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Infrared and channel swapping with the Olympus Camedia C-3030.

Much to my better judgement I ordered a couple of shitty cameras recently. One was an Olympus Camedia C-3030, a 3,3MP wonder released in January 2000. Apparently it has some muck in the battery chamber and won’t connect to USB. However, it does work (and that’s the main thing). It uses SmartMedia cards and the package includes a couple of these. Fortunately I have a card reader that will read…

Since the results of the#CameraChallenge Will not be posted until next week, I thought it would be a good excuse to spend a bit of time recording the architecture of Oiã.  I headed to a few buildings around the railway station as I thought it would really benefit from the infrared treatment, particularly digital aerochromes, and they came out rather well.  All images were taken with the…

After several false starts I finally got to Aveiro last week for the May 2023 #CameraChallenge on Twitter. The previous day I had a plan and a camera to execute that plan, then at the last minute I changed my mind and went in a completely different direction. The theme for this month is architecture, and as you could pick any camera to use in the Challenge I decided I would would go…

I picked up another of those dodgy digital cameras, the type that back in the day cost upwards of 400€ but nowadays you can pick up for chump change. This time it’s the Pentax X70. It’s what they used to call a ‘bridge’ camera – it looks like an SLR but the lens is fixed and it has features closer to those of a compact camera. The Pentax X70 is pretty good for its time, when it was released in…

I recently took part in the March 2023 Twitter #CameraChallenge organised by Jason Avery. The rules for that Challenge were to use a film camera for street photography costing $20 or less. I chose to use my Canon Epoca, and quite frankly it was a bust, with negatives so thin that the lab could barely find any images to scan. In April, the Challenge is a little broader, with the choice of camera…