I picked up this Olympus Infinity Stylus recently for a buck at a thrift store. It was the first time in a long while that I have come across such a bargain. There are a few scuffs on the case, but the battery was good and the camera looked and sounded like it was going to make pictures.
Just two more things needed -- some film and a subject. As luck would have it, a friend showed up at my house with a box of expired film including two rolls of Kodak BW400CN, a chromogenic black and white film that can be processed in C-41 chemistry. I used to shoot a lot of the stuff before Kodak discontinued making it a couple years ago.
Teddy, the neighbor's cat, volunteered modeling services. She spends much of her day lounging on our deck, so the gig was not a big imposition.
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Wow, what a find!
And a cat that poses....
Hard to beat that combo!
The auto-focus and auto-exposure make the little mju a good choice for capturing the often furtive expressions of cats. I've found three of these cameras in thrift stores over the year and have made a lot of pictures with them. I don't really need two, so this one is available to anyone who likes cats and old film cameras.
Hi Mike. I wish I had friends like that. Nice find. What a fine feline. Thanks for posting.
Best wishes,
Jon
I used to have one and I loved it. It was so advanced for its time. Eventually it broke or died (I don't remember which) and then was stolen in a break-in (HA HA). It had very nice color rendition. It had the immediacy like a modern-day point-and-shoot back in the late 70's and early 80's. A photographer named Eve Arnold shot with it for a coffee table book called "In China" about then, just as the nation re-opened to Westerners.
Hi Mike, if that camera is still available, I'd be interested in trading you some film for it.
becky
You got it, Becky.
Susan,
That's a great little nugget of info about Eve Arnold using the mju. I'm going to look for that book.
Thanks!
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