A date with the beast

Yeah, a real big beast. A camera I’ve always wanted to own but never managed to bring it in as shipping gonna cost a lot due to the weight. It weighs around 2kg and it’s huge! It’s often referred to as a ‘SLR on steroids’ and was produced from 1984 …

What makes some photos magical?

My answer is : How the hell would I know? It’s an interesting question that I read in a photography forum. Some excerpts from that question … Competent photography, we argued, could be attained by most people. As a competent photographer you could take some nice pictures of sunsets, supermodels …

Tired

I’ve always wanted to take some photos of the cameras I own, in case any of them happen to die … then I can slap the photo onto the camera’s tombstone. 😛 Anyway, I’ve just started to take some simple closeups of the cameras and they can be found in …

The Czechoslovakian beauty

Photographed these closeups of a Flexaret VII camera that the postman just delivered. Took me quite a while to figure out how to use it, and the manual was probably translated by some mad Czechoslovakian scientist (I lost 10% of my hair while trying to figure out what it says). …

Babysitting weekend

Someone asked me about the size of photo album I use to keep photos I take of Fitzand. 😀 Maybe it’s a sign that I’m taking way too many photos of him but that’s something I love doing lots. I usually only select some of my favourites for printing, else …

A walk in the park with Fitzand

The last couple of days, Fitzand has been learning to walk and I thought why not bring him to the park so that he can have more fun walking (and falling without hurting his bum) and kicking(!?) ball. Yeah, I’m not joking … despite the fact that his walk is …

Oh look what the cat dragged in!

  Collected an old Walzflex TLR from a seller and I should have took the Walzflex and left … but I didn’t. After a short conversation, I found out that he has 2 more of these old TLRs for sale! I went to take a look at them … and …

Spinning around

Had a short beer session with a friend to go through some photos we are working on, and somehow touched this subject of creating photos like the one above. It’s been a while since I did some of those based on some online instruction and thought maybe this coming weekend, …

Resurrected 35 bucks TLR

A TLR for $35? Well that’s about US$25 … for a TLR. Saw someone selling an old Haiou (Seagull) TLR (I think it’s the old 4A-103 model) for parts because the film advance wasn’t working. Took a risk and bought it to try resurrecting it and after a couple of …

Redscale double #1

First attempt at doing a double exposure with redscale film. Collaborated with Jimmy from 8storeytree.com, with myself exposing the back, while he did the front. Errmm … no … that sounds bad. Anyway, since redscale film means exposing the wrong side of the film, I did so and passed the …