The basics: Through a sign-up process, we'll come up with a list of participants. If you're a participant, you'll get the camera (no film) from another participant before you on the list. You then select your favorite film type, speed, whatever, and put a roll through the camera following the rules (see below). Then you develop, select (according to the rules below) and scan 5 pictures in the highest resolution available to you and send it to me. Clean up the camera, package it, and ship it to the next participant on the list.
Next, let's cook up some rules, chime-in please, any rules I come up with can be adjusted until it's finalized.
1. 20-ish participants spread around the globe (roughly 4 from each continent). I hope this can help the project to be done within a year, and hopefully we can capture different seasons in different parts of the world this way.
2. Each participant will submit 5 best pictures from their chosen type of film, this will net us 100 photos, perfect to bind it in a photobook (I'll put it together at the end of the project).
3. The 5 pictures submitted must obviously the most interesting of the roll (participants are welcome to spend up to one week and up to 2 rolls with the RC to come up with the best 5).
4. The 5 pictures must be: 1 of you and/or your family, 1 of your daily life (at work or at home), 1 or 2 of the interesting (which is not necessary the same as "famous") things your town/city/village are known for, and 1 or 2 creative/street/people/whatever shots.
5. The camera will ship from me to the first participant and ends with my turn to submit the 5 photos. I will then compile the photos into a book and make it available somehow both electronically and in print.
6. Participants will pay for the shipping cost to the next participant. This is the spirit of the community is built, the receiving participants may help with the shipping cost if it's overseas.
7. The 5 pictures have to be perfectly composed, following all the rules in the book, have the tonality that puts Ansel Adams to shame, and tell a story longer than all HCB's biographies put together.... NOT!!! (but everyone must have fun with it)
8. Each participant must post a report-posting in this thread when he or she is ready to send off the camera to the next participant. The report must contain your experience with the little RC and ONE (repeat: ONE) photo only of the five that your are going to submit. If you want, you may post more photo outside of the five submitted ones. The reason for this rule is to keep the interest high for other participants and spectators as the project progresses.
Some clarifications:
- The camera is all manual, I don't know if the battery works or not, so if you're not comfortable or dislike taking pictures manually, wait for other projects.
- Participants are welcome to use a battery, or fix it if it stopped working
- Participants are encouraged to put stickers on the back, dress it up, hang a cheap/tacky local souvenir on the lug, whatever.
- The self timer lever could be broken, I didn't try it because I'm afraid I'd break it, this is good, so participants need to be creative when taking the self-portrait.
- Although free, the camera is far from being worthless to me. I'm volunteering it for this project because I trust you gals and guys. I'd like to have the camera back with a (hi)story to tell.
Please
Ahoy! participants, Post #82 have some hands on to-do's for you. Please read it when you're not sure what to do.
PS: Curious on who are the participants? see post #76 in this thread.
As of May 28, 2009, the Little Oly II has arrived in Texas, now it's languishing in the hot Texas Summer sun for a good opportunity, carried around in my truck. I have found a perfect Texas style trinket though
As for the project, now the tough part is over, the next part comes in: collecting the five photos from all participants.As of April 22, 2009, the Little Oly II is nearing Texas, the end of its globe-trotting journey. Only a couple of hosts left and soon this project will come to an end. But.. let's see if chance doesn't throw another wrench into the gears
As of November 28, 2008, The original Ikkyu-san has been deemed lost somewhere in its journey to cross the Atlantic ocean. Wallace in Germany has graciously forward one of his 35 RC with incredible similarity to the original as the substitute (dubbed Little Oly II). And the project continues in the American continent.
As of July 24, 2008, Ikkyu-san has almost finished his tour in Europe. Ready to cross the pond, do the Atlantic fly-over, etc.
As of Jan 28, 2008, Ikkyu-san almost finished his tour in Asia and ready to head out to Europe. See the update pictures from Herman, Conrad, and Jon at the latest page at this point. Beware, lots of trinkets to behold...
As of Oct 15, 2007, the Little Oly is off to the second tour destination, Sydney, Australia. Don't miss Andrew's account on his week with Oly which can be found at page 5-ish of this thread.
Hi, welcome to the thread tha chronicles the "Little Oly's Big Adventure" project.
This kind of project as a huge source of fun and getting to know each other better.
Key phrase here is "GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER BETTER", which I think could have prevented some of the unpleasantness going on lately.
Now the fun part, what camera?
I'm volunteering my Olympus 35 RC. An all around favorite, tiny, all manual rangefinder with a Tessar-like Zuiko lens (for those of you who don't know).
I got it for free from Rich Silfver, so why not make it more precious by being the (I believe) first RC to travel the 6 Continents. We do have RFFers in Antartica, no?
The basics: Through a sign-up process, we'll come up with a list of participants. If you're a participant, you'll get the camera (no film) from another participant before you on the list. You then select your favorite film type, speed, whatever, and put a roll through the camera following the rules (see below). Then you develop, select (according to the rules below) and scan 5 pictures in the highest resolution available to you and send it to me. Clean up the camera, package it, and ship it to the next participant on the list.
Next, let's cook up some rules, chime-in please, any rules I come up with can be adjusted until it's finalized.
1. 20-ish participants spread around the globe (roughly 4 from each continent). I hope this can help the project to be done within a year, and hopefully we can capture different seasons in different parts of the world this way.
2. Each participant will submit 5 best pictures from their chosen type of film, this will net us 100 photos, perfect to bind it in a photobook (I'll put it together at the end of the project).
3. The 5 pictures submitted must obviously the most interesting of the roll (participants are welcome to spend up to one week and up to 2 rolls with the RC to come up with the best 5).
4. The 5 pictures must be: 1 of you and/or your family, 1 of your daily life (at work or at home), 1 or 2 of the interesting (which is not necessary the same as "famous") things your town/city/village are known for, and 1 or 2 creative/street/people/whatever shots.
5. The camera will ship from me to the first participant and ends with my turn to submit the 5 photos. I will then compile the photos into a book and make it available somehow both electronically and in print.
6. Participants will pay for the shipping cost to the next participant. This is the spirit of the community is built, the receiving participants may help with the shipping cost if it's overseas.
7. The 5 pictures have to be perfectly composed, following all the rules in the book, have the tonality that puts Ansel Adams to shame, and tell a story longer than all HCB's biographies put together.... NOT!!!
(but everyone must have fun with it)8. Each participant must post a report-posting in this thread when he or she is ready to send off the camera to the next participant. The report must contain your experience with the little RC and ONE (repeat: ONE) photo only of the five that your are going to submit. If you want, you may post more photo outside of the five submitted ones. The reason for this rule is to keep the interest high for other participants and spectators as the project progresses.
Some clarifications:
- The camera is all manual, I don't know if the battery works or not, so if you're not comfortable or dislike taking pictures manually, wait for other projects.
- Participants are welcome to use a battery, or fix it if it stopped working
- Participants are encouraged to put stickers on the back, dress it up, hang a cheap/tacky local souvenir on the lug, whatever.
- The self timer lever could be broken, I didn't try it because I'm afraid I'd break it, this is good, so participants need to be creative when taking the self-portrait.
- Although free, the camera is far from being worthless to me. I'm volunteering it for this project because I trust you gals and guys. I'd like to have the camera back with a (hi)story to tell.
Please
Ahoy! participants, Post #82 have some hands on to-do's for you. Please read it when you're not sure what to do.
PS: Curious on who are the participants? see post #76 in this thread.
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