This week's portraits were never intended for this film project, but these are the only images I have left from a different camera, so this is it. I've reached the last of my film portraits until I'm able to go out into the world again. I've also saved my favorite camera for last. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The Olympus OM2n was the first film camera I ever bought (aside from disposable point and shoots), and I bought it in a Target parking lot in July 2012, from a guy I met on Craigslist. It was a shady deal, but a great camera, if you could look past its flaws. This particular camera had some issues with a slow shutter, faulty meter, randomly drained batteries, and bad light seals, so I ended up selling it the next year, but I've regretted it ever since, and I've been trying to find a replacement. Finally, just last year, I bought a second OM2n, this time from John Hermanson in NY, a former Olympus tech who's been working on these cameras longer than I've been alive. This second camera is in pristine condition, and it is without a doubt my favorite film camera to work with, and possibly my favorite camera, period. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The OM2n is compact, full-featured, robust, well-built, reliable, beautiful, and ergonomic. In short, it is perfect. Every other camera I shoot with is compared to this one, and almost none of them are its equal. When it was released in 1975, it was widely touted by most prominent photography publications and magazines as the most technically superior SLR camera in the world. But without the big name recognition of companies like Nikon and Canon, it was overlooked by many professionals of the time. The only little teeny tiny minor issue that I could even possibly have with this camera is that it requires batteries to operate. But the batteries are cheap and easy to find in any drug store or supermarket, so I don't have a huge issue with this (I also have the OM2's big brother, the OM1n which does NOT require batteries to work, just in case). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The picture above of the camera is from the sale of my original OM2n in 2013, not my current model. And the scratches on the negatives are from a faulty developer (me), not the camera. (at Wooster, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_TWiTmA9JS/?igshid=wqjtbdr9bkm7