Wallace Koopmans Artlog

You might think with a lens branded with Schneider Kreuznach it would be a decent performer but I think Samsung used the engineering budget to try and cram as many electronic tricks as they could into it.   How often have you thought,  I wish my camera would take a picture and then zoom out on it’s own and take another and then another?  Me either.  Or to take a picture and then turn itself off and back on again from 10 to 60 seconds in ten second increments or 10 to 60 minutes in 10 min. increments ,and take another and so on until you run out of film.  Hey wait a minute these are actually the kind of features I like to exploit maybe I’m being too hasty.   Part of the problem with this camera and really all the longer focal length zooms from this era is that the lenses are super slow at the long end.  In the Samsung’s case it’s an f stop of 12.2 so hand holding is going to be a challenge.  For example using 200 ISO film on an overcast day with a light level of say 14EV (thats a typical day around here)  an aperture of f12.2 would require a shutter speed somewhere around 1/60 second which isn’t really enough to hold a 140mm lens steady.  Even using 400 ISO film isn’t enough.  While writing this I’ve  sold myself on trying it again with some better 400 film and staying closer to the 38mm end of the lens.

Despite the fact that I shoot lots of digital images and that sharing and posting them is even easier than doing so with film,, many of them remain on my computer unposted and unseen. It can be difficult to remember what images I have already used and there is some inevitable overlap between my film and digital pictures but here are some pictures of windows from the past few months.

They are taken with various cameras (Pentax K-7,Pentax Q,Nikon P7000)

I believe I’ve said enough about the Olympus (1) Stylus(2) Epic(3) in the past so here come the pictures. It’s Ektar 100 if your wondering about the film.