Yep, i know its late. But my blog has been out of action for a few days for some reason.
Hope everyone has a good Cristmas and New Years break (if you were lucky enough to get one).
Santa was kind to me this year. I’ll update more later on
Cheers

Just put in a download page for the blog. At the moment i only have some camera manuals in there, but will be adding more soon.
Cheers

Just noticed one of the new members for my blog is called “adol77dai51″.
Hmm, interesting name..
Then an equally interesting email address of “adolfodaine77@gmail.com” prompted me to enter it in a google search to see if anything came up.
Immediately i got the impression that this person really loves blogs. So much so, they feel the need to sign up to thousands of them, but contribute nothing. Langauage doesnt seem to be a barrier either, Turkish, Italian, German, Chinese.
Who is this multilingual compulsive blog reading freak?
Good question. I have no idea what the purpose of this bot is. But it’s safe to say they’re not interested in your newest cupcake recepie, or your views on current world events.
So if your newest blog member is adol77dai51, and has adolfodaine77@gmail.com as an email address, i suggest you initiate a clean break early on in your relationship.

Did this when i found my Kyoto photos the other day.. Similar style to my Shibuya street series.

Well i just bought another film camera. This one was purchased for the pricey sum of 1 cent
Yep, one cent, with a flash and a bag too. And when i won the auction the guy asked “So do you want to come and pick it up? Or should i post it?” um…
I couldnt find a 1 cent piece so it was posted
I took some quick pictures of it you can see below. I also managed to find a lens cover for it that was in the bag of accessories i bought a week or so ago, so that was a nice surprise too.
The camera has a great little multi coated 4 element D.Zuiko 40mm f2.8 lens that i’ve seen produce some brilliant results. It doesnt use any batteries but has a solar-powered selenium light meter with an automatic mode and two shutter speeds (1/200 in auto mode and 1/40 for flash sync). Everything works perfectly on it, but i need to replace a light seal as the camera is pretty old. I think its one of the earlier models, they were made from 1967- 1984. Quite a long time.
I’ve already put a roll of film in it with the dodgey light seals just for fun. I wonder if any will turn out.

yeah, it needs a clean too..

Just stumbled on some pics i took when i was in Kyoto so thought i’d muck around with them a bit. I quite like how they turned out.

Just got a quick shot of the sunset out the back of the house the other night. It was pretty stunning. Spring and Summer always bring some very colourful sunsets. They’re usually quite impressive, and a nice end to the day.
I’m curious as to what the shot would look like with some HDR processing. Might give it a try when i get a shot with a more interesting composition.

just heaps busy…
Between all of my assignments, work, friends coming from and going overseas, plus all the Christmas rush, i havent had much time to post anything up here for a while. I’m still taking photos which is great, but havent got most of them developed yet. Its a bit frustrating, as the curiosity is killing me. Damn i wish there was a decent film developer that was local, so i didnt have to travel half way across the city. Next week hopefully i’ll be getting 3 more rolls developed. Fingers crossed they turn out ok =/
Oh, one thing thats been pretty cool is a nice little eBay purchase i made the other week.
I scored a mixed bag of Olympus goodness for next to nothing. I didnt know exactly what was in it until i got it home, but i was plesantly surprised. From the (really dodgey)pictures below you can see the bag and all of these accesories that came with it. The cool part is that most are genuine Olympus too and all are in top condition. I’m pretty happy as i’ll be putting most of it to use.