Digicams: the Olympus Camedia C-7070 part I (Patreon)

Here‘s your next digicam in the line-up; the Olympus Camedia C-7070

This is a solide little bulky compact camera, the distinct look of this one only made me want to buy it. I hesitated because it wasn’t as cheap as the cyber-shot, I was able to drop it down to 70$, it was listed at 125$. Already broke my first rule here, it’s much more money than what I initially wanted to pay for these camera, but I dunno something told me to get it anyway. (It‘s a disease I tell you) 

For a while now I wanted to do street photography Vivan Maier style, meaning looking through a viewfinder top down, not locking eyes with anybody. So I did it with this camera, it has a flip screen that goes all the way to the other side, perfect for a top-down view or for vlogging ! Well sorta perfect, it’s a very small screen, 1.8’’, seems like the standard back then. 

This one is from 2005, the image quality is pretty good, must have been the shit back then, however it’s so slow, writing the pictures takes forever, add the image review on top of that, somehow I didn’t find the toggle off in the menu. Which means I only could take one shot per moment let’s say, felt like shooting film lol.

Another great CCD censor, however I keep shooting black & white jpgs here, not really testing the great colors these censors are supposed to deliver. I dunno but there’s something about shooting monochrome with these cameras, I love how they come out, and I love me some bnw street photography.

Also the focal length goes from 27-110mm equivalent, which is awesome, for a few of those photos I went full telephoto, something I never do. The ability to be quite wide all up to 110mm is nice to have for a “compact“ camera.

There’s also a full manual mode where you can control aperture and shutter speed, clunky controls but it’s 2005 after all.

Seriously I like these images very much, not giving a damn about megapixels, doing this project is refreshing for me, it makes me shoot more cameras I never tried before and at the same time making me think differently shooting with contrainst that seem to help me more then not. Something inside me wishes I could take this project to a format more like youtube, but I just can’t do it, I am not able to talk to a camera, even less in public.

So for now it goes down over here on Patreon, I hope this content is fun for a few of you at least, I know it’s fun for me though, it helps me unwind and clears my head from the clouds visiting more often lately.

Look for part II of these photos soon and thanks for reading.