edmund wee

I went back to Chengdu, this time on a holiday with my family. I brought along a film camera – Nikon FE and came back with these pictures. Enjoy!

All photos at a glance

The Church

Husband and Wife 2

Old Rooftops

Modern Buildings

Hungry Statues

Laughing Buddha

Fake MJ

For the past 2 weeks, I have been browsing online camera forums and ebay in camp. I am thinking of buying a 2nd-hand film camera. Thinking of learning film SLR, total control, shutter speed and aperture and totally manual.

Payday was on Friday, so on Saturday noon, I was at Peninsula Plaza scouting around. Went to a few camera shops, do window-shopping. Then came across this Nikon FM which was on displayed. Quite well-maintained and looks like new. So I asked the uncle for the price. Price quoted was good, within my budget. Then I requested him to include a 2nd hand 50mm f1.8 lens and sell me as a whole package with body, so that at least I could bargain the price.

Unfortunately, there is no stock for this 2nd lens. I went over to other camera shops and ask around but to no avail. Another option is to buy the new lens, which will be more expensive. Still considering about it, I think I should also try other places next week!

Film: Fujifilm Velvia 50
Camera: Holga 120N

Here are the shots. Developed this roll at Peninsula Plaza. This time round, I request to scan the film to a CD instead of printing them out, cause its cheaper. But disappointing shots in the end. Very blue, dark and underexposed. Is the problem with the scanner, my camera or the ISO of the film?

And by the way, today the facebook vanity url created such a big wave, so many usernames were registered within the first few minutes it launched. And I just changed mine to “/edmundweeyuxin”. Of course I would prefer ending with “/edmundwee” but no choice, it’s already taken. But I am intriqued by this phenomenon, this rush for online identity.

Something interesting to share : 15 Silliest Facebook Vanity URLs

I realised i’ve not updated for some time. So here are some b/w photos i took a few weeks back. Just some random shots of the streets:

Flat for sale-A shot at maude road
Wishing for good fortune-Two person “molesting” the buddha
Indian temple-The indian temple beside guan yin miao
Within the comfort zone-Old people talking under the big umbrella

Guan Yin Miao- The temple that i normally go
Magical Salesman-Outside guan yin miao, there’s this old man selling his medical oil but is performing magic at the same time to attract people. He claims he could use it to create things like rice, coffee and green beans.

Crowd Magnet-The same old man above. I took 2 shots of him in total. I realised he is quite special and have a type of charisma that people will stop to listen to him speak…so in a way i see him as a magnet.
Elevator – Workers working in a back alley.

When i received the photos from the shop, was surprised by the very strong contrast in colours because it’s using cross-processing, some turn out good but some too dark but i will post all of them below…

Malacca-Classic old houses.

Romantic-looking church

Dutch-influenced design-The Stadhuys Square

Classic Malacca street which is more classic than chinatown.

Satay stall and shops, but too dark cannot see the people eating inside

Quite scary how it turns out, is actually a mask on a mannequin display.

I dunno why i took this picture, but it reminds me of the kit-kat advertisement on tv where the guy help the girl to crush the drink cans, while the girl enjoys her kit-kat!

Hokkien mee-my favourite food

Back in S’pore

Today i just received my enlistment letter, i will be enlisting on 16 September! Finally! Btw also want to ask who interested in going Malaysia, back-pack or weekend trip?

Some of the developed photos…

Taken with Holga 120N

I have been trying out Holga, i have never tried using film cameras before, and is also quite curious about the quality by this toy camera. Here are some of the photos, the others turns out blurry, no choice cannot delete the film…this is what traditional photography is about

Taken in Malaysia:

Sea

Fishing

Street-Retro Car-Nissan 13OY

Highway Speeding

Will upload more next time, no more film left