23 June, 2025
Olympus OM707 – The Autofocus Underdog
The Olympus OM707 (OM77 in North America) is one of a slew of new futuristic autofocus SLRs that burst onto the market in the mid-1980s. It’s a great-looking camera with a...
This is a short review of the Olympus iS-3000 zoom lens SLR (aka iS-1 an L-1), for which I shot an expired roll of Fuji Reala 100. In hindsight I should’ve shot with a new...
29 July, 2024
Olympus OM2n – Best of Both Worlds?
As with most of my short reviews of cameras that I own or have owned in the past, I am going to discuss here how I personally see and understand this Olympus OM2n. Of course, th...
10 September, 2023
Olympus OM – 42 years, Full Circle Back to Where I Started
Back in January 1981, I was in my final year at university, and after a Christmas holiday spent doing an incredibly boring job, I had more than the usual student grant money in ...
6 July, 2023
Olympus OM1 – Return of a Classic
In order for you to understand why this camera is so important to me, I’ll have to take you back in the mid-90s. It shan’t be a long journey, I promise. For those of you who wer...
William Eugene Smith, better known as W Eugene Smith is one of The Greats.
One of the greatest photographers of all time, a Magnum photographer famous mostly for his reportage ...
In the late summer of 2020 I started off a film challenge over on Dyxum. I planned to shoot a whole bunch of cameras including an OM camera. Now, my own OM-1, which is an early ...
19 August, 2021
Olympus OM10 – It’s Not You, It’s Me – By Jay Ridsdale
Purchased for around £50 complete with a Miranda 28-70mm zoom lens, I never loved the Olympus OM10 and by the time we parted company I doubt it was all that fond of me. The came...