While I've mostly focused on pinhole work over the past couple weeks the Olympus 35RC also rode along in a jacket pocket.
The film in the Olympus was Arista Ultra Edu 200, which I shot at 100 ASA with the intention of development in PMK Pyro for the best tonalities and grain.
The roll of Arista included a series of hipshots made on a busy Saturday morning in Old Town.
The diminutive size and quiet shutter of the Olympus 35RC make it the ideal camera for street work, but it would have been better in this instance to have loaded some faster film which allows better depth of field and faster motion stopping shutter speeds. In the past my go-to film for this task was Tri-X. I'm thinking now that it would be interesting to try pushing the Arista 200 in development to 400 ASA or faster, perhaps in HC110.
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All of those Japanese made point and shoot 35mm cameras at one time had really good lenses. I have a Canonet and a Minolta Hi-matic 7 something and both have 6 element 4 group lenses. They are the equivalent of my Nikon or Pentax normal lenses. You are doing good photography with them Mike. Keep it up.
Thank you, and I certainly agree with your praise of the Japanese lenses of that period. I found a Hi-Matic 7S in a trift store and took it home knowing nothing about the camera. It turned out to be in perfect working condition, and the Rokkor lens can't be beat.
The little 35RC was a perfect travel and keep-with-you-at-all-times camera. A good friend used one while hiking all through the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The Olympus Trip 35 was a similar philosophy, but it also featured the selenium cell auto exposure system that engaged one of two shutter speeds.
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