I bought an Olympus mju at the Salvation Army bazaar near my house for 300 yen, or about $3. (You can also buy old records there for 200 yen, sometimes there’s good stuff like YMO, Donna Summer or Kelis.) I took it out for a day in Ikebukuro to see what was up. I guess the focus is sometimes way off, and I hadn’t turned the quartz date off, but I think it’s still not a bad deal. Anyway I’ve already replaced it with something better.
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This is Centuria 200, which I think is now actually dead 🙁 It was nice because it was cheap and not super saturated. I have 3 rolls left, then I will most likely have to switch to Fuji, barring the times that I splurge on Portra.
What? Centuria is gone? Maybe I’m getting it confused with a different film which goes for 200yen a roll…
A friend of mine went to Yodobashi and they told him it was dead. I went there and they don’t have any more… That said, I tried to do some searching about “end of centuria” and couldn’t come up with anything, so maybe it’s just that Yodobashi stopped carrying it.
I am thinking of DNP Centuria of course. Is your 200 yen a roll film 36 exposures? A friend told me yesterday he found some 24 exposure rolls for 98 yen in Shibuya somewhere…
I agree with Kyle: there is definitely an air of the 80s about these photos. I really like them. It just goes to show that you needn’t have the most ridiculously overpriced equipment to get the best pictures.
i really like the 2nd from the top (the framing and shadows!)and the 2nd from the bottom! makes me miss my 15-year-old point-n-shoot too. there was a faithfulness in how it always screwed with the image i’d wanted to get.
What kind of film did you use? When I saw the first image, I thought about how the colors and composition look like 1985. Pretty cool camera I’d say.