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Image Title: Winter View from West Point
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| Photographer |
Michael Goldfarb {K:629}
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Camera Model |
vintage 1968 Olympus Pen EES-2 half-frame
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| Categories |
Landscape
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Lens |
30mm f/2.8 (not interchangeable)
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| Uploaded |
7/31/2003 |
Film / Memory Type |
Kodak Royal Gold 400
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892 |
Shutter |
1/200
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Aperture |
probably f/11 or f/16 (can't tel |
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2 |
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Pending
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| About |
Before it died, I got many marvelous pictures out of this old point&shoot half-frame 35mm camera. The Selenium meter (which set the aperture, the shutter speed was fixed) was very accurate, and the lens extremely sharp. With a reasonably fine-grain film, results were virtually indistinguishable from a full-frame negative (yet I got 55 shots on a 24-exposure roll!) What's more, the camera's design was very elegant (a classic 60s look), and its build quality was very good (nearly all metal.) If you ever have a chance to get your hands on one of these old EE-series Pens (especially the EES-2 or -3), be sure to give it a try: it's like the Stylus Epic of 1968!
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There are 2 Comments in 1 Pages
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Mark Beltran
{K:32612} 10/1/2003
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Hi Michael; just thought I come over to look at your half frame images after your informative comments back at the forum. I like the image quality, which is very 1960's-like. Colors are subdued and gentle. A very serene composition. There are a lot of these cameras on ebay right now. I was wondering if the selenium could be replaced on them to make them useable again.
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Michael Goldfarb
{K:629} 10/2/2003
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Thanks, Mark. I was lucky, the Selenium meter on my EES-2 worked *perfectly* - it produced entire rolls of downright perfect negatives! If you're going to get one, you should really try and hold out for one that works, since there are so many of them floating around. If you do end up needing to get one repaired, you can ask John Hermanson at Camtech (though he's primarily an OM guy, he does half-frame repairs too, if he's got the parts), or if you're more adventurous, you can ask for help from the crazy old-camera tinkerers who have a very active forum at Favorite Classics (which is a very useful site about old cameras in general):
http://www.kyphoto.com/classics/
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