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.

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

First roll of Super Sampler

I don't know if the camera feels anything when we open its rear door and stuck something in it, but to me, the first film loading experience was really a pain in the ass. I don't really want to relive my nightmare, so let's just let the pictures do some story telling.

This is the first time I am playing with the Super Sampler, so I decide to do some random shot around my daily life and see how it turns out.














I initially wanted to take the picture of SBS Transit wording. But due to the lack of a proper viewfinder on the Super Sampler, the picture turns out this way, which is quite cool too, a lone guy on a bus. Probably much cooler than the SBS Transit wording.















I got this idea from a book. Throw the Super Sampler towards the sky and let it takes picture randomly. Do it at your own risk though. It's not fun when your camera is up there and you can't open your eye because god is shining the spot light on you. Luckily the Super Sampler hit my arm when it fell down and I managed to catch it with my Bruce-like reaction.





















I just find the picture cool.















I put the Super Sampler on the floor, fire up the shutter and try to jump over it in 2 seconds. Inspired by one guy from the lomotw.com guy.





















Early morning at the car park below my house. Cindy says the light through the trees looks like a pig crossing the road. If you can't see the pig, it's at the lower left hand side of the picture.


The complete set of roll can be viewed here.

All the pictures above were taken using Super Sampler, with Cindy's ultra-expired films. The poor Kodak was neglected for almost 6 years before the I resurrected it from dead and gave him a new meaning to live on.