Another new one!!

looks like im on a buying spree.

here is what my next camera looks like.

its the Yashica Electro 35 GSN rangefinder!! it was made in the 70s. finally ive got myself a rangefinder. whats cool is that it has a f1.7 aperture, thats fast! it uses film too!! oh and its also vintage :D

so i finally got it

i know its been an uber long time since i last made a blog entry. blogging doesnt seem to appeal to me that much anymore.


many things has happened, holidays are over, new semmester has started, and life goes on as usual.

so here is what this blog entry is all about.

i finally got the LC-A+!!

all thanks to the combined effort between my sister and i in monetary terms to purchase the camera.

so here is what it looks like.

now just to let you guys know what this camera does. its an old school film camera.

yes it uses that little rolls of photographic film. no silicon sensors in this camera. you even have to manually wind the film after each photo is taken, and once you've spent all the pictures, you gotta manually rewind it back into the roll too!

besides that, this camera has a minitar 1 32mm f2.8 lens. this lens suposedly gives super high saturation and contrast, which i have no idea how true that is. the lever on the right of the lens is the manual focus setting. this camera has 4 zones for focusing which are 0.8m, 1.5m, 3m and infinity.

the LC-A+ also has a hotshoe, so you are able to attach an external flash onto it.

some of the things that makes the LC-A+ different from the original LC-A is that it doesnt have an aperture setting and the LC-A+ has an added lever for chreating multiple exposures on one frame.

oh and it also has an expanded ASA setting to 1600 and can take the wire release and some other acessories like the fisheye adaptor.

all in all its quite a cool camera. it was originally a russian camera created by the soviet union. well actually it was a copy of a japanese camera, the cosina CX-1. but now production has been moved to china becuase the LOMO company in russia shut down their camera division a number of years ago.

so this camera like all cameras being sold by the lomographic society international, has super inflated prices.

anyway i think you guys are super confused and dont understand what im thinking. if you want to know more, look up LOMO LC-A+ on google.

btw, i would show you some of the shots that i took, but i'd have to get the film scanned into the computer, which costs money, so forget that.

cya

a new light

here is some cool news.

well it might not be such great a news to some of you guys, but it is really great to me!

so wondering what the news it?

i guess i'll just talk about nothing before i actually tell you guys what it is.

so this week has been quite a hectic week for me. well maybe not such a hectic week. its just hectic at times, because i tend to push all the important things i have to do to the last minute.

so i just finished my law exam. accounts exam was on tuesday. reason why it has been hectic is i kept procrastinating. was supposed to study early but only started studying for my accounts paper about 12 hours before the paper started. as for the law paper, i was scheduled to start studying it at least 24 hours before, but only ended studying it 5 freaking hours before the exam!

thank god there are the past year questions, and the exams were only MCQs. that really saved my butt.

so besides all the exams and stuff, i'm back to running courses again in camp5. finally have the chance to continue practicing my running the courses, which would eventually lead to me getting approved as an all out instructor. there is a course tonight, tomorrow night, thursday night, saturday morning, and sunday morning!

whoopee! its going to be absolutely fun....

ok so here is the cool news.

i finally got myself an external flash for my camera.

this model is called the FL-36. reason why is because at iso 100, this flash can light up a subject 36 meters away. it has an AF assist lamp, which totally helps with focusing in the dark. the head can be turned, so now i can bounce the flash, and its just cool la.

now i can finally shoot gigs properly.

here is some photos of one buck short's event at the loft. it was their album launch and i just stopped by to get some shots and party a little.

before i begin, this is a picture of ted. a really bad picture of him...

just see how many times you can spot ted in the pics. i think besides the performers, he was one of those that was photographed the most. with my camera.

so anyway, on with the pictures.


this is one buck short. without the drummer. spot ted!


and more pics.

and some more. see if you can spot ted again.

alright, enough of the band, here are pics of the ppl at the event.

this is thomas, a new addition to camp5. he comes from france.

this is wan, with a chick which i can't recall her name. wan is a colleague of mine from camp5

a picture of the crowd. see of you can spot thomas.

and lastly, the 2 white guys with really wierd hair styles. can you spot them? the one with the black leather jacket, and the one in purple. they look like they came out of an austin powers movie.

ok so i missed out the food part...

alright, so i missed out about the food part.

so here is the story of the day out with jolene, jox, jiameei and shahpur.

at first we ate at marche which was in the curve. and us, being really short of money and in an expensive restaurant (maybe not so expensive, but we were short of cash), had to order super cheap food.

here is a picture of the sun which brightened our day at marche.

thats jiameei on the left and jolene on the right.

and this is one of me, jox and shahpur. shahpur looks like he is having an orgasm or something...

so after hanging out at marche for a while, we decided to head over to 1 utama to visit the batting cages.

so here is another one of us at the batting cages.

need i put a caption on this picture?

man... yet again i feel really lazy to type out an entry, so ill let the pictures do the talking, with me placing some captions and stuff...

jocelyn and jolene posing for the camera. come to think of it, i have no idea why people, including myself, strike up a pose whenever a camera is pointed their way....

alright this picture seriously looks like a family portrait.

shahpur's version of a kikapoo advert. the criteria was that we had to look like we were real happy! i think he over did it.

and this is mine. i think shahpur did better than me.

this photo pf shahpur looks really wrong..... can you spot why?

more posing for the camera.

and here is another one of the girls.

and yet another one. argh!!! when will it stop!

jolene takes safety really seriously... but come to think of it, wearing a helmet which is used for rental really sucks... everyones sweat and germs are on it!!

yet more posing...

then finally it was time for us to hit some balls. shahpur dances in rejoice.

so the next few pictures are just the best shots i could get of each person while batting. except jox, cause i have no idea why there are none of her photos.

this is jiameei. if you look carefully, the ball is coming right at her but she is still adjusting her hair.

this is shahpur. i like incubus, do you?

this is jolene. she doesn't like wearing shoes.

this is noel. he looks like he is about to chop some imaginary person in half.

this was the bestest shot i got.

shahpur gets blown by the wind.

noel gets blown by the wind too...

don't ask me why i'm referring to myself in the third person... cuase i have no idea why.

so after all that playing around, we decided to take some portraits.


alright, i'll just spare you guys the parkour pictures for now as i think there is already alot of pictures in this post. so i'll just post up the parkour pics in another entry.


but... i have just one more picture to post...


can you guess whats new?

more on that in the next post :D

some shots

ok, so yet again it has been a long time since i last posted.

but oh well... i have still yet to finnish the phuket post.

but in the mean time, here are some shots of some old cameras that i have. i was playing around with this technique of photographing items where the background is totally white. so here are the results of my expetimentations.

this is an olympus OM10. a film camera of mine that has long gone unused.

next is my mums old kodak camera that we brought back from my grand mothers place in terengganu. this camera uses some sort of different film which is different from those normally used today. so i doubt that i would ever get this camera to work again...

so yeah, its really easy to set up this white background thing (cant remember what this technique is called). all you have to do is get a few pieces of white paper, and put it at the base of the camera and also at the back of the camera, carefully hiding away the gaps between the pieces of paper. take the photo and then you got your shot!

this last photo was taken when i was walking around my park. managed to get this OK only sun set shot.

jon boodvile says that it represents hope!

whee!!

and so the holiday begins

so today is tuesday. its just like any ordinary tuesday, only thing different is that its in december and that makes it another day closer to Christmas!

whats on the itinerary today?

today i'm going to watch i am legend for the SECOND TIME!!!

its such a freaking good movie man! every part of the movie i'm in suspense, wanting to know what happens next.

after the movie there would be more caroling!

and after caroling, its back home to start packing for phuket!

yes, i am leaving for a holiday for almost a week to phuket. will only be back on christmas eve. sigh... its actually quite sad. won't be able to spend christmas with friends.

oh btw, i got a new lens! its a zuiko 14-54mm f2.8-3.5, if you don't know what i mean with all those numbers, then you should just ignore it :D

so anyway will be back on christmas day!

i know, i know!

yes, it HAS been really really long since i last updated.

i have so much to blog about, but just don't have the time!

time, something everyone wants but never seem to have enough of. i really hate it when i don't have the time to just laze around in front of the computer, reading random stuff off the net, watching movies downloaded off the net, and most of all just plain doing nothing.

lately i've been playing around alot with me new olympus E-510. i'm getting used to it now. but i think i would need to get a new lense. i really hate it when i need a zoom lense and only brought my wide lense along. it pisses me off! so thats why i've set my eyes on a 18mm-180mm lens :D

getting that lense and a new speed light would make me really really happy.

2 days ago, i suddenly decided to climb up onto the roof of my house to take some photos. it was a hard climb. stepping on those tiles on the roof are freaking scarry. plus i was pretty high up. just think about it, i live in a 3 storey house, and i climbed up onto the top most top of the house to take my photos. it was really windy, there wasn't much sun shine, and it was really really high up. i think i was about 15 meters off the ground. good think i'm a climber, so heights isn't much of a problem for me.

but now you guys must be thinking, what in the hell would make noel climb up onto the roof just to take photos?

well here is what i took photos of.

yes i know, the power cables really spoils the shot. but i guess i can't do anything about it. unless i buy some C4 explosives and detonate it at the base of that tower. but then again if i do that, i wouldn't have any electricity.

yes, my first sunset shot. it was actually quite cool. i can see 1 utama, the curve, and some other places from my roof top. i also am able to get a good shot of a sun rise. well i guess i'll only be taking a shot of that when i finally decide to wake up uber early in the morning one fine day.

well in my next upcoming post i'll post some pictures from the recharge revelation, global gathering. it was freaking hell muddy. plus everyone was practically walking in horse shit, as they actually use that field for the horses to graze.

besides that, i would also post pics from the camp5's promo wall in 1 utama. it was a cool wall, also it gave us a chance to tell the people of malaysia that camp5 does exist and lives on the 5th floor of 1 utama.

untill the next post! good bye!

finally my search is over

well i finally got the camera.

2 days ago i went over to KL with jocelyn and sandra in search of a camera for a good price.

we started kinda late, cause ms. sandra chan didn't want to wake up earlier than 11am. so we left at about 12 ish...

**i'm going to keep this short, as i do not seem to be in the mood for blogging right now.

we had a quick mamak lunch and i went to the bank to get some cash for the camera and off we went to busy kuala lumpur!

first stop was pudu plaza. since we didn't know where it was, other than it being somewhere in pudu, it took us about an hour ti find the place. reason why we went there was because ted said that they sell cameras at good prices. but sadly, there was only 2 freaking shops there and they both didn't sell the camera i wanted.

pudu plaza was a freaking scary place. you could see old people walking around as if they were going to beat someone up, the whole place smelled of insence, and it was full of "La La" people.

so we got out of there as soon as we could.

then we headed over to sungai wang, and that was where i finally bought it.

the winner of my never ending decision of my fickle minded brain.

the olympus E-510.

its quite a cool camera.

here are some of the specs:

• built in image stabilisation
• some really good dust reduction system
• live view (like those you have in your typical point and shoots)
• 10mp (like you cant tell from the picture)
• uses the four thirds system
• what ever lens you put on it, the focal range is x2

i bought the twin kit lens, so i have 2 lenses with a focal range of 28-300!!

it still has more stuff. but i'm not in the mood to post it up.

anyway we bargained and stuff. but thanks to the 2 girls that came along with me, i was able to get a better price. if i were alone i would have probably paid a bomb. thanks san and jox :D

after all that buying, we went over to some place which was having a warehouse sale clearance thinggy. the girls went to buy their stuff, while i just hung around the place not able to buy anything as most of the mens clothes were already gone.

next stop was pavilion!

the girls had this fabulous idea if walking from one end to the other on each floor! it wouldn't be so bad if it was a short building, but this building had about 7 storeys! my legs almost dropped off. every time they entered a shop i looked for a chair and just sat down. seriously should never go shopping with girls man. they will be able to beat even the toughest athletes when it comes to shopping.

anyway this is the cool new shopping mall that has opened in bintang walk. its freaking huge, has really high ceilings, looks all nice and "new age" according to san, and most of all it has J FREAKING CO!!


i first had J.CO doughnuts when i went to jakarta. and it was freaking good! weird thing was that everyone that was working there seem to be from indonesia too. they must have brought a bunch of them from indo to start up the franchise in kl.

so anyway, we bought 2 dozen doughnuts, ate half of it there and the other half was for me to bring back home.

after all that doughnuts, our next stop was to get back to sungai wang. went there, and it was back to more shopping again. this time there was less walking aroung, cause everyone was starting to get tired.

we headed home at about 9. i was so happy to be able to sit down and just drive. could finally rest my legs.

sent jox home, then went to camp5 with san to discuss with soon seng what we were going to do for our bosses upcoming party, and after we went to eckywooby for super.

went home after.


ok, didn't have that much pics, as my trusty sanyo ran outa battrie, and my new camera needed to be charged before it could be used.

anyway, will post more on boss jeremy's party soon!! its on sunday!

dSLR cameras

lately i've been cracking my head deciding which dSLR camera to get.

i've narowed it down to 3 brands, nikon, olympus, and canon.


from nikon, i was thinking of getting the nikon D40x


from olympus, i was thinking of getting the E-510


and lastly from cannon, i was thinking of the EOS 400D or Digital Rebel XTI


so what do you guys think?