Vivitar @ Bugis

This stop: Bugis Street
Date: 25 Oct 08 (Sat)
Time: 2pm - 5pm
Attendees: Ed and Cindy

2pm: First stop: Bugis Street

Purvis street... Love it! Nice food is lurking on this street too (e.g. Miss Clarity Cafe, Chicken Rice and Thai Food)... Located in the photo is my favourite chicken rice and bread . Go check it out when free. They too sell decent coffee...

Exteriors of the Thai Food restaurant along Purvis street. Another of our favourite haunt.

Exteriors of the national library.. The spiral effect...

Along the corridor of one of a posh restaurant. The reflection on the table is cool...

A star like sunlight... Credits to Ed... A church...

Started posing outside the church... We did not even realise there was a church near Bugis..

Posing in front of a shinning stone outside the church... Love it.. Has the fairy tale effect... Initally I was still afraid that there will be overexposure and photos will turn out blur.

A fire-like effect... It was actually just clouds above it.

HDB flats along Bugis...

Simply love it..

Colourful buildings. Love the clarity othe photos..

End: OG... Rather please that we managed to capture the bubbles which an Uncle was playing.. (One of the tactics of selling the bubble gun)

After the shoot, we chirply went to Triple D @ Burlington Square to process our photos... Rather pleased with Vivitar... Wonder where our next stop will be...

Diana on 35mm film

Applause, Ed's method of loading the 35mm film works!

But our photos turned out to have quite severe light leakage.

Cause: Did not cover the red spot at the back and did not seal the backing of Diana
Point of action: To seal up the backing and the red spot with black masking tape.

Processing is also much more expensive.
Cost $15/roll as compared to $8/35mm roll and $13/120mm at Triple D.

Results
Anyway, a total of 15 photos has been developed and only 3 of them turn out to be likeable. Some are blurred, some are overexposed and some are just gone...

Taken at night at one of the Thai shops in Chinatown.
















Double exposed photo in the night hours of Chinatown.



















This photos turn out rather pretty.. Serenity. Ed was posing in front of a mirror.

Objectifs to the rescue..

Our supersampler is alive and kicking well....
Thanks to Objectifs, who did a 1 for 1 exchange for our Supersampler...

Ed and I were so excited that we started supersampler rolling again. Now, I cant wait for the photos to be developed... Yesterday Ed and I went for lomo kicks at Bugis. After snapping for about 2.5 hours, we entrusted Triple D with 3 rolls of films (for processing).

Total Damage till date (since early Oct 08): A total of $500 spent and 7 rolls of film taken in just 2 weeks...

We definitely practice the spirit of lomo... "Dont think just shoot" .
Who can thus blame us for being so crazy over it... Oh ya, and did I mention that we have a total of 4 lomo cameras and have new ideas for our upcoming photos ??? Stay tuned...

Supersampler... Ruined...

One word to describe my feeling... Disappointed!

Our whole roll of film has a scratch planted across all the photos.

Cause: Our supersampler is handicapped. A metal plate within the interior of SS has came off. We thus used our instinct and fix it. Naturally, we did not manage to fix it.. Sob...














My sis and mum lomo-ing too.. How hip can they be...















Me at the Real run.. Photo would have been nicer without the scratch. Love the vast road... Changi is one of my favourite route...

New Balance Real Run

The ultimate cross terrain run! Being the avid event chasers, Cindy and I joined the 15km run which includes of 4km of mud, 10.4km of runway, and 0.6km of sands trail.

Armed with the new Vivitar and Super Sampler, we reached Changi Coast Road at about 630. There's another hour till the event, so we just fooled around with our new toy.



































































Cindy is getting ready to run.













Mud trail is the first challenge. Luckily it never rain on that day.













This cone signified the end of mud trail and the start of the road.














The drink station at the start of the road.














The runway got boring after a while; this is the view we looked at for almost 6km.













So we looked at the sky sometimes.













Finally, something different, the sand trail, the 15km challenge was coming to an end soon.













The sand trail was pretty fun, too bad it was only 0.6km. We were again out of the park and hitting the road.













The last stretch to go home. I have no idea how did the ghost image of the arrow sign manage to slip into the photo.

I was very anxious to see the result of the Vivitar, as the pictures that I saw on various site were all pretty exciting. The first roll didn't disappoint me. Although I wasn't really satisfied when I first saw the photos, the second time I looked at it, I started to find these pictures interesting, with the unexpected light stream shining in certain pictures, and the soft vignettes at the edges.

It might be psychological, like how parents always think their baby looked best.

If you don't like them, I am going to hypnotize you.

These pictures are nice.
These pictures are nice.
These pictures are nice.

Our new toy - Camera model kit

Chance upon this model kit at Sun Tec level 2... Inbox... Cost $35...

Rather excited and curious so we bought it...

The camera in a box. Got the last piece from the shop...














The interiors of the box... Looks rather complicated...













After 2hrs... It's done!














The back of it...














Wonder if it really works!! Will snap some photos and see the effect too.

Vivitar is here

The postman was here 5 minutes ago, with our new toy.















That's everything in the package: a camera, a piece of paper and the plastic.

Another new camera on the way - Vivitar

Guess what, I just placed an order for this following camera. Cost S$25.3
Hope the photos will turn out pretty pretty too...
Expect to arrive this coming Saturday... I am just so excited...

Second roll of Diana

Loading was definitely much easier with experience and with Kodak Ektachrome costing $7/roll. Looking forward to it as the Uncle from Triple D says that this film can be cross processed.

Within secs, Ed managed to appease Diana and fed the film into its mouth.

Next up, how much to turn to ensure that it has reached the first photo.. After turning about 2 rounds (which we thought was sufficient), we starting snapping photos...

But.... When we brought the camera to Ruby, the uncle advised and told us that our camera have yet to start rolling. He started to turn our camera many many rounds until we can actually see some dotted lines on it, before the 1 starts appearing on the red backing.. Woo hoo.. we are finally on the right track. =)

We started snapping photos in the bright scorching sunlight.

Double exposure.. First shot, Me standing real close to the fish eye lens.. Second shot, Ed's turn




















Ed standing at a distance of about 5m away..



















Love the expression on Ed's face. Taken real close, say about 1m away from the lens. (Tip: Fisheye lens turn out best when taken real close, say about 1-2m away)



















Me bracing the hot sun for a nice shot. Love the way the colour turns out.



















Photo taken indoor at Mica Building... Love the colours..(Tip: Advisable to use flashlight for indoors. Most of our photos taken indoor turn out rather light and grainy.. )



















Taken at Clark Quay. Double exposure... Another of my favourite photo taken by Ed.



















The second attempt is definitely much better than the first. Way to got t2lomo!!!!

First roll of Diana

It is considered a feat to maneuver Diana. Our first roll of 120mm film was using Lucky B&W costing $4/roll....

First, we had problem loading the film. After much struggle, Google came to rescue. (Tip: Scotchtape is the key to success. It aids in taping the film to the camera. )

Next up, we had problem judging how much to turn to proceed to the next photo... As Lucky B&W is rather cheap, we have to make do with no markings to turn the film. So with our estimate, we just turn one round to proceed to the next photo.
(Tip from Triple D, there is actually markings on Lucky B&W, but it is very faint and we have to use torchlight to see the markings on the back of film.)

After more than 16 shots, our suspicion arose... How come the roll of photos does not seem to finish. But how do we know it has been fully used up in the first place? Thus curious us, tried to open up the backing of the camera to peep in... There is still the film in it.. Heck.. So we just continue snapping photos.... (At the same time, I was rather worried that our film got exposed to light and will be ruined...but at this point in time, what's more we could do but wait for results.)

Results
Turn out that our initial photos were not taken at all... It means that we have to turn rather a lot of rounds before the first photo starts...

Photos turned out rather blur... Out of 16 photos, only 3 decent ones make it and they are as follows:

Testing the diana's focus distance. Can take about one block of flat away.. Not too bad...



















Testing the Diana with flash and fisheye lens.. Rather clear.. But not easy to snap as most of our night photos were blurred. (Tip: Usage of a tripod is recommended, especially for night shots)



















One decent photo of me with double exposure. Realise that Ed's leg is also captured?



















Processing and scanning cost $13/roll for 120mm film. Rather expensive considering the fact that it was meant to develop 16 photos and only 3 decent ones were seen over here...

Anyway, it was fun experimenting it.... Not too bad for a first attempt...

Diana with 135mm

Diana is a big eater with low productivity. Feed her a roll of 120mm films and she only gives you 12 or 16 shots. Too expensive. So let me try feeding her a roll of expired 135mm and see how she reacts.

This is how I feed her.















As you can see from the picture, there's a big space in between the films and the camera base, because the size of 120mm is a lot more bigger than the 135mm. We need to get something to hold the negative there so that it won't move around too much.

I googled for a solution, of course. The helpful dude from lomotw suggested cutting up the spool and fit it into the negative.















Ok! So I cut up my spool and then realised that it's too fat. Miss Spool needs a visit to sliming center before she can serve Diana.

Never mind. Google again. Hmm... Bubble foam to make up the space sounds good, but I didn't have any of them.

The solution stroke me when I was using the ruler to measure the length of the negative compartment.















I put the ruler into good use, by breaking it into the length of the negative compartment. By the way, that was Cindy's ruler.
















I used the ruler as a base, then taped the negative firmly to it.
















My Diana is ready to rock n'roll in 135mm!

Hopefully this roll of negative comes out fine, with the sprocket hole effect :)

Update: Just realised the guy from dianacamera.com used the same trick