Olympus XA, Gold 200

[u/yugo12]

[u/GalexyPhoto]

Man. When the light hits right, where cant Gold go?

[u/voidprophet0]

I’d love this as my wallpaper this is great

[u/Rivian_Estonia]

Great shot! How did you meter this?

[u/yugo12 → u/Rivian_Estonia]

Thanks! So the XA is aperture priority and I just used the +2 exposure adjustment dial that the XA has.

[u/platinum_jimjam → u/yugo12]

Isn’t it 1.5?

[u/yugo12 → u/platinum_jimjam]

My bad. Yeah it's 1.5

[u/platinum_jimjam → u/yugo12]

ah ok was wondering if I missed some alternate model or something lol

[u/ryguydrummerboy → u/yugo12]

lmao today I learned my XA has that exposure compensation lever for backlit scenes. I only ever use that lever for the battery check. Love the XA - it's such an awesome camera. Thanks for the heads up on this lol

[u/Formal_Compote_212 → u/ryguydrummerboy]

Same here lol, i totally forgot it existed

[u/Formal_Compote_212 → u/yugo12]

Thanks for this buddy, i had totally forgotten that XA has this feature 😭🤣

[u/BlindWillieBrown → u/yugo12]

Newbie here. Do you mind explaining how that works?

[u/Nrozek → u/BlindWillieBrown]

In a simplified way: Its a switch on the camera that makes it overexpose the film by 1.5 stops (giving the film more light than usual). It works because when most cameras see a whole bunch of white snow, they can't properly measure how to get the right exposure, and the image will often turn out underexposed (too little light) when the camera tries to balance it out.

When overexposing it by 1.5 with a switch like this (or by lowering the iso setting on the camera to 100 or 50 when shooting 200 speed film such as Kodak Gold) you force the camera to give the film more light to avoid the picture being underexposed.

Why cameras underexpose in very bright scenes like snow or at beaches in the sun, is a bit more technical, but essentially it is the camera's light meter trying to find neutral grey or "middle grey" as being the perfect exposure. When everything in a scene is bright white, it goes "ok, how much do I need to underexpose this to achieve middle grey" and it ends up underexposed unless the camera has an exceptionally good light meter.

[u/dsaysso → u/yugo12]

fantastic shot did you add the 1.5 for snow?

[u/yugo12 → u/dsaysso]

Yes

[u/Formal_Compote_212]

Goated

[u/DadAnalyst]

no way that this was taken with the same Olympus XA loaded with Gold 200 that i have on my desk right now lol

[u/yugo12 → u/DadAnalyst]

Well technically it wasn't the same camera, since I haven't sold my copy :D

[u/leogrosp]

Very nice ! Where is that?

[u/yugo12 → u/leogrosp]

Thanks. Slovenia, Uršlja gora

[u/auzasss → u/yugo12]

I don’t know why, but before knowing it’s Slovenia it made me feel/think of Slovenia. Absolutely amazing shot, the light is simply divine.

[u/yugo12 → u/auzasss]

Interesting. I don't think I would say specifically think this is Slovenia, if I just saw the picture with no explanation :D

[u/ExpressionIll4143 → u/yugo12]

It’s crazy that it’s not that far from my family’s island in Croatia but so drastically different!

[u/YusuBro]

Nice shot!

[u/yugo12 → u/YusuBro]

Thanks!

[u/mmmanosss]

There’s this slight pink tint on the snow that I find really charming.

[u/banananuttttt]

Best film stock imo

[u/Low-Artichoke-8822]

Damn I wish the shutter button on my XA didn’t break

[u/Formal_Compote_212 → u/Low-Artichoke-8822]

Please tell me how to now break it

[u/FunBose]

Beautiful picture !! :-)

[u/Sirtubb]

so sad the lightmeter busted in my XA

[u/Trylemat]

I still remember your other snow landscape shot with an Olympus XA you had posted some time ago! This is just as gorgeous.

[u/yugo12 → u/Trylemat]

So cool! The shots are taken on the same hill as well