Hi. Happy new year by the way. It´s 2010!
I got a OLYMPUS OM-2 with a 50mm, f/1.8 glass on it. I really like this camera. Also I got tired of waiting for my scans, so I bought a scanner. A CANON CanoScan 8800f. It´s a good scanner so far but it´s very slow. So I traded time for money. But I think it was a good decision because I really like film. I can´t really explain, but taking pictures with film is different. I need more time for the whole thing. Buying film, loading the camera, developing (not myself), scanning (now myself) and some correction like cropping the negative scans some colour correction and (hopefully) a good hand for sharpening and dust removing. That takes time. But its the same with all the analog stuff like vinyl or tube amplifiers and so on. It´s a different feeling and you have somehow the feeling to get something real, something, that is not 0 and 1. So, here are some test shots with the Olympus on cheap 400 ISO colourfilm I bought at ROSSMANN for 0,99 Euros scanned with my new Canon 8800f.

Mannheim underground

Stinky place…

Abendakademie Mannheim. A place with style

The city. And some garbage. The light went down, shot at 1.8
Focus practicing….

Some stills. Stadthaus

Snow in Mannheim

Parked the car and went down. Late at night after a gig about 3:00 o´clock.
Still focus practicing….

It was before the last picture. The place were I played the gig.

Walk to the city

Still very cold.

In the car

Rosengarten Mannheim

Somebody lost his hair.

Oriental lounge Rosengarten

An indian dance performance.

Perfect jacked. There is no wrong weather, only the wrong clothes!

She didn´t walk, she hovered.

What I see in my viewfinder of the OM-2 is more than the picture I get.
So you can´t see the words on the top of the  poster. In german: Singet recht, sonst
wird mir schlecht. It´s the german search of the next superstar. Let´s get
famous. It has nothing to do with music!!