Win some and lose some

As the title suggests. I’ve been using a self refurbished OM-1 lately and it had been working wonderfully, until I got my latest roll developed, and first roll from this camera. All of my flash pictures came out horribly underexposed. Turns out the FP-X switch was set to FP instead of X, so it was firing the flash as if it was a Focal Plane flash instead of a standard flash. I never noticed since I don’t have any FP flashes all my other cameras are permenantly on X. So either I bumped it when refurbishing the camera or it came that way and I didn’t notice.

Bummer.

Anyway, I did get my Sigma 28-70/2.8 test photos done and a few other good photos on the roll. The Sigma 28-70/2.8 is a pretty decent lens, a bit soft wide open, but nothing horrible and it sharpens up quite a bit when you stop it down.

New gear

Early birthday!

Via B&H and my wife I have an early birthday present(s). I picked up a used Sigma 28-70mm f/2.8 which is proving to be fun to play with, a used 1m synch cord for my 285hv flash, a Lumiquest mini softbox and cinch strap, mostly for macro photography. I’m having fun playing with them and hopefully I’ll have some real thoughts (beyond fun) and tests from both (lens and mini softbox) soon.

Swine flu Monday

The whole family has Swine flu this morning. Okay, really I am just making fun of the whole ’scare’. We do all have a cold though, and frankly it stinks, or it might if I could actually smell a thing right now.

I did want to throw up a picture of my Son though. I’ve been slowly, but steadily getting through the back log of negatives for scanning. This one deffinitely turned out better scanned then the lab printed it originally (they cropped in WAY to much).

Zuiko 50mm f/1.4