Olympus Stylus Epic
9 December 2009
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I recently purchased an Olympus Stylus Epic off ebay for $80 or so. For those of you unfamiliar with this, it’s a now out-of-service compact film camera that houses a fixed 35mm f/2.8 lens. It’s one of the few compact cameras that has a fast wide-normal lens attached. It’s amazing how many people recognise this camera when I show it to them. It seems everyone knows a parent, uncle, friend, etc who owned one. Here’s a shot with it from last Friday. I’ll be reviewing this little camera and performing an interesting comparison of how it stacks up to today’s technology in the next couple of weeks.
Olympus Stylus Epic + Kodak T-MAX 100. No processing on this. Just scanned and resized for web.
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I have one of these (well, it is the zoom model) and it takes excellent pictures, although I haven’t used it for a long time since I gave it to my mother and she refuses to give it back. I did find it quite frustrating at times since it has no manual controls and an extremely hyperactive flash. This is a very popular point and shoot camera among film rangefinder folks.
I think there may be a zoom model laying around my house somewhere too. The manual controls are really the thing it misses – if they’d added aperture mode, it would have been unbeatable.
I managed to pick up an Olympus XA in my 30-toy-camera haul the other day. Need to put batteries in it and see if that works too.
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