Light Painting

Some experiments with light painting.

1. Turn off the light
2. Get a small LED torch
3. Prepare the background (magazine, backdrop, etc)
4. Put the camera on the tripod
5. Turn the camera into bulb mode
6. Start painting the object with LED torch
7. Done

Monthly Pentaxian Outing : March

This outing was held on March 19th at Sentosa Boardwalk, not many people as last Chinatown outing, but it was fun.

I used SMC A 50mm f2.8 and Vivitar 28mm f2.8 Close focus for this outing.

Kodak Tri-X 400 and Ilfotec DD-X

This was my first film/developer combination I tried.

Film: Kodak Tri-X 400 exposed at 400
Developer: Ilfotec DD-X (1+4)
Timing: 8 mins at 20 celcius, 10s agitation every min.

Olympus Mju II (Stylus Epic)

Olympus Mju II is a weatherproof auto focus point and shoot camera with fixed 35mm f2.8 lens. What makes Mju II unique is it has spot meter functionality hidden in it, which honestly I had never used it until I sold it. Mju II also produces sharp image, some people even said it's comparably as sharp as Leica lens when you use it together with ASA400 film (to enable the lens to stop down to smaller aperture). It reads the film speed and number of frame from DX code, and has no manual setting to tell the camera what film speed you want to use. The not-so-good thing about mju II is there's a shutter lag from the moment you press the shutter, camera locks focus, until it captures the image. In my humble opinion, this camera's not really useful for candid street shooting, since I need to wait 1-2s before the camera takes picture, not to mention 35mm lens which means I need to stand very close with the subject I want to shoot.

http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Olympus_mju_II

Some image taken with this camera :