In the process of clearing out my father's photographic estate(*), I
have come into possession of an Olympus Pen-EE (or is it Pen-ee?). I
recall shooting a couple of rolls of film with it sometime during the
late 70's -- indeed, upon close examination I find that my second roll
has been sitting, fully exposed, in the camera since then -- but
otherwise it hasn't been used since (at least) 1965. It's kind of
cute in a cheesy sort of way, and in pretty good shape cosmetically
(still has a nice leather case), but the meter seems to be more or
less defunct. Thus, the shutter won't fire when the control dial is
set to a film speed (unless you set it to 200 ASA and point it
directly at a 75 watt bulb). It does fire, however, when I set it to
any f-stop. I have two questions, in case anyone knows this camera:
1) What is the camera doing when I choose an aperture setting? Does
it have a fixed shutter speed? If so, what?
2) How do I get rid of this thing? It's too nice to throw away, I
doubt it's worth selling, and it's competing for shelf space with my
socks.
(*) Some fairly odd stuff in there. What do I do with an Edixa 16mm
camera, for instance? Or a silver cigarette lighter engraved with
"Schneider Optik Kreuznach? I don't smoke and I'm not all that
fond of tiny little negatives (even if the Edixa _is_ considerably
cuter than the Olympus).
Thanks,
Steve Schaffner
sschaff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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