The Aveiro Yacht Club with the Olympus Camedia C-100

The Aveiro Yacht Club with the Olympus Camedia C-100

It was a nice day on Monday, and since I had to pick up some negatives anyway we decided to go to Aveiro for lunch. We're in the middle of the Shitty Camera Challenge at the moment, so I decided that instead of my new camera/lens combination, the Panasonic GF1 mirrorless camera and 20mm f1.7 pancake lens, I would take the wonderfully glitchy little Olympus Camedia C-100 digital camera. The sensor is failing in the Camedia and I reckon that it's overexposing by around 10 stops. I recently picked up a cheap Hama variable ND filter and thought I would take that, too.

Before lunch I took a walk to the marina where I took some photographs of Aveiro Yacht Club and surrounding buildings. The sky was filled with wispy clouds, and although the day was clear, it being winter the sun was a little weak. It has been a long time since I've been to the Yacht Club and there have been quite a few changes. A couple of buildings have been demolished, including a wonderful little water tower, which was one of the first things I photographed with the Diana back in 2021, when I started using film again.

There are still plenty of lovely buildings, though, and the walls are covered in the same graffiti and street art as from several years before. Using the Hama variable ND filter was really easy with this camera but unfortunately, at its maximum setting there is a prominent X-effect. This is common with variable ND filters, and occurs when the two polarising filters make an angle of roughly 90 degrees to each other. As a result a lot of the images were not as 'normal' looking (for this camera) as I would have liked, but we had a lovely day, a good wander around Aveiro and, to top it all, my negatives came out great.

If you are on Mastodon, you can now follow this blog directly. Just go to Mastodon and follow the 'Snapshot' WordPress account at @keithdevereux.wordpress.com@keithdevereux.wordpress.com. All new posts will be automatically updated to your timeline.

#ShittyCameraChallenge #ShittyDigital, Olympus, #Digicam, Camedia, #DigitalCamera, #Glitchy,