Olympus 35 RC – My favorite compact camera

Olympus 35RC Rangefinder Camera – Shot on Mamiya RZ ProII 67 with 65mm lens (Fuji Provia 400)

Olympus 35 RC is a great little camera I bought for few dollars on a flea market few years back

it’s one of the smallest 35 mm rangefinder with all manual settings plus automatic aperture settings. Cameraquest.com writes:

“The RC is packed with so many features,  it  reads like a photographer’s wish list, easily winning the “Most features in the Smallest Size” for this camera class”

and it truly is packed with feature: small, great lens, leaf shutter lens sync at all speed, shutterspeed and aperture visible in viewfinder, AE exposure lock, bright viewfinder, great with flash, off switch, battery test, pc connection, quiet shutter, self timer.

and, you get 40 frames on 36 exposure roll!!!

one downside: It use outdated Mercury 625 batteries but can easily be modified for modern 1.5V

now I’m just starting to wish Olympus will redesign this little beauty with digital sensor. the new pen is to plastic and has no optical viewfinder like Leica M9 and Fuji X-100

Olympus 35 RC viewfinder view

more at http://www.kenrockwell.com/olympus/35rc.htm

The camera lens mug – hell yeah

for a coffee addict like me, this has to be it

Lensmug from Photojojo

Photojojo got some other great ideas for my Santa Claus like Fishey converter for mobile phones,  Bootle cap tripod, photoshop fridge magnets and lot more