Welcome!

Hoping someone out there will indeed read this blog :) !

I just wanted to introduce myself and clearly state what the intents of this blog will be.

I'm an amateur photographer who started to take pictures regularly back at the end of 2000, when I was 25.

The first 'real' camera I had the chance to try was my father's glorious (by its ways) Olympus OM-20 (aka OM-G in the American market) equipped with its standard, Made in Japan (you know what I'm talking about...) 50mm f/1.8 and a couple of other third-party lenses.

From then on, after having the chance to appreciate the easiness of use and the ergonomy of the OM-20, I decided to permanently take it off my father drawer and keep it with me many times.

My first attempts at SLR photography where rather ingenuous, although quite satisfactory for the time.

Soon my initial ingenuity went decreasing, leading me to a less 'amateurish' approach towards photography: then I found that the OM-20 was not enough for what I was searching to do. In particular, I felt that its rather simplified (and practically uncoupled) manual metering mode was too limiting.

The search for the ultimate picture-taking tool had started, leading me to collect informations, opinions and resources on the Internet.

I decided that I wanted to get stuck in the Olympus OM world as its concept was close to my ideal of camera, that is a tool that should be able to do what I told it to.

During the years I got more and more involved into everything photographic, learning to develop and print my own BW pictures, and collecting - and ultimately using, as that was the funniest part - many Olympus cameras (OM4-Ti, OM2-Sp, OM-1n, 35-SP, XA) and lenses, which are now my faithful companions everytime I feel an itch to depict reality the way I see it.

The outbreak of the digital era saw both drawbacks and advantages: prices of used equipment (the only one I could afford, especially after Olympus decided to put an end to the Olympus OM production) went somehow down, although decent films, chemicals and BW paper got overpriced and rarer to find.

But here I am, still standing on the thin edge of what many people think of as a futile and utterly surpassed remnant of the past (ye good ol' film photography).

This blog will help me record my thoughts on photography, allowing me to share my works and modest knowledge on Olympus camera and lenses.

Hope to add some more content soon: in the meantime feel free to browse my Flickr photostream by clicking on the widget in the right column of this blog.

That's all folks! (for the moment :)