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Rooftops in colour and black and white

fishyfisharcade

For whatever reason, I took tow very similar shots for the same location atop the old town city wall in Dubrovnik. The colour version with my Canon Sure Shot Z135, and the black and white shot with my trusty Olympus Trip 35.

I like them both, but err towards the monochrome version, I think.

This time in colour
Rooftops

Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Olympus Trip 35 & Fomapan 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°

Taken 29 May 2024.

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5 thoughts on “Rooftops in colour and black and white”

  1. I usually bring two different cameras, one with color, one with black and white. I usually take different pictures on these cameras, concentrating on texture/patterns with b&w and vibrancy with color. But like you, sometimes I’ll take the same pic with both to see later on what I like better. Often I like them both, but get something different out of each one.

    With your two photos above, I like the color one better. There’s something about terra-cotta roofs that do it for me. I might like the b&w one if it was more contrasty, but I know that Foma leans more towards soft tones vs. contrast.

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      1. I liked the lens on my Pen EES-2, which I believe is the same as on the Trip 35. Perhaps one of these days if I can find a Trip 35 in good shape at a reasonable price I’ll get one, but a quick perusal of eBay doesn’t give me much hope.

        Olympus really had a knack for developing “weird” niche cameras like the Trip 35, Pen, XA, etc. No other Japanese company came close. Check out Canon’s online museum: They definitely had their share of weird cameras, but I don’t think I’ve come across any love for their EXEE/EX Auto SLRs with permanently attached lens elements–in fact, I didn’t even knew they existed until I perused the museum. Or the Dial, which generally is only mentioned when someone wants to talk about bad camera design.

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      2. I’ve not used any of the more unusual Olympus models. I have the Trip 35, plus a trio of OM SLRs (an OM-1N, OM-2N, and an OM-10) and I used to own one of the Superzoom point and shoots.

        The Trip 35 was the first analog camera I bought when I decided I wanted to start shooting film again, and I was fortunate to get it at a low price. I have another, which was my dad’s, but the auto-exposure mechanism isn’t working in that one.

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      3. I don’t necessarily mean “weird” to mean “unusual”, more the iconoclastic categories Olympus either invented and/or went on to define. Half-frame was a thing before the Pen series, but Olympus took it and ran with it, and within a couple years most of the other Japanese camera makers got in on the action. (Nikon and Pentax being the glaring exceptions since they both had an SLR only strategy through the 60’s and 70’s.) The Trip 35, basically a Pen EES-2 converted to full-frame, defined the burgeoning “point and shoot” market, as it was a camera that took great pictures yet demanded little from the photographer. Olympus redefined SLR size with the OM series. And the XA series paved the way for ultracompact 35mm cameras that weren’t fussy like the Rollei 35 or Minox.

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