Touch and shoot

I take my expanding stock of Yashica TLRs out for a bijou shootette this afternoon and bring the Olympus along as well in case there is something worth pointing a macro lens at. I use up three rolls of film, which means I am in for an evening of tension, sweating, swearing and frustration as I try and get the fuckers to load into a processing tank. I also find a small flower with some even smaller flies buzzing around.

I spend several minutes trying to move the focus point around the Olympus screen to line up with the ever-moving flies; without success. Then I remember a feature of the E-M5 whereby I can touch the screen and the camera will focus on that point and take a shot. So I do that and am rewarded with several in-focus images, of which this is my favourite:

Quite a difference from the slow, methodical approach required with the Yashica; cameras have come a long way in 45 years.

Comments 🔗

2013-07-18 | BlogDaz says

That was remarkably lifelike, it’s amazing what damage you can do a monitor with a rolled up newspaper.

2013-07-18 | Kevin Moore says

You’ve obviously been swatting up on the OM-D manual, clever boy. Nice image have a gold star.