It’s been a while since my last post to this blog, and September has been a busy month. There will be a couple of blogs soon to follow this one. Since the last post on the site, I have been busy with work (shooting school photos of students) and using my spare time to visit family, going on photo adventures and spending a weekend in Copenhagen (with a lot of photography involved) with my wife.

I will loop back to the Copenhagen trip, and the photo adventures in future blogs along the way, when I have a bit more free time on hand. I have been neglecting scanning as well, quite a bit, so there has been a mountain of negatives waiting to get scanned at home.

I wanted to break the silence and get a blog up, to those who find themselves wandering on to my blog.

Lets start.

The Pentax Espio 115, a huge, bulky, heavy, loud, not pocketable, and ugly panoramic beast of a point-and-shoot camera. That pretty much sums it all up. If you remove the panoramic-mode out of the equation, this would never reserve a spot on my shelve, but there it is. Right next to my Fujifilm Fotonex, and my continuous search for a cheap alternative when it comes to shooting panoramic photos.

The Espio 115, was kindly gifted to me - and at first glance, the camera didn’t really speak to me, but after the first test roll, it completely won me over. There is just something about the panoramic ratio, that hits me every time. Like a frame from your favorite movie frozen in time.

But why does the panoramic mode matter? Couldn’t I just crop the image afterwards? Well yes, and no. Of course the easiest option would be to just crop a regular 35mm frame afterwards, making all my 35mm cameras capable to produce panoramic shots. But with a simple switch the Espio does all that in camera, by covering up the rest of the frame. It gives me the opportunity to see the panoramic ratio in the viewfinder when I am framing my subjects, which really helps.

I really enjoy the shots I have been getting so far, even though my experience with the Espio has been short-lived. I recently took it on a hiking trip to Sweden this summer, and I turns out that the electronic inside didn’t like heavy rain for several hours at all. So I am currently looking for a replacement - because I am not at all done with the Espio 115 yet.

*Gold 200, an old Lada in Lindholm - Nørresundby*

If you have any questions, feel free to write down below.

Pentax Espio 115

Summer of ‘35

The forgotten format