Film Once More

Just had a roll of black and white film processed at a shop... Despite the advances in digital imaging technology, I still think that film still gave a different feel somehow. And there's fun in processing your own film as well! :)

So.. I went out and got myself some basic darkroom equipment and chemicals. Dark bag, developer, fixer and daylight developing tank just for starters... And time to relearn processing after a roll or so :D

A month or so with the EOS-M and things to say

So I bought the EOS-M.. despite numerous negative reviews out there, especially on the slow auto-focus speed. Is it really that bad? I had been using it for some time. Yes.. auto focus is slower than my DSLR with USM lenses, but its perfectly fine. (Sometime I feel that its faster than the autofocus on Nikon DSLRs)

Initially, I was disappointed, when I was testing the autofocus in my room. I wasn't really taking any pictures, just trying to get it to focus on random items. It was SLOW.. really slow. But I after taking it out for a real world test, it's not bad at all. And touch to focus helps a lot too, rather than focusing and re-framing method that we often employ. So it seems the 'slow autofocus' problem only seems to be bothering people who doesn't own the camera or had not use the camera to take any pictures.

Cons? I wish manual focus had some kind of help, maybe like the focus peaking feature found in some other cameras, also, it seems to a lot of turning to adjust a tiny bit of focus :/

Lego Hobbit

Lego Hobbit, a set on Flickr.

First scene of The Hobbit rendered in Lego:)


Bilbo Baggins
Chilling out at his hole


Gandalf Visits
.. and frightening Bilbo


Gandalf Leaves...
.. or does he?


And Gandalf's Back


Etches the rune
There's going to be a feast tonight!

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And also a first attempt with a second off-axis flash, trying to do different lighting setups:) A little rough around the edges though.. Pardon my strange lighting. Still figuring out how do I do this..

A New Year

The world didn't end.. what a shame.. A new year had started with and a bunch of new things to try :)

1. Firmware hacking on my EOS 40D (see MagicLantern )
2. A Frankenstein camera of sorts (see FCam )? Most of the hardware are here now.. 
• why? reasons will come in a future post :)
3. A new camera, the EOS-M
4. Flash photography, I have 2 of them (external SpeedLights) now :)
5. Take more photos

And these will count as my New Year Resolutions