Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Lomography Lomo Diana F+ Deluxe Kit


Taken with Canon EOS 40D  Exposure:1/125  Aperture:f/1.8  ISO:100


The Lomo Diana F+ Deluxe Kit from Lomography contains a Diana F+ camera and all her accessory items. The 120 format camera with its various lenses, and filters enable the photographer to let his or her creativity run wild. The kit includes four Diana+ Lenses, 20mm fisheye, 38mm ultra-wide, 55mm wide, and 110mm telephoto, which mount with a twist onto the main lens.


This camera can shoot strait-forward snapshots, unlimited long exposures, and sweeping panoramas. Photographers have the choice of two shutter speeds, two full-frame image sizes and can create multiple and partial exposures, pinhole photos, round fisheye and wide angle compositions. Plus the kit includes the Diana 35mm back, which is fully interchangeable and easily pops on and off your camera. With this accessory installed you can shoot all types (color, slide, b&w) of 35mm film. With the included Diana+ flash low-light situations can create a whole new vista.


The kit contains all you need to get the most out of this fun to use camera...except for film and your creative imagination.
• Lightweight Plastic Body
• Uses 120 or 35mm Film
Two Shutter Speeds
Choose between "N" for normal daytime snapshots or "B" for unlimited indoor and nighttime exposures.
Two Image Sizes
You can choose between the 12 full-frame shots 2 x 2" (5.2x5.2cm), or 16 smaller square images - 1.65 x 1.65" (4.2x4.2cm).
Multiple and Partial Exposures
You can advance the Diana+ as much or as little as you like after each shot - making multiple exposures, half-exposed frames, and stretched out crazy-long shots a snap.
Pinhole Function
Remove the lens, set the aperture to a super-small pinhole and shoot a super-wide-angle, severely old-school image through a tiny hole.
Endless Panorama
Use this setting along with the smaller image format 1.65 x 1.65" (4.2 x 4.2) to place sequential frames right next to each other and create a concurrent and unlimited panoramic image.
Shutter Lock and Tripod Thread
Sharp and solid long exposures (especially pinhole images) require a steady camera. To help you out, we've included a standard tripod thread on the bottom of your Diana+ and a small shutter lock that allows you to keep the shutter indefinitely without holding it down.










Diana Flash
The face is cast of the Diana Flash is reflective silver, and it syncs with the Diana F+ via an old-school metal plug connection.
Integrated Color Flash
The Diana F+ includes a small packet of plastic color gel filters. Slip one into your flash and throw a burst of colored light at your subject - day or night!


Long Exposure Flash
By setting the Diana F+ to the long exposure "B" setting, you can let ambient light into your image - thereby superimposing a flashed subject against a beautiful background.
Hot Shoe Adapter
The Diana Flash works via a two-pronged plug adapter (included). It plugs directly into the Diana F+ camera body. On top of that, a Diana Plug-to-Hotshoe adapter is included, which allows you to use the hi-powered and radiantly beautiful Diana Flash on any standard hotshoe camera - like the LC-A+, Fisheye 2, Holga w/ hotshoe and plenty of others!
Interchangeable Lenses
The Diana+ Deluxe Kit comes with a variety of lenses. Merely twist off the basic lens (as if you were going to take a pinhole shot), and instantly mount another lens.










20mm Fisheye Lens
The 20mm Fisheye Lens is an interchangeable plastic Diana+ lens that offers a a 180-degree field of view, and a completely circular image on a square print. This high-quality plastic lens perfectly captures the signature look of Diana+ Super-wide-angle images produced by the Fisheye come with a wonderful bonus: focused sharpness from the front to the rear of your image. Each fisheye image shows massive depth of field, so your subject and background will be crisp images - warm, saturated colors, soft focus, and that special dreamlike feeling. A viewfinder and plastic mounting bracket is included with your Fisheye lens. Slip a viewfinder and plastic mounting bracket onto the Diana+'s top crown, and get a dazzling preview of the 180-degree view in front of your face.










Two Fisheye Formats
Shooting with the 20mm Fisheye on the Diana+'s large 12-shot format results in a perfectly circular image nestled inside a square format. Straight lines move from the center to curve and distort at the images. Try the 16-shot format and let that circle spill right into the square edges. You can shoot a series of partial frames to absolutely cover your film with super-wide-fisheye-distorted content.










38mm Diana+ Super Wide Lens
Roughly equivalent to a 25mm lens on a standard 35mm camera, this classic super-wide perspective is a favorite of street photographers and photojournalists. Close subjects assume an in-your-face urgency (and slightly stretched out noses). City and country-scapes take on a sweeping and grandiose air. It features a 120° view angle, full frame with vignetting and edge distortion. It requires the included dedicated viewfinder.










55mm Diana+ Wide & Closeup Lens
The 55mm Wide lens has a focal length is roughly equivalent to a 34mm lens on a standard 35mm camera. The overall effect is a pleasing wider-than-normal view with that same classic Diana+ vignetting, selective focus, and dazzling color saturation. An accessory viewfinder is included to preview your shots. The Close-Up Lens slides directly onto the 55m Wide Lens, allowing for fast, extreme close-up shots whenever the situation arises. Images have a shallow depth of field: meaning that a tiny bit of foreground is in focus against a soft background.














110mm Diana+ Telephoto Lens
The 110mm Diana+ Lens features "perfect imperfections" of a soft telephoto engineered to produce colorful, soft, slightly blurry, vignetted, snapshots. Zoom into your subject and shoot them from afar. Great for candid shots, street photos, distant mountains, and wild horses. Telephoto images also have a compact perspective meaning that face portraits have unusual features. As the focal length of your lens gets longer, the depth of field becomes more shallow. Shoot on a smaller aperture for a dual-focus effect. A viewfinder plastic mounting bracket is included.














Diana+ Splitzer
The Splitzer is a multiple image accessory (included). Slip it onto the top of your Diana F+ lens and twist the blades with your fingers. All you have to do is keep track of what parts of the image you've shot...or not. By slicing and dicing your photos, you can re-combine them to make something entirely new. Shooting lots of double-exposures in the daytime will wash out your image, but users can shoot a full roll of images - changing the Splitzer's position each time. Later on that day, the following day, next month or year, or whatever - reload the film and shoot it again, varying the Splitzer's position for each shot.





Diana+ 35mm Back


Diana+ 35mm Back
Expressly designed for the Diana+, this 35mm back is fully interchangeable and easily pops on and off your camera. With this accessory installed you can shoot all types (color, slide, b&w) of 35mm film. It has two integrated exposure counters tell you the precise frame you're on, and gives users four different image formats: panoramic wiht sprocket holes, standard panorama, standard landscape, and square with sprocket holes.
2-Year International Warranty
The Diana+ is covered against any manufacturer defects for a full 2 years from the date of purchase. This warranty is valid throughout the world.
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Monday, August 16, 2010

No Time For Tears

Taken with Canon EOS 40D Exposure:1/80  Aperture:f/2.8  ISO:100
It's time to wake up and back to reality
Carry on walking the new path
That lays ahead each day
Go on with life, forget the pain
And cherish those once happy days

Leave the past
Forget it all
And carry on
A dream shall always be a dream
There's no time for tears
When you live in the real world

Location: Parit Sikom, Pontian,Johor, Malaysia


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without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Join the Queue!

Taken with Canon EOS 40D Exposure:1/25  Aperture:f/2.5  ISO:200







































Koi Cafe or 豆 Cafe Bubble Milk Tea,  No.1 in Singapore??

Try it and you'll love it!!!


Koi Cafe Ang Mo Kio
Blk 704 Ang Mo Kio Central #01-2545 Tel: +65 6459 1518
Koi Cafe Bishan
513 Bishan street 13 #01-503 Tel: +6258 1729
Koi Cafe Illuma
201 Victoria Street #01-15 Iluma At Bugis Tel: +6884 6817
Koi Cafe People’s Park
1 Park Road #01-16 People’s Park Complex Tel: +65 6536 8330
Koi Cafe Marine Parade
Blk 83 Marine Parade Central #01-562 Tel: +65 6440 4869
Koi Cafe Toa Payoh
190A Toa Payoh Central #01-562 Tel: +65 6256 1169

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Sinar p SLR - Professional tool for 35 mm photographers



The Sinar p SLR was developed especially for photographers who wish to
avail themselves of the unique advantages and quality characteristics of
a Sinar view camera while using their digital single lens refl ex cameras.
Exact control of the perspective and selective sharpness – the most important
creative tools in photography – can be set and evaluated precisely on
a view camera. All these advantages now have also become available to
users of 35 mm cameras. This well thought-out solution is further enhanced
by the signifi cant increase in quality provided by the use of high resolution
lenses developed by Rodenstock especially for digital photography.

Professionalism in the details
The Sinar p SLR can be used with all digital single lens refl ex cameras that are currently available on the market. Thanks to the quick clamping adapter that is included with the set, the change from vertical to horizontal format can be performed with effortless ease within seconds.


When the single lens refl ex cameras is connected directly to the camera via USB or FireWire, the integrated strain relief provides safety while working and protection of the USB / FireWire socket on the camera.

A positioning and centering aid serves for the exact positioning of the digital single lens reflex camera on the optical axis. This ensures that the sensor of the digital camera is positioned perfectly in both the vertical as well as the horizontal format setting. This function is indispensable for the unrestricted use of the advantages of the view camera and for working professionally.

Flexibility and creativity
Sinar has been the leading manufacturer of view cameras for more than 50 years. Sinar p SLR stands for the highest precision in cameras “Made in Switzerland” and for ergonomics that allow unrestricted creativity. The human hand was used as a guide for the size, shape and handiness of all the operating elements, so that they can be used easily, even in darkened rooms.


Locking devices based on practical experience permit a quick and easy changing of lenses and bellows by means of simple fi nger pressure. Visible design elements give the Sinar p SLR a trendy appearance.

Self-locking drives guarantee highly precise settings – the camera precisely retains the adjusted settings. All the essential elements for creating an image, like swings and tilts of the image- and lens standards (Scheimpfl ug), as well as vertical and horizontal shifts can be used. With all such manipulation, the camera remains absolutely yaw-free.

A view camera for all digital imaging systems
Whether Canon or Nikon – Sinar offers solutions for all currently available single lens refl ex cameras.
The change to a digital back is accomplished by means of one of the many available adapters. Thanks to the universal quick clamping adapter, conversions using the various components are very easy and performed within a short time. This Sinar p SLR conforms to the Sinar tradition of offering modular systems to photographers in keeping with the latest trends of the market.

Benefits that are convincing:
• Unlimited freedom for image creation
• Inserting existing lenses with Copal shutter
• Inserting Hasselblad -V lenses
• Versatile use of an existing single lens refl ex camera
• Economical use of existing Sinar View Camera for a digital solution
• Quick change from vertical to horizontal format
• Adapters for most 35 mm camera
• Unique expansion possibility for live image by means of an accessory monitor
• Enhanced quality with the use of medium format and view camera lenses
• Strain relief for USB and power supply cables
• Versatile assortment of professional accessories such as lens hood and filter
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Monday, August 2, 2010

D700/D700s/D700x/D800 or D900??


The conflicting information about different camera models possibilities (D700s/D700x/D800/D900) that at point I cannot say for sure what will be the actual number. And then today I found out why – the rumor is that this time Nikon has sent blank bodies out for testing, without model number and nobody from the testers really knows what the final version will be. I am not sure if they have done this in the past (Leica labeled the M9 as M8 when they sent it out for testing).

Whatever the model number, the consensus seems to be higher resolution and full HD video. I have not received ISO sensitivity, viewfinder coverage or any other details yet.

Nikon rotates their model numbering scheme and currently in the “odd cycle” D700, D90, D3x, D5000, D3000, D3s, D300s. The next one is the “even cycle” D4, D400, D600, D800. If this is true, D900 could be the real name, especially if it has higher MP that the D700.

Switch to Nikon? 
No, i need a backup :)
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