The evil clown and his car

This is my neighbor, and I heard he eat kids for lunch.


















His car. You don't want to know what it runs on.

协奏曲

你感觉得到吗



















那不祥的预感



















当你发现我的存在时



















你的故事已经结束了。。。

Along Clarke Quay

Paint the town red

Chinatown is getting ready for New Year.

The dance party

The party at Chinatown.


















The King of the dance floor.


















The queen.


















The King lives forever.

Beautiful martians

Minor update on the East Coast bbq

I am not too sure if it's the film or the cross-process, but the pictures I took on the bbq seems eerily green.









































































At least the sun set wasn't too bad.

Diana 35mm backing

Christmas is early for lomographyasia.















This is what Santa brought us, we had to pay him in advance though.















The 35mm backing with its different frames.

狂想曲

一个秋意盈然的午后。



















一只大嘴外星人。



















喝了两杯。



















带着醉意。



















在百鬼夜行的巷子。



















抢了女孩的零食。

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.

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