OLY 35 RC
Rangefinder
Showing posts with label Rangefinder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rangefinder. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Let's do a traveling camera project! - OLY 35 RC: The Completed Map
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.
Monday, February 02, 2009
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Fotosketches: Eye on Reflection
Eye on Reflection.
Camera: OLY 35RC Rangefinder
Film : Kodak Ultaramax 400
Location: Lake Titiwangsa, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Fotosketches: Sepohon Kayu...
Masjid Bandar Kinrara.
Camera: OLY 35RC Rangefinder
Film : Fuji ISO 400
Location : Bandar Kinrara, Selangor DE, Malaya.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Fotosketches: ...Horse Stable Kuda...
International Stable-Kuda.
Camera:Canonet QL17 Rangefinder
Date: 24 Nov 2007
Event: FEI07 KL Grand Prix
Film: Fujifilm 400
Location: Bukit Jalil, Malaya
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Fotosketches: Subliminal twin..
Subliminal twin.
Venue: KLCC
Camera : OLY 35RC Rangefinder
Film: Fujifilm 400
Project : Lil' Oly Travel Adventure
Sketched by:
MODMANTFOTO.COM
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Fotosketches: Bahau
Camera: Olympus 35RC Rangefinder
Film: Fujifilm ISO400
Location: Bahau,N9
Coloured by:
MODMANTFOTO.COM
Monday, December 17, 2007
Fotosketches: Tongah Banda Kolumpo.
KLCC Twin Towers
Venue:Kuala Lumpur City Center
Camera: Olympus 35RC Rangefinder
Film : Fuji Film 400
Project: Lil' Oly Travel Adventure.
Naked in daylight
MODMANTFOTO.COM
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Fotosketches: Power & Grace
Camera : Canonet GIII QL17
Film : Kodak 400
Event: FEI 2007 KL Grand Prix
Date: 24 November 2007
Venue : Indoor Arena, National Stadium Bukit Jalil, Malaysia
Monday, November 12, 2007
Fotosketches: Ketenangan...
Date : 15 October 2007
Camera: OLY 35SP
Lens: Indisputable Sharp Zuiko G
Film: Kodak BW400 CN
Exposure: F4 with Flash
Location: Masjid Kubang Semang, Bukit Mertajam, Malaya.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Fotosketches: Tragedi Kedai Mamak
Foto: Orang ramai hanya sibuk menayang muka menunjuk belas, tetapi sudah terlewat. 'Cash register' dan duit syiling bertaburan dijalan raya.
Tempat: Selayang
Masa: 2.00 AM
Tarikh : 19.09.2007
Kamera: Oly 35SP
Film: Fuji Neopan B&W ISO 400
Selayang, Selangor:- Satu rompakan nekad dan bersenjata telah berlaku disebuah kedai mamak 24 jam. Seorang perompak yang bersenjatakan parang dengan tenang menetak seorang juruwang sambil melarikan sebuah 'cash register' dicelah-celah kedai yang dipenuhi pelanggan.
Orang ramai yang ada tergamam dan ada juga yang berlari terpekik meminta tolong dengan kerusi meja terbalik. Tiada seorang pun yang berani menghalang perompak gila yang berparang. Penulis yang berada tidak jauh dari tempat kejadian bergegas mencapai kamera tetapi sudah terlewat apabila perompak itu berjaya melarikan diri dengan sebuah motosikal. Polis hanya tiba lebih kurang 10 minit setelah kejadian itu berakhir.
Apa yang penulis pasti ialah juruwang tersebut cedera parah ditetak dibahu, dan darah berceceran dimerata lantai kedai. Seperti biasa, CCTV yang ada hanya sebagai perhiasan, cuma untuk menakutkan pencuri kecil-kecilan.
Jelas, malang tidak berbau, apabila kejadian rompakan seperti ini berlaku, tiada siapa yang dapat membantu; tidak dari polis mahupun orang ramai, melainkan 'selamat' dengan kehendakNya.
Ia boleh mengenai pada sesiapa sahaja dan pada bila-bila masa tanpa amaran.
Jadi, orang ramai perlu sedar tentang keperluan pertahanan diri dikala keadaan mendesak seperti rompakan diatas.
Jangan bila tehantuk baru nak tengadah...
Ini bukan berita terkini, tapi hanya jurnal dan pemerhatian..
Anyway, no point asking whose to blame.
If you gonna die, die with your boots on!
pesanan masyarakat dari:
Herman Abdullah / MODMANTFOTO.COM
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Fotosketches - Oly at Macdonald's
Oly at Macdonald's (Old man at Macdonald's)
Camera : Oly 35Sp Rangefinder
Film : Kodak BW400CN
a touch
by modmantfoto.com
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Fotosketches - The Merdeka Man Silhouette
Date: 24th August 2007
Title : Merdeka Silhoutte
Place : Merdeka Square,Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
Description : 50th Merdeka Day Preparation Night.
Camera : Oly 35SP
Film : Kodak BW400CN
The Merdeka Man, will he be here freed, at the same time on the 24th August 2057?
Maybe his kid...
by modmantfoto.com
Thursday, August 30, 2007
OLY 35SP for a classic documentary works.
All shots were taken using Olympus 35SP on fully manual and with flashmatic mode.
Images shown were right from the camera.
Film : Expired Fuji Superia ASA 200
Location : Putrajaya, Malaysia.
Digital intervention: film scanning/analog to digital conversion.
OLY 35SP is now fit for works.
cheers.
Owner, Modmantfoto.com
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
OLY 35SP Rangefinder - Back To Life.
OLYMPUS 35SP RangeFinder was once, a testament to the state of the art technology developed by OLYMPUS in circa 60s-70s.
With it razor sharp G Zuiko (with 7 elements) , F 1:1.7, 42mm fixed lens, make it remains as one of the best lens in the field, up to date.
Its square body with the black and chrome casing surely give a distinctive vintage look to those who preferred classic manual rangefinder to the modern Digital SLR.
It is probably not a very good idea to use this camera commercially, as film workflow is too costly nowadays.
For some people, manual rangefinder will make them think more before clicking, the usability of the final output is rather critical - not a playful thing, it is a total 'art of seeing' manifestation, that is the beauty of it.
To me, it's an honour to bring this magnificent machine back to life...
Modmantfoto.com
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