Filed under: expired film, holga, lomo | Tags: 120, airplane, airport, asian spirit, busuanga, coron, expired film, holga, lomo, palawan, summer, travel
I woke up this morning and found you weren’t sleeping next to me.
I panicked.
Then I saw you make me a cup of coffee. I fell right back to sleep.
| Holga 120 CFN | Fuji Expired Color Film | Manila Domestic Airport flight to Coron Palawan | May 19 2008 |
Filed under: cross processing, expired film, lomo, smena | Tags: 8m, bangka, camera repair, coron, expired, expired film, fuji, palawan, quiapo, smena, smena 8m, vacation, velvia
| Smena 8M | expired fuji velvia 100 | coron, palawan | May 2008 |
Ok, so in a back post, I promised myself to send my sick Smena 8M to the HongKong Lomo shop where it was purchased. Turns out, it’s more complicated than I thought.
First of all, shipping! It’s gonna cost me 1200Php, which I’m not willing to shell out at this time because of our upcoming vacation.
Filed under: cross processing, expired film, lomo, smena, toy camera, underwater camera | Tags: 35mm, 8m, anawangin, anilao, batangas, coron, cross processing, expired film, fuji, fuji astia, fuji sensia, lomo, palawan, smena, underwater camera, zambales
during the crazy cebu pacific promo rush, nina, karl, jan and i booked cheap flights to laoag, wishing we can pull off pagudpud and vigan all in a weekend’s time on november. wish us luck, as all these thunderstorms are sending us off to daydreams of the beach. this year we’ve covered: anawangin (zambales), coron (palawan) and of course, the standard anilao (batangas). can’t wait for november!
anawangin, zambales (march 2008) | generic plastic focus free 35mm camera | expired fuji sensia asa 100 | xpro |
| banol beach (coron, palawan) may 2008 | fuji astia asa 100 | lomo smena 8m | xpro |
anilao, batangas april2008 | snap snights! underwater camera | some cheap asa 200 color film (forgot, sorry) |
Filed under: lomo, smena | Tags: baguio, coron, focus, how to, lomo, palawan, serendra, smena, smena 8m
I don’t really have SLR knowledge (f/8? f/11? huh?) so buying the smena was a risk – it’s fully manual!
I only know the basic things – if it’s really bright, keep the shutter speed fast, and when it’s dark keep it slow. opposite goes for the aperture – big apertures for the dark and small apertures for the sun. And when you adjust the shutter speed, you have to compensate with the aperture. Am I babbling? Just follow the picture icon guides on the camera. and advise from the manual.
But the other more adventurous thing with the smena is focusing. How the hell does that happen? There’s a “viewfinder” that has been described as nothing better than punching a hole through the camera because really – it has absolutely nothing to do with the lens.
Well, unfortunately I can’t teach you shit about how to do it. The photos below are samples of how you can go wrong. 😀 but i love every one of my photos. I don’t care if they don’t follow the rigid rules of what’s aesthetically pleasing.
Photo one contains francis – perfectly focused, but overexposed. I know, it’s a bad portrait.
Photo two contains Jan, but it seems like the guy behind him with the printed tie was better focused than he is.
Photo three contains Bryan, Thea and Jan. Obviously it’s completely off with nobody in focus at all!
Happy Smena-ing :3
Filed under: cross processing, lomo, smena | Tags: 8m, calauit, coron, cross processing, fuji sensia, lomo, palawan, smena, xpro
For those who went ahead on their life’s adventure, we’ll follow soon! Tomorrow is another day, here in your old haunts, but it’s still cozy. Today is full of sentiment – a cousin is leaving tomorrow, and a friend is leaving on sunday. (I must be patient.) I feel so full of good hopes and wishes, that I feel like bursting, but at the same time, I’m a little worked up thinking ‘when is it my turn?’. Do wait for us. (♥ jessie)
Lomo Smena 8m, Fuji Sensia 100, Calauit Game Preserve and Wildlife Sanctuary (Coron, Palawan)
Filed under: cross processing, expired film, holga, lomo | Tags: coron, cross processing, fuji, holga, maquinit, palawan, velvia
above: taken by Lakay
below: taken by Fish
The wonders of cross-processing! These were taken at Maquinit Hot Springs in Coron, Palawan.
Holga, expired Fuji Velvia slide film (120mm)
-Lakay-
smell that film 