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Post by olroy2044 on Apr 14, 2009 0:43:45 GMT -5
Picked up a 12X roll of a drugstore 400 film from Walgreen's. Following John's idea, set the XA2 at 200 and banged away. MUCH better!    Mural on wall of store in old Oroville  What do you think? Roy |
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Post by John Parry on Apr 14, 2009 16:50:19 GMT -5
So definitely working along the right lines - no sign of that graininess now. Looks to me as though there's a difference in exposure between the left and right extremes, and the centre though (could just be the scenes I suppose, but I suspect not).
If the thing has had a CLA, I'd get it back to them. Point out the discrepancies, and also tell them about the film speed anomaly. They'll probably tell you something along the lines of it being like that before, but at the very least they should have told you about the problems when they returned it to you...
Regards - John
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Post by Randy on Apr 14, 2009 21:10:06 GMT -5
Looks much better now.
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Post by olroy2044 on Apr 15, 2009 0:11:14 GMT -5
John and Randy: Thanks for the comments. John, I thought maybe I was seeing things, or possibly lens flare. The camera has not had a CLA, I've only replaced seals. The lens is certainly sharp enough when the exposure is in the ball park. I'll exercises the shutter some more and see if it straightens out. If not, a CLA will be in the works. Roy
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Post by PeterW on Apr 15, 2009 4:41:51 GMT -5
These are much better, Roy.
I agree with John that the exposure in the centre seems more than the exposure in the edges and corners.
I noticed this in the older picture I played with in PS.
PeterW
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Post by John Parry on Apr 15, 2009 17:58:03 GMT -5
Roy,
I'm not familiar with the XA2 - I was just commenting from the appearance of your pictures. Peter's observation that the darkening surrounds the centre made me wonder if it had a lazy helical shutter (I was thinking of a leaf shutter, where you'd expect laziness to be a darkening at one end of the shot). So I looked it up on Google. Still not sure of the shutter type, although as it's described as a 'between-lens' it probably is helical. But a couple of entries on the first Google page to come up may save you spending money on that CLA.
"If you want the use characteristics of a Lomo without any of the hassles get an Olympus XA2 from ebay for much less money."
and:
"In order to understand my fascination with the LOMO LC-A, it helps to know about the camera that started me thinking differently about photography."
We had a few posters on here who posted Lomo (and Helga) pictures with exactly the same vignetting characteristics as yours (I knew they reminded me of something!). So if this is common, just set your film speed lower, and try to use those features creatively rather than trying to get the camera to operate as a 'normal' one. I remember I liked quite a few of those posted shots - must have appealed to my distorted view of the world!
Regards - John
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Post by olroy2044 on Apr 15, 2009 20:11:11 GMT -5
John, I'm not sure what a helical shutter is. Looking from the back of the lens, the shutter looks like it is somewhat similar to the one in the Pentax Auto 110, in that it looks as if the shutter and aperture are one unit. The opening is not round, but appears to be shaped like an arrowhead pointing to the right side of the camera, looking from the back. The size of the arrowhead changes with the light. With no "B" setting on the camera, it is hard to get a good look. Thanks, Roy
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