Justfolk

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Posted: 02 Sep 2015


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My XA died but it left me a gift

My XA died but it left me a gift
I have owned almost a dozen Olympus XAs over the past twenty years.
They are brilliant little machines but they are susceptible to massive
and catastrophic failures. I have kept on buying ones that seemed to
work despite their faults. This one was a very good little camera for
about six years until I had it with me a month ago on a trip out of
town. Its shutter gave up the ghost and only allowed itself to do
fifteen- and thirty-second shots. I didn't know that fact for some
time, so I took a few dozen pictures with the handicap. The negative
frames are all very close to black as a result.

However, there are traces of images in several, and here is one. I like it.

This was expired Kodak 200 film. According to the negative's edge markings, 200-8 is the formulation; that places it around 2007, I think.

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 Justfolk
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There were a half dozen of us, and a dog, on a long empty beach. I stepped a few metres out into the surf and looked back on them to take this picture. Not quite desert, but deserted.
9 years ago.
 Justfolk
Justfolk club
I like alternative readings!
9 years ago.

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