Bleedinggumsmurphy

Perhaps joing the weekly challenge group would be a help as it gives you a theme to look for: Street Photography Challenge

The Ricoh GR is the perfect choice for you as it has the 28mm wide lens you want and is more pocketable than anything else mentioned imo. Plus it was made for the street and to be used one handed for candid shots. Great color and some cool photo style modes. Really easy to use. If you are OK with no viewfinder buy it.

Never a bag. Always one pocketable camera. With settings done before heading out on one as I have to disable all the buttons on my Panasonic GM5, may just take the Olympus 9mm f8 bodycap fisheye in the other pocket (or vice versa with a pancake lens) with spare battery. Or the Ricoh Gr, with battery. Or the Olympus XA2, i'lI revert to my little iPhone SE with the Filmborn app if run out of film. I wish the GM5 has Fuji color but alas it doesnt, I choose pocketability over color for now, although the Ricoh GR colors are great and it is pocketable, so I dont see myself owning a Fuji like many (perhaps most) street photographers I see have.

This Android app is free and free from ads. It works pretty well for B&W even using my old Android device's 8mp camera. I am wondering if others use it and manage to get better results from a newer smartphone with a better camera on board. With my device, which is 4 years old, the results aren't as good as with a proper scanner, especially at the sides, but I could live with that if the center was near perfect. If you haven't used it I suggest you try it out if you want a scanner alternative. The maker is robably doing it for a hobby and seems vy friendly and open to suggestions. My Samsung tablet focuses very close, so I guess YMMV depending how close your smarthone can focus. My iPhone doesnt focus close.

I should have said I have a M43 camera so it is a 2x crop. Is that better or worse? Thanks.

Would this lens be suitable for taking photos of film negatives instead of scanning them?

Today it went fine to 36. False alarm. Maybe I was pressing too hard yesterday or something.

Obviously I put a 36mm roll in :rolleyes::p Battery is fine, brand new. It seemed fine empty, maybe I put an extra 1cm of film in when loading yesterday; doesn't seem enough to stop at 30. Stuck a new roll in and it was so much fun yesterday, I will probably blaze through it again. Then will see if it is a proper issue.

Just been out with my new Olympus XA2. Wow, I love this camera, I was in street photography heaven getting up close with people in Chinatown for the New Year Celebrations. But the camera stopped taking photos at 30. I just want to check if it is normal, there is a fix or if my model is broke? Thank you.

Thank you all for the replies. I will see how the photos look from first 2 roles in 2 days. The developers said they were good (not sure if they just meant the composition though). Will probably just stick to Sunny 16, then switch to an XA2. Bought another battery today but it didnt fit, it's turning out to be more trouble than its worth. I am not the practical, DIY type and the camera feels horrible in my small hands. A curved pocketable camera will suit me better as long as the image quality is not much worse. Edit: just Googled the XA2 battery and it takes LR44 which is what I bought a pack of last week. Perfect. Problem solved.:) The Canon can go. I might swap it for a broken couple of cameras if possible, to use as ornaments as I love the look of it. I would like a nice broken Rollei 35SE and maybe a Canon AE where I could use the lens elsewhere.

That led me to this one which looks like it may fit. But only 1.5Vhttp://tbn http://tbn Do many of you guys expose manually e.g. Sunny 16 rule? If so I will forget all this battery nonsense as it is quite easy to remeber the settings.

Anyone know if there is a solution? I bought LR44 batteries I saw recommended somewhere but that must have been for the QLIII. The battery is tiny in the big deep hole which is completely different to the one on the GIII and packing with foil didnt work. It seems like all discussion is regarding the GIII. I am not a fan of the camera ergonomics so its not the end of the world if there is no battery, or Sunny 16 may turn out good enough.

Fixed it ☺ 2 people's first advice was not to force it, which sounded correct as this is my first film camera. After jiggling the bits around I gave the lever and forceful push and that did it. Probably just stuck due to age and needs lubeing up a bit. Thanks for the quick response guys, especially the manual ☺

I received the camera the other day and just completed my first roll of film. Under the camera there is a button to press which releases the film so that it can be rewound and removed. However, now that I am trying to add a fresh roll of film that button is still pressed in, the lever wont go forward to load the film and the shutter wont work. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix it? I am unsure if it is a newbie error (there was no manual with the camera), or if the film release button is stuck and/or broken. I have spent a while searching forjms, Goigle and Youtube but cant find any information. Most posts are about the newer GIII version. Thank you.