The Film Retriever

I am going to echo here something that I have already mentioned elsewhere on my blog. It is always, with a great surprise that I realise that the cameras/lenses that I always avoided, end up becoming my favourite ones. The Zuiko lenses are one of them (the Minoltas being the other ones). These few months that I ended up using the Olympus OM-1n with a couple of Zuikos i fell completely in love with them. Different production stages Now this is something that causes a bit of confusion to me. What i am going to write here is my understanding of what i read on the net. Please email me if you think that something is incorrect and i will try to set it straight. It seems that there are three different production stages with Zuiko lenses: a) The early, silver-nosed ones: Identifiable by the silver colour at the edge of the lens, on the place where you mount the filters. These lenses are single coated and some people on the net tend to avoid them as they ...

I don't know why I always avoided Olympuses. My brother had an OM-10 which was by all means a beautiful camera; it's just that I never got warmed up to them. I had twice the chance to get an OM-1 cheap and twice I shied away. A couple of months ago, a senior gentleman was selling this beauty for £20 on my local car-boot sale, so I went ahead and bought it. He told me that he had bought it in the late 70's and has seen very little use. That must be true, the camera doesn't even display any wear next to the strap lugs and in the battery chamber, there was an original mercury cell, still giving accurate exposure readings. As always, if you want to read everything about the background of this camera and have a comprehensive guide about its different functions and accessories, MIR's website is the place to start. I will limit my review here on my experience shooting a couple of films with it. First of all, I have to say that the OM-1n is a much ...