Mamiya Six Photos
Works fine in daylight but a bit hard to focus under lowlight or indoors.
Dream camera
Finally bite the bullet with a Mamiya Six, a rather obscure variation with the Copal shutter B-1/200s
Infrared Trichrome
Hugin can align images better than I can by hand on GIMP
Zooming into Spring
Honestly it's fixed 100mm.
Focus stacking
Turns out one can focus stack in postprocessing.
2024
This one's gonna be good.
Yunnan
Should have done this more.
Maybe get a car too.
Holidays
As busy as any working day with all the gathering
Making a choice
It's so hard to tell, whether not making a choice is a better choice
Reorganizing life
Time, money, energy
Desk clock
My new California dial Bubble back build has spent more time sitting as a desk clock than being on my wrist.
Which is probably fine, consider it a convertible.
More DIY watches
AF macro ring works, but XT-20 doesn't have focus stacking so it's a blurry mess.
Seafood
Jelly fish
Kinda hard to nail the focus.
Stereograph would have been cool.
Let's crank up the fire before life gets dull
Light at the end of the tunnel
The tunnel seems neverending and is only getting darker.
The baggage gets heavier too.
I assemble watches
That's why I am not taking photos.
Also my eczema is healing. For the second summer god doesn't want me to go out.
Summer
Red filter.
450mm equivalent
Good times
Good glass really work like magic.
Stable Diffusion
Impressionistic photo.
IMAX film
So shooting IMAX film on medium format actually gives me less image per frame due to the sprocket holes.
Losing its handle to aging
Zooming in
Shanghai GP3 100
This film pushes well up to ISO 400. I don't really need the 400 version if I can push it any time I want.
Midjourney Photography
Add something and change something, rather uncontrollably.
Good tool for image play.
Spits out interesting image but not photography.
It's lacking the experience.
Impressionism via Midjourney
Coins
I love money.
Film vibe with a phone
Stuff I saw on the street
Going candid
Definitely can but not sure if I did
That guy on the right
He knows the drill.
Rollei RPX 400 is the flattest film base I have ever used
TLR selfie
Achievement unlocked.
No more TLR.
No more convertible with reduction mask.
There was only myself shooting this photo.
Cyanotype
The chemical I bought didn't work so digitally.
The key is to cut off both ends of the curve, invert color, crank up temperature, then invert back.
Lubitel 166U
Not sure how to focus properly. Maybe I don't need to.
Hidden folks
Blending right in.
Film price
I just realized I can get 20 rolls of Shanghai GP3 for the same amount of money I spent on Lubitel 166U.
大阪 Osaka
宇治 Uji
出雲 Izumo
米子 Yonago
鳥取 Tottori
湯郷温泉 Yunogo Onsen
厳島 Itsukushima
広島 Hiroshima
There is no road
There are footprints left by others, but there's no a perfect way to go.
Japan Trip (2019)
Maybe I like looking forward to it than actually going.
Waterfall
Sometimes things look more 3D in black and white and I don't know why.
Even Semi Leotax
A triplet can do this. Meanwhile I am somewhat disappointed by corner sharpness of Tessar.
Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens
The kind of things middle-age women get crazy about.
Very wide and very long
Stitching panorama becomes quite easy with Hugin.
Excited looking flowers
Edge sharpness
Not sure whether it's misaligned lenses or just how Industar-24 works.
Free space
A photo stream of my own allows me to post my photos freely.
Post-processing
As long as there's good light and composition, most other things can be post-processed pretty well.
Getting back to work
The last day of a long holiday is always hard.
Dreamlike
Some scenes just look perfect if I stay away and not looking at it the second time.
Looking forward to
Trip to Japan in 3 weeks.
Autumn leaves in black and white
I like the perceived depth along the road.
My Friend
Sometimes I hope he look beyond a shadow.
Afternoon in Lamma Island
Surreal scene of total darkness outside despite the bright afternoon sunlight.
Suspicious people
Crank up the suspiciousness with Luminar AI.
I couldn't help it.
Autumn leaves in Tsing Yi Park
Stitched together a couple photos because even 100mm is too long for park landscape.
Ended up shooting birds like those middle-aged people. Lovebirds included.
Christmas and New Year
Developed the roll of Shanghai GP3 100 shot during late December.
In respective order: Lamma Island, Pokemon trading card unboxing, Tabletop game day, Cup noodle before New Year sunrise.
Parents parenting
Sunrise on June
Feel the silence and summer morning breeze.
Mount Rokko, Hyogo, Japan
Two edits of the same photo, not sure which one is better.
Leaning on
The state of nature is we are all alone. Yet we can also choose leaning onto something, thereby making some of us less lonely.
300mm
Stacking hills looking almost cartoonish.
Nostalgia
Bulk loaded Kodak 5294
Bulk loading is fine as long as they make sure it's usable up till the last shot. I could maybe treat this as a half-frame shot though.
Taiwanese rain tree
We've got three of these downstairs, all starting to turn yellow as it gets cold.
First sunrise of 2023
Last sunset of 2023
Goodbye 2022!