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Dug out these old scans from maybe 3 years ago when I first ventured into film photography. Well … maybe toy camera photography to be precise. I still remember buying my first Diana camera from a Yahoo! auction without even thinking if I got ripped off for the price I was paying for a piece of plastic camera. The girl who sold it to me keeps remind me that she ripped me off. 😀 Nah, she was joking (I hope).

So clumsily I found some expired 120 film and was brave enough to bring that old Diana camera on a trip to Shanghai! I didn’t even know how to load that darn film! Not wanting to waste too many rolls, I only fired 2 rolls during that trip and upon coming back to Singapore … I was pretty awed by the quality (or the much lack of it) of the photos from that piece of plastic!

From the photos, guess you can see that they were converted from color photos into monochrome images. I did that in Photoshop. Look at these photos … I didn’t even give them the same color tint during post processing. 😀 At that time, I didn’t even know about black & white film and all that jazz. I was just glad the risk I took, bringing that old Diana along wasn’t too bad a decision. I can clearly remember myself squatting in a corner in a temple, trying to load my first roll of film on the Diana. The friend who was with me was pretty amused (he was a hardcore digital fan) but he later picked up film photography and has evolved into some rangefinder guru (leaving me behind with these fuzzy photo producing cameras).