Olympus Mju ii

Today's slingfilm post is one of those I love most - a lovely discarded camera, cheap (£1 from a junk shop in Kendal), in lovely working order, with an exposed roll of 35mm film inside, and photos salvaged from said film.
The Mju ii was made by Olympus in 1997, and it's a pretty neat little  machine.

The images from the camera are clearly taken quite recently, and appear to me, to be taken in The Lake District near Windermere. I'm pretty sure that the one of the couple is taken from the grounds at Blackwell's Arts & Crafts House overlooking Lake Windermere (I was there quite recently).

So here's a few of the best, and if you recognise anyone and would like to get in touch please do so.

 

 

 

   

 

Plastic Fantastic! (ME-101)

I can tell you next to nothing about this next little camera. I've been carrying it around in the glove compartment of my car for so long I can't even remember where it came from. It's only giveaway is the number ME-101 on the front fascia. It's a very cheaply made, totally plastic camera, plastic lens and everything. I would've overlooked it, but for the fact that I was intrigued to see what results would come from this piece of plastic trash.

I took it on our family holiday to Devon last summer and here's the results. It does have a pleasantly soft look with some heavy masking to one corner in particular, a streak of brightness down the centre and with some (to be expected) light leaks. I've upped the contrast and saturation a tad but not much else.

After the holiday I forgot to remove the film and develop it till just last week, at which point the lens fell off! I did say it was very cheaply made!

The Anteeks (The Anteeeks?)

I'm going slightly off track with today's post, but bear with me.
I spent a fun morning with Mrs Beanphoto today scouring the car boot sales and trash 'n' Treasure fairs in the area.
As well as picking up some nice old flash guns, bulbs, lenses, some tasty looking exposed (but unprocessed) rolls of 120 film, and some unexposed 120 film, some old kodak camera manuals and other stuff (£2 the lot!), I picked up a pile of lovely looking wedding photographs, all postcard size and very sweet (again, £2 the lot). Hidden amongst them was another photo, postcard sized) of a 1960's - looking band. Flipping it over I found the band were called "The Anteeks", and it is signed "To Happy" by all 5 members of the band pictured.
Doing a little research I found the band were better known as "The Anteeeks" (with three e's) and released a double A sided single in 1966.  I checked it out on You Tube - they sounded great!! My research shows they came from Scotland (Ayrshire in fact) and had connections with David Bowie, Deep Purple, Georgie Fame, Alex Harvey and The Everly Brothers! However the line up in the photo I have appears to be different from that listed anywhere, most significantly the lead singer is recorded everywhere I can find as Frank Knapp, and here it appears to be "Linda" (surname unknown). Whether this is pre or post 1966 I know not, but I'm guessing post by those clothes, so maybe they changed their name?
It's a great photo, interesting too as I can see only one other photo of the band anywhere on the web.
Here it is, and also both sides of their fab 1966 'freakbeat' release "Ball and Chain" c/w "I Don't Want You". Check it out!!

And here's the reverse of the photo...