Is it worth buying a battery?

[Godfrey]

I rendered four of the photos I made with the Olympus Infinity Stylus Zoom DLX, cleaning up what I could of the light leak and embedded dirt damage. Two in this post, two in the next due to constraints of RFF server...

Cypress Wall - Santa Clara 2025
Olympus Infinity Stylus Zoom DLX
Ilford HP5


Schlumberger - Santa Clara 2025
Olympus Infinity Stylus Zoom DLX
Ilford HP5​

enjoy! G

 

[Godfrey]

Picket Fence, House - Santa Clara 2025
Olympus Infinity Stylus Zoom DLX
Ilford HP5


Slide & Children - Santa Clara 2025
Olympus Infinity Stylus Zoom DLX
Ilford HP5
​

enjoy! G

 

[JohnGellings]

For me, I wouldn't bother. Film isn't cheap and I'd rather put it inside something better.

 

[Dralowid]

Godfrey's Olympus seems to perform well though I'm sure most of it is down to the photographer!

The battery has arrived and the camera comes alive with plenty of unhealthy sounding whirrings.

I had planned to use some long since expired Fuji 400cn and rate it 200.

Manual ISO setting on the TW2 is a rigmarole involving part depressing the shutter release and scrolling through numbers with the flash mode button. However the instructions tell me that it forgets the settings when turned off (or after 25 seconds) and one has go through it all again.

Then I thought of 'hacking' the DX code on the cassette. Easily done and OK for setting the camera to 200 but the lab I send films to has a processing machine that reads the codes (don't they all?) which would then be not what I want to achieve.

So...SHOCK HORROR! I will buy a new fresh film for the TW2 and continue to use up my collection of well expired film in my Leica.

More anon