Sunday, December 29, 2013

FED 5B (russian)

I have some time before I book in again, so I decided to take some shots and further test out my Xperia Z1. It's amazing to see how much cellphone cameras have improved in a couple of years.

Anyway... my bro likes taking photos too. And he acquired these two film cameras some time ago, which made me green with envy. Not that they are really expensive or what. But well, it takes a bit of commitment to go into film cameras, not something I can easily do seeing that I came from the digital era.
p.s. my bro is almost 10 years older than me so... yeah

Btw these are really old cameras that he bought 2nd hand. Both which are manufactured in the 1980s.

I think I missed my focus here...

Love the orange accents

Oh yeah, give those artificial grain some lovin'

The FEB 5B is actually kind of a clone of the legendary Leica cameras, which explain why it looks so friggin' similar. It was a poor man's Leica back in those days.

Canon A-1

The frontal assault

Who doesn't love some sexy dials?

Vintage cameras just looks so sexy, not like any of the plastic bullshit we get these days. These old cameras are made of solid metal so there's some heft when carrying them. The marvel of camera engineering seated comfortably in your hands.

Maybe one of these days I'll borrow from my bro to actually go out and shoot something. Developing them will be a pain though. Ah well, I'll just be satisfied with my phone camera for now.

Labels: daily photo, film camera, phone, vintage, xperia z1

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

image from thenextweb

I'm relatively old, at least old enough to go through the advancement of computer technology. Old enough to have witness MS-DOS in action, enough to know what a vinyl record is, what a cassette tape is. (and using them of course)

Now, the interesting thing is that you have apps like Instagram and similar apps which mimics analog cameras. Using all the vintage effects, because that's how images looked like last time. The decomposition of the film causes old pictures to look like that.

But what about kids born in the digital age? With all the crystal clear images that we can get simply using our phones. To think that a handphone is something that didn't really exist in my early days. So, how would they recall the past? My recollection of TVs are of the bulky CRTs, fuzzy images, and a lot of yellow tint for whatever reason. Most of the electronics also turn yellow due to the way it's manufactured in the past. (google if you're interested why)

I'm feeling a little lazy so I'll cut the descriptions short. Do you think that kids these days will look back in their childhood in like "HD vision"? What about future down when we have perfected 3D technology and holograms and shit. Would their vintage pictures become HD in 2D?

I find this very amusing. If you have any family videos when you were younger, you'll remember how shitty the quality is, with all the shaking and whatnot. But look at the videos normal people create today, the quality is orders of magnitude better than movies i n the 80s. This shift in perspective is happening so fast that we can actually see it in action.

And I find this terribly amusing. 

Labels: featured, FFT, food for thought, future, instagram, past, thinking, vintage

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