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Monday, January 09, 2017

Good Luck, Good Friend, Good Camera, and a cat

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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8 comments:

  1. astrobeckJanuary 11, 2017 at 12:13:00 AM MST

    Wow, what a find!
    And a cat that poses....
    Hard to beat that combo!

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  2. MikeJanuary 11, 2017 at 6:50:00 AM MST

    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.

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  3. jon campoJanuary 11, 2017 at 4:53:00 PM MST

    Hi Mike. I wish I had friends like that. Nice find. What a fine feline. Thanks for posting.
    Best wishes,
    Jon

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  4. shunter62January 14, 2017 at 6:14:00 PM MST

    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.

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  5. astrobeckJanuary 15, 2017 at 12:45:00 AM MST

    Hi Mike, if that camera is still available, I'd be interested in trading you some film for it.

    becky

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  6. MikeJanuary 15, 2017 at 10:53:00 AM MST

    You got it, Becky.

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  7. MikeJanuary 15, 2017 at 10:55:00 AM MST

    Susan,
    That's a great little nugget of info about Eve Arnold using the mju. I'm going to look for that book.

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