A good forum friend came to town for a short visit over the weekend, we had a long walk around the city. Haven't shot film for a long time, I decided to give my beloved SuperPROGRAM a test run. It's the first time I used manual film camera, what an experience! Shot 3 rolls of expired film (2 fujifilm, 1 kodak), the first two rolls turned out to have weird colors probably due to their ages, the last roll seems to be great, to me at least.

I'm kinda digital guy nowadays, shooting film really took me some shots to get used to. At the beginning I'd look at the camera back after each shot, even tried to look for the replay button Sometimes I forgot to forward the film before taking a shot, and my finger got into some shots when I used a super wide angle 20mm lens Anyway, I'm pretty happy w/ the test run. Here are all the 36 shots from the last roll, all in sequence as they were taken, scanned by the shop where I had the film developed. No process other than resize/some sharpening/sign. I'm sure some cropping and processing might enhance them further, but decide to post them as is. Hope you like some of them.

[kjfaust]

nice set!
i really like the fisheye!
I used to get the black around the images aswell on my fisheye lomo cam

[frank]

Photography like yours really reminds me of Darren (just minus the scenery shots)

Your work is really cool. I love the casual feel, candid style documentary with these cultural specific elements in this series of photographs

Thanks James Glad you like them. I really love what Darren has been doing, and sometimes I'd try to do some similar things. Hope I could reach his level someday

I really enjoyed this series, thanks for posting them up!

Thanks Fred

Beautiful photos. I love the color and depth. I think I'll go put some film in my Mamiya for the heck of it.

Thanks Dave. I like the different feel and look too, will sure do it again soon

[frank]

Excellent !!!

What films you used ? I like very much Fuji Reala 100 and Kodak ProFoto 100 .

Thanks. I used a Golden Kodak 100 which was expired 3 years ago Don't have much choice for film 'cause I got them free from my friends. Still have over 10 rolls of expired film to kill

Thanks for the fine examples Frank. Quality vs quantity is showing through, makes me think about getting a SLR to play with.

Thanks. Shooting digital is still alot easier, but I probably would have more than 500 shots for the same shootout if I used digital, and probably will only keep 50 of them. That's something about digital, you don't think as much as when you are shooting film.

[frank]

nice set!
i really like the fisheye!
I used to get the black around the images aswell on my fisheye lomo cam

Thanks KJ. Glad you like them. The 8mm FE is really cool, pity it lost quite a bit FOV on digital ...

[monochrome]

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[SamC]

Hey Frank,

Just got around to sort out the images and post them.


LINK: Sam’s Photo Blog Singapore

For those interested,
Body: K10D
Lens: 8mm Fisheye, 31mm Ltd, Sigma 17-70mm, Sigma 70-200mm EX

I will post more pictures from the walk around we did together to see the different perspectives
I didn't take that many in the Chinese temple...yours turned out great though.
So what are your feelings toward the fisheye shots?

[frank]

Thread bookmarkled so I can come back to it many times.

That's nice to know Thanks.

[frank]

Hey Frank,

Just got around to sort out the images and post them.


LINK: Sam’s Photo Blog Singapore

For those interested,
Body: K10D
Lens: 8mm Fisheye, 31mm Ltd, Sigma 17-70mm, Sigma 70-200mm EX

I will post more pictures from the walk around we did together to see the different perspectives
I didn't take that many in the Chinese temple...yours turned out great though.
So what are your feelings toward the fisheye shots?

Hey Sam, excellent summary of Singapore, pretty much what I feel too. And glad to meet you here, pity I couldn't stay w/ you longer than I hoped ...

Hope we'd get together again sometime somewhere in the future

[SamC]

Here are a few more from our walk-around

[SamC]

[SamC]

[frank]

Nice shots Sam. They do look quite different from what I took w/ film

[Ole]

Thanks for sharing! It was a nice trip through Singapore which I have never seen myself!

[Jonson PL]

Always good to see film shots, also like the ones from your Singapore Indoor Garden Festival.

somehow I still feel weird about shooting random people in the streets... Any tips about that?

Darren made a thread about it, and with articles on his site :
Some writing of mine, and a favour to ask. [Page 1]: Pentax SLR Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review

Frank, that's an awesome series. You got some great poses from those game players.
#24 would have been really sexy fifty years ago. did she pose for you or was she already sitting like that?