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Digital: Profit center for large foreign corporations.
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comex is happening now but no way am i going to be part of the stat in the 800,000 crowd. i don't like to be given too many choices anyway. it just spells more headaches for me during the decision-making process. i'm still quite interested in the panasonic camera. a colleage recommended i approach a John at unit 3.16 at funan for recs (when i saw her message, i thought why she's quoting scripture for cameras. rotflol).
the internet's really a formidable place. i logged on to check out about the weekend fleas at OC and i ended up engrossed in so many new things. i really do live under a rock. i'm still not sure if there'll be my type of flea market happening at OC today and tomorrow. Truth-flea Speaking reveals that ffff is happening at home club today. i haven't been flea'g but it's not really been so long ago, by my standards. i should be stopping if i wanted this endeavour. but of course i was just talking thru my butt again. i haven't told you i've been accumulating more stuff in between... save me from myself!!
besides discovering that the guy behind Hotel 1929 has opened yet another boutique hotel, i found a site selling vintage cameras. so i'm now wondering if i should set aside a coupla hundreds for one such, instead of a digital one. but i have no reservoir of knowledge about old-skool cameras. i should know a little bit even if it's experimental photography involved? i need to grow guts and visit the camera shops that surround my office area. i feel self-conscious about walking into such shops. like i'm a wannabe, caught up in this citizen photography trend. i'm honestly too lazy to do research. i know i could find out more on clubsnap. there're just too many things to house in my brain.
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maybe i'll get the help of Uncle Tony, since the tenants in Peninsula seem to have been around forever. my SIL told me there's a 老字号 camera shop in the building. i'll borrow Uncle's guts to find out more :P and if i had guts and a thick skin, i'd love to join these bunch at little india today. can try the new LX5.
truth be told, it's really the tan camera case against the steel parts of the vintage zeiss ikon that appeals to me. i'm such a form over function person. it's like that for my cellphones. and it's like that for the bags i lust for. i used to own this camera bag and i wore it to dealth w/o a camera ever seeing the inside ofit. and i was always looking at camera bags on etsy. yesterday i saw a tan Dior with steel hardware at Zech. it's a tiny bag yet it's the only bag i'd consider buying. about 1.8k, iirc. if i had spare cash, the siao char bor in me might just buy it. somebody save me from myself.
Film: The Immortal Medium of the Masters.
- Why We Love Film
(that's why i'm considering the digital, lah. but yes it sounds so horrid to be giving too much to big firms.)
1 comments:
I love vintage cameras! But most photography buffs I know have at least one good digital and one good old fashioned version. It just depends on the type of film you're going for (and if you're really hardcore, whether or not you want to develop your own film).
You can get a ton of really good vintage cameras for cheap though. A friend of mine got one for 20 EUR at a fleamarket and it works perfectly.
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