Camera, Camera, Camera

The creation of this blog was to share my experience with various issues in taking pictures and if reading my blog can give some insight on how to take some picture with more polished technical aspects, I have done my part.

 I gave advices without asking, so this is just me and my experience. If you like it, it is okay to use the ideas, but if you feel that this does not work for you, I will not be upset, because after all, this blog is just a place for me to say something I wanted to say. Shall I say, this is more for myself than for any readers. So don't be surprised that there has not been any activities for the last year or more, not because I stopped taking pictures, instead I have been taking pictures with different cameras. I just stopped having time to talk to my creative mind.

 I am not immuned to GAS (gear acquisition syndrome), lets be honest, I have acquired the following since I stopped writing this blog :

 - Niken F2A, but switch to F2AS after 2 rolls because I could not stand the meter needle in F2A. I have also bought 50mm F1.2, 24mm F2.0, 35mm F2.0, 50mm f1.4. Shall I get the 85, 105mm and 200mm?

- Since I already have the lens, why not F3 HP, even bought extra body as back up and took the F3 to Thailand for holiday.

 - When I was young, I could not afford the famous med1um format Contax 645, now I just could not resist with 80mm, 45mm and 150mm. The bokeh is from heaven with so much so much details yet not harsh. This is even better than the hassy in my opinion.

- I just could not not have the Contax G2 with 28mm, 45mm , 90 mm and 35mm. All are fantastic lens. The camera (range finder) has auto focus, auto exposure and still can shoot at 4 Frames per second. It works like a dream and delivers. One roll just jumped through in a short time.

Funny enough, during the same period, Nikon announce D800, D800E, D600, Canon announced 5DIII, 6D. Pentax was acquired by Ricoh and Hasselblad was acquired by sony (this is not correct after some verification.)

I spent thousands on film cameras, but not a cent on digital.

Digital cameras are more and more an industrial product, they look the same, feel as complicated, the character of the pictures are more or less the same. There is less and less individuality and more and more having the camera between the subject and me. When I shoot film, I only pay attention to the aperture and shutter speed. The rest are composition, light and timing. With digital camera there are more to worry - RAW or JPG, white balance, size of the file not wonder many of my friends stopped taking pictures after all.

Will be posting some film shots for a while, so please be patient and wait for a while.