Olympus 50mm OM Archives

5 Frames with an Olympus OM-10 and Ilford HP5 Plus – By Sam Larson

By Sam Larson / July 14, 2020 / 5 frames with... / 6 Comments

My Olympus OM-10 was a mistake. I hadn’t owned an SLR since I claimed my dad’s OM-2 for a high school photography class. I’d bought an Olympus 35RC a couple months prior and loved the form factor and quirky rangefinder vibe, but I wanted something more authoritative, with options for different lenses and the sharp-sounding smack of a mirror. Since that old OM-2 went to the great scrap heap in the sky at the hands of a sibling I found myself searching Ebay.

That time I shot freelensing with a Camedia D-435 and an Olympus OM 50mm – by Charles Higham

By Charles Higham / July 5, 2019 / That time I shot with a... / 2 Comments

At the bottom of John Scott’s fun gaffa tape pinhole lens post is Hamish’s invitation for contributors to a new series entitled “That time I shot with a…”. Essentially, any sort of unusual photographic experiment, failed or not, is considered. Well, it did remind me I had tried some crude freelensing last year using a basic Olympus 5.1 megapixel point-and-shoot camera from 2005, and a standard Olympus OM 50mm manual lens.

5 Frames With an Olympus OM10 and F.Zuiko 50mm 1.8 & Expired Fuji Superia Xtra – By Gavin Bain

By GavinBain / February 2, 2019 / 5 frames with... / 2 Comments

When I started getting serious about photography, and more specifically shooting film, my dad found some rolls at his old work. He came home one day with a box of Fujifilm Superia Xtra 400. About 10 rolls all up. This obviously meant that I didn’t need to buy more film for a while and being younger at the time, this sat well with me. So I shot half of the rolls pretty quickly.