Downtown on Film
I'd been shooting on a roll of Kodak Gold 200 for a while now — and with 72 exposures on a 36-frame roll (half-frame format), it was taking some time to finish. So I grabbed it and my 1961 Olympus Pen EE and headed downtown, mostly with the goal of putting the camera through its paces and getting through the roll.
The Pen EE is a small, fully mechanical camera — no batteries, no autofocus, no zoom. Just a 28mm f/3.5 Zuiko lens and a selenium cell light meter that does its thing. You point it at something more than six feet away and press the shutter. That's it. It was built in 1961, which makes it about the same age as some of the buildings I was walking past.
I normally shoot on my Canon R6, and I mostly gravitate toward landscapes and portraits. Street photography is newer territory for me. There's something different about walking through a city with a 65-year-old camera that doesn't care about your sensor size or megapixel count. It just asks you to see what's there.
