Lubin Studio

A weekend full of rain finally gave way to sunshine Sunday afternoon, so I dashed out with my new camera. Every day driving home I pass the Lubin Studio buildings sandwiched between the Betzwood side of Valley Forge Park and the new Riverside apartments and remind myself that it'd be a great place to shoot. It certainly was, and kept me busy for an hour and a half.

The site is reclaimed industrial land, save for a few 10-foot diameter spherical tanks that have been left to rust. Across the street is the Lubin Studio, the stucco portion of which dates to the early 1900's, when it was a state of the art movie studio. O'Neill has refurbished it and added a modern addition to the front. It's a great space; I can't believe it hasn't been leased yet.

The camera did well, though the display does get a bit washed out in the sun and is tough to view in odd positions. Though I didn't use it much, the swivel display on my old Pentax was occasionally handy. The side near the controls is also a fingerprint magnet! The battery drops off a pretty steep cliff once the warning indicator comes on; it was good for about 150 shots and 1.5 hours of the camera being on pretty much continuously. Most of these shots looked good straight off the camera, though I made adjustments to the color tone. I was too early for the golden evening light, so some have been "warmified", and a few cast to black and white.

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