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.