Mamiya 6

Got myself an excellent condition Mamiya 6 medium format rangefinder camera at a bargain! Totally loving it for its image quality and handling! So far, I think it has the sharpest lens in my entire collection (OK, I know my collection is not a lot...).

One thing I have to get used to is the 6x6 format. I have been shooting 35mm film and I am used to the 1/3 rule. I'm not saying this can't be applied to a 6x6, but some times it just doesn't work. I'm loving this camera! The film advance lever is very smooth and the shutter is very very very silent thanks to its leaf shutter. Plus, it has a Aperture Priority mode, which suits me totally! I mean, I can do manual but if given the choice to use Aperture mode, why not?

Below are some of the shots taken with slides (Kodak Ektachrome 100S and Fuji Provia 400X).

Film Shooters Collective

Recently, I saw this page Film Shooters Collective asking for submissions of film photographs. Being an amateur film shooter, I thought I'll just send in some of my shots to be part of this community. So I submitted a few, with this being my favourite:

Doomsday for Instagram?

Instagram has made an announcement that made many Instagrammers fuming mad. Three months after Instagram has been bought over by Facebook, the first announcement sure made heads turned. The new Privacy Policy and Terms of Service will be effective as of 16th January 2013, so we still have some time to see what they are going to do.

Credits to Mr. Aik Beng Chia for this image

Instant Photo is NOT Polaroid!!!

It irks me to hear people saying how they love their Polaroids when I realised that they are referring to their Fujifilm Instax cameras and films.
 

Comparison of the sizes of the different formats: Top left - Impossible Project film taken in 2010. Top right - Original 600 film taken in 2009. Middle left - Fuji FP-3000 peel apart film. Middle right - Fuji FP-100C peel apart film. Bottom - Instax mini film.

Japan Camera Hunter Film Case!

Recently, I saw on Japan Camera Hunter (JCH) website that he has collaborated with a manufacturer to re-make the film cases that Fujifilm has discontinued. I created a mass order on Clubsnap and received pretty good responses. So I went on to make the order and await the arrival of these new cases.

 They arrived safely!