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Road Trip
Taken somewhere along the highway in Johor

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Deepavali Lightup, last Sat night shoot. Tri-X push 1600

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Apologies for the scratchy photos, still very new to self developing, this roll got stuck several times in the reel.. lesson learnt.. need to cut the neg carefully before inserting into the reel. There was a war in my darkbag this morning.
 

One more, for cat lovers..

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Deepavali Lightup, last Sat night shoot. Tri-X push 1600
Apologies for the scratchy photos, still very new to self developing, this roll got stuck several times in the reel.. lesson learnt.. need to cut the neg carefully before inserting into the reel. There was a war in my darkbag this morning.

Tell me about it, I had a good sweaty hands session in my darkbag in the wee hours of 1-2am this morning.

Mine was because my sprockets on the film got screwed, so it affected the entire roll of film from spooling into the reel.

Last resort, cut the damn film, spool the screwed part as much into the reel as I could, the remaining film, spooled them into another reel & chucked the entire thing in the the developing tank & developed......... Hope it turned out alright though, I've put my film up for drying & will scan tonight, forsee there is gonna be quite a far bit of scratches :cry:

This is the 2nd time this has happen to me. But the first time was because I did not cut a round curve on the film before feeding it into the reel. The leader went in & bend back..... wa lau, sweat big time...

But for this time, I have no idea why the sprockets are #@*%*# :think:
 

Last night shooting with the RF.SG gang at Orchard road...What to shoot? I asked...here are some pic to share...


Young and full of energy...
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Free Heineken beer and model to shoot too...
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Woah... Me like me like..:lovegrin:



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Plop!


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MBS


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Marina Bay


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Fire escape, Balestier Road backlane


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Wonder what the late Richard Wright would have thought of this
 

here are shots from my test 2 test rolls of the newly acquired Leica M2.

Thanks to bro Thomas for selling me the camera & bro Derrick for lending me the VC II meter.

A little short write up on my thoughts of my first Leica M
I've finally acquired a mechanical M for myself after a Yashica Electro GS, followed by a Voigtlander Bessa R3A then a Konica Hexar RF.

Well, I got to say, it isn't that hard jumping from 3 aperture priority cameras to a fully manual one.

Initially I did fumble a bit as the M2 had no build in metering but thanks to Derrick, I've been shooting with a Voigtlander VC II meter mounted on the cold shoe of the M2.
VC meter II really does have pretty accurate reflected metering.

I guess the only thing I'm struggling with the manual M would be the loading of the film. I'm so used to the back opening of Japanese RF cameras & I've been further pampered with the loading style of the Hexar RF which has been my workhorse.

Initially I was afraid of being slow & experiencing a lot of wasted shots on the M2 due to the fully manual features of the camera. But that was all solved in just 1hour of shooting & getting used to the M2.

I must say, I love the challenge of fully manual, its been an enjoyable weekend shooting with the Leica M2 & I look forward to more shooting on it the coming weekend. I'm more into the camera & paying attention to detail on the Leica M2 rather than my Hexar RF where I would normally just fire away.

It has "slowed" me down not in terms of physical speed but more to "slowed" me down to learn more about the camera & enjoy taking pictures with the lovely mechanical body.

I do however do miss the 1/4000 shutter speed of my Hexar RF which really comes in very useful in sunny Singapore where the sun is blasting down most times of the day.

I chose the M2 because it had the classic solid metal crank, the classic re-wind knob & it comes without the red dot.
Not really a fan of the red dot there, prefer the old classic Leica design. Also, the reason why I chose the M2 over an M3 was because it had the frame lines which I use mainly, 35mm & 50mm.


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Some pictures from my test roll
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I still do need my Hexar RF for 35mm lenses though. Cant really comfortably see the 35mm frame lines on the M2 No choice, c**k eyed........

Maybe need À la carte Leica MP for the x0.58 VF? lol! Ain't got that kinda $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
 

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here are shots from my test 2 test rolls of the newly acquired Leica M2.

Thanks to bro Thomas for selling me the camera & bro Derrick for lending me the VC II meter.

A little short write up on my thoughts of my first Leica M


Some pictures from my test roll


I still do need my Hexar RF for 35mm lenses though. Cant really comfortably see the 35mm frame lines on the M2 No choice, c**k eyed........

Maybe need À la carte Leica MP for the x0.58 VF? lol! Ain't got that kinda $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Very nice first roll Gary!
Stick to 35mm on the M2...you will see the frameline eventually:D
 

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Mrs Casademunt
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Very nice first roll Gary!
Stick to 35mm on the M2...you will see the frameline eventually

Thanks master wong. I'm really having quite a hard time viewing the 35mm frame line on the VF. Have to strain my eyes to see it, not like on my Hexar, can see the 35mm effortlessly.

Some more test rolls:

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