The story of a revived
Olympus PEN-D film camera
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Many years ago I bought an half frame Olympus PEN-D film camera which had a
very bright (1:1,9), 32mm lens. I shot a lot of pictures with it, and many were
nice ones, because I have a bent for wideangle portraying.
One day I jumped from an Hercules C119 (it wasn't a suicide attempt...), with the Olympus
camera on my hands, shot some pictures, but soon after, the parachute lines went garbled
and I began to zip down to the earth like a dead weight, so I had no alternative
but stop shooting pictures to try to save my beloved skin. In those frantic
moments my PEN-D fell from an height of roughly 200 metres.
When I touched ground, savely, I asked my squad to search the area with me until
we
found the camera half stuck in the wet, lush, green, high weeds. With my
survival knife I dug it out and made a picture of the neat hole with the very
same camera.
You know what? Days after, after having developed the film, someone wanted to buy
it at a premium price, and, regrettely, I
did. On november 5th, 2009 - the new digital camera Olympus
E-P2 has taken over the controls. Ah! If it only had inside a Foveon
sensor, would have been the ultimate pocketable camera.





Olympus PEN-D hole
