Olympus 35 RC

I sold my favourite camera, the Olympus 35 RC, a while ago. The simple reason was that I just wasn't using it anymore. It was sitting there on the shelves gathering dust. I wasn't even shooting film that much anymore. I used to shoot a lot of film; sometimes an entire roll a day on average! Sometimes I'd even shoot two or three rolls if I was reviewing a camera. My record, I think, was 8 rolls in one day while on holiday in Spain!

Film is expensive, and is even more expensive now than ever. A few years ago I found a place to process film for just £1 a roll! I couldn't believe it. I turned out it was a clerical error and the person in charge of charging people didn't understand how film worked, so charged per CD - which was here the film was scanned unto. As you know, you could fit dozens, if not scores, of film rolls on one CD. They must have lost so much money. Unsurprisingly, the service was closed down once a few of us started using it a lot.

Poundland also sold a pretty good film stock for just £1! Basically it was costing me about £1.10 per roll of 36 exposures which was probably the most affordable in the world at the time. I was living the life :)

All those things changed and I was paying closer to £15 per roll, which meant I only shot film when making a camera review for my YouTube channel. The channel was running at a massive loss. Now, two years since my final post on the channel, it has only just broken even. It really was a passion project and a hobby.

I've done this with a few things I own over the past two years. As spring approaches, I will be selling a lot of things again just to clear out space and repurpose the value trapped in some of these things that I no longer use. There's someone else out there that will be eager to buy the stuff and put it to good use. I am sure my 35RC is in loving hands right now, and probably moved on to yet another person.

Peace & Love,

Adé