The reactions feature I wrote for my site a few days back was broken on mobile (and as it turns out, desktop too) due to a bug I accidentally introduced! Whoops! Should be fixed now, though, hehe!

As I mentioned in a previous post, I finally bought myself a full-featured film camera; an Olympus OM-10! And I’ve absolutely been loving using it; the weight and heft of a camera of this age feels incredible, and everything about the mechanisms feels great. The lens I got with it is the much-loved Zuiko 50mm f1.8, and it has been an absolute pleasure to use. Here are some of my favourite shots from this camera, freshly back from the lab! Shot on Kodak UltraMax 400 and Kodak Portra 160, check ‘em out!

I’ve added post reactions to my blog posts! If you read the full version of a post on my site, you’ll see these cheerful little beans at the bottom. You can choose one to react to a post with, and your reaction will be added to the count. You can try it out below!

Whew! It’s been pretty busy recently for me. Headlines of Melon Life include: Bean to Me at Steam Next Fest, Bean to Me at local game events, a ramp-up in my freelancing schedule, some upcoming meetings with academics… phew! It feels great though, and I feel like I’m accomplishing a bunch of goals.

It’s film lab day! Two rolls developed this time; there was a third roll that I happened upon, stuck inside an early 2000s point-and-shoot in a box of my childhood stuff. Sadly, the film was totally fogged and nothing turned out at all. The lab very kindly did not charge me the usual price for a roll for that one, which is nice! As for the camera itself, I tested it with a fresh roll anyway, and got a few fun shots out of it. There’s nothing today from the OM-10, not just yet - stay tuned for that one. Only weird cameras today! Check ‘em out!