Wallace Koopmans Artlog

The Olympus Trip is a very interesting camera for several reasons. It does not require a battery because it has a selenium meter around the lens that powers all the automatic metering functions. It’s a zone focus camera so you need to estimate the distance to your subject. These two things together make a camera that is very good at being always ready. There is no worrying about exposure, it’s out of your control, and if you pre-focus to a set distance then it’s easy to snap a picture the moment you want without any delays. It’s also relatively small and a nice design that the newer mirror-less Olympus camera’s owe a nod to. It has a 40mm lens that is a nice compromise of a focal length not to wide and not to long, just right. There is a lot of information about this camera if you just ask the the all knowing internet, so I won’t cover that but I just wanted to reiterate how easy it is to use and the results from it can be decent.

This is my first post of a painting from my iPad. It’s another instrument in my artistic toolbox and is a fun way of sketching. I had the opportunity to spend some time getting acquainted with some software, (Procreate) and my Jot Pro stylus. I mention the stylus specifically because it’s so superior to a pudgy finger or any other stylus I’ve seen.

One great aspect of using this combination is that you can go from a simple sketch to a full painting depending on the effort you want to put in. A limitation though is the final resolution of 1920×1408

Will you be my BF forever?  Ah 26mm it seems at times I will use almost anything that takes a wide angle shot

“The Prima BF-10 is so compact and lightweight you won’t think twice about taking it with you, whether it’s down to the beach when you’re on holiday, or on a night out in town ” 

It’s lightweight alright  it’s all plastic even the metal bit’s are really plastic in disguise.  There are a few other things to note as well, it has the sort of distortion that would make a hipster blush and despite having some sort of coating on the lens it washes out the image if any stray light reaches the lens.  I’m embracing these characteristics and spinning them into a positive because 26mm is such a unique focal length for a point and shoot.

This image more closely represents the reality of this birds life than if I took an image of it in a tree with a blurry background, obscuring it’s true environment.  There is nothing wrong with taking pictures of animals while creating a visual environment that we would wish for them, but it would be a mistake to think that that is the same thing as them having one.  We do virtually the same thing when we look at a scene even without a camera.  No one wants to admit that the road they are on exists while they look up at the mountain in front of them.