![]() ![]() One thing to note is the camera only has two shutter speeds, which are 1/40 and 1/200. If there isn’t enough light a red flag will pop up in the viewfinder and the shutter button will be locked and no image taken. The top plate of the Pen EE3 is clean and uncluttered When using the ISO setting, the aperture and shutter speed are decided by the light coming into the selenium meter, so the camera becomes a fully automatic point-and-shoot. Moving back to the control ring, the ISO can be set from 25 to 400. Unlike most 35mm cameras the default in the viewfinder is portrait, so the camera needs to be turned 90° to shoot landscape. The back has the film advance wheel, viewfinder eyepiece and the latch for the hinged back. ![]() At the base is the rewind button release and a tripod mount. Behind this sits the control ring to set ISO, aperture and flash, and the PC-sync flash socket. The front has a 28mm lens surrounded by the selenium meter. There are very few controls on the camera, on the top plate are the rewind knob, shutter button, flash hot shoe and the film counter. The Pen EE3 is dwarfed by even the smallest modern flash This is a small camera weighing in at just 330g but it has a solid construction with an all-metal body. After reading my post, Andrew Bartram offered me a loan of one of his Olympus Pen EE3s. Originally I bought a Reto/Kodak H35 camera but was not impressed with the build quality, although the images were OK. I did a piece for Kosmo Foto recently about bulk loading film in order to save money, but another option is to shoot with a half-frame camera. One camera I never considered was an Olympus Pen – that is until recently. I’m still shooting today with these same cameras. I got an OM-10 in 1980, an XA3 in 1985 and in 1995 I bought my wife the Mju Zoom 105. KF article top The Olympus Pen EE3, one of the classic 35mm half frame cameras (All pics: George Griffin) ![]()
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