Some photos from a day shooting a Kew Gardens in London back in August. This was a two camera trip, first was my OM-5 and the second was an Olympus OM-1n. That’s the film OM-1 from the 1970s, not the digital one.
Photos below are film first, digital second.
The OM-1n was loaded with Kodak Gold 200 and I used the 28/2.8 and 50/1.8 Olympus lenses. I didn’t bother tracking the metadata for every shot, but mostly it was at F5.6 or F8, and 1/60s or above. Processing and DSLR scanning by Zone Imaging and then reversed in FilmLab Pro and dust touch-up back in DxO Photolab.
The OM-5 had the Olympus 14-45/4 lens.
I’m not really a film guy and I only shoot it occasionally. The thing about film is that it’s objectively terrible. The resolution is bad, the dynamic range is bad, the sensitivity is bad. It’s slow, inconvenient, unreliable and expensive.
But… I do have to admit there’s something about it both in the process and the results. I prefer the film versions of the family under tree, and the looking into the doorway. The OM-5 was better for the large white building front-on and angle pictures and the riot of colour in the close-up flowerbed.