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Broken Canon EF-S 55-250mm Lens Filter

Written by Nicholas Chan on June 2, 2010 – 1:34 am -

I have my Canon EF-S 55-250mm lens kept in a Lowepro lens case. Today I wanted to take it out to breath some fresh air and surprisingly saw that something’s not right, the lens cap is stuck with the filter. I had to take it out by force.

After taking out, this is what I saw. The lens UV filter is broken now and luckily there’s a filter. No idea how this happened, maybe is knock on something. Gonna go get a new filter soon. Shit, it’s cheap, but I am broke.

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Lomo on SPM

Written by Nicholas Chan on May 20, 2010 – 12:00 am -

Don’t play play. I brought my DSLR everyday during my SPM examination in 2009. But on the last day, I brought my Holga and Diana F+ lomography toy camera with me. I’ve decided and tried to shoot everything left in the roll and here are 3 that I’ve got.

Jing Min jump shot, Taken with Diana F+. Pretty cool right?

Arron with his Hyundai Sonata, fetching his friends back home. Taken with Holga.

Hock Sheng and Jerry after exam. You know what, the photo people didn’t scan this shot, I had to scan it myself, so the color is not so sharp. Self-scan also not bad right?

Tags: Chung Ling High School, clhs, Cool Stuff, fish eye, Friends, lomography, Photography, School Life
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Away to PLKN (Day 50): Lomo on Chung Ling Sports Day I

Written by Nicholas Chan on May 16, 2010 – 2:30 am -

Last year’s Chung Ling High School Sports Day, I brought my Holga with me to school. Put in a roll of 120mm film and I shoot on the nice sunny day. It’s always the best to shoot on a nice sunny day, I like it.

People might thought I am weird a bit last time because hanging to camera, and one feel so toy-ish. But now, lomo toy camera is getting more and more camera. Do you know what’s a lomo camera?

Karate! You see the lights? It’s called light leak.

Mr Mohd Hafiz! My biology teacher in Form 5. Very good person. He was a flag man on the last year’s sports day.

Me.

Me, Min Xiang and Yong Seng.

I miss Chung Ling High School, but not really the sports day. Sports Day is always boring to me. Haha.

Tags: Chung Ling High School, clhs, Cool Stuff, Friends, holga, lomography, Photography, School Life
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He Bought a Canon 500D

Written by Nicholas Chan on December 22, 2009 – 1:09 am -

Let’s talk about last week, I brought my brother to my favourite camera shop, the place where I bought my Canon EOS 400D.

I have been to a few camera shops to buy accessories, I realised that service is very important, there’s shop on Penang Road made me felt fucked up because the people simply quote me price and was so not honest, I don’t like that kind of service, I know what they are up to. So service is very important, be friendly to customer and they will come back again.

I personally recommends Matthew at Click N Snap if you are looking for camera accessories. Doing free advertising for him, wonder do I get any privilege or commission? Haha.

Brother wanted to look for a DSLR but he don’t want to buy in Singapore because the price here is cheaper. We spent like a few hours in the shop because he couldn’t make up his mind. After a long long consideration, he finally bought the Canon EOS 500D body with a Tamron 18-200 lens for RM3.5k.

I did not come home empty handed too, I bought a Chinese brand tripod, pretty solid, a clone to manfrotto. Tripod is a must need although we as a amateur don’t always use it.

Very random! Haha. Suddenly feel like want to buy new DSLR body. My current favourite body is the Canon EOS 7D which can shoot super nice HD video and pictures.

Tags: canon, Lifelog, Photography, Shopping
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Lomography is Not Cheap, But I Like

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 28, 2009 – 2:18 am -

I kept my two toy camera, a Holga and Diana F+ with Fisheye in the cupboard for a long time because I didn’t really have to time to take out to shoot but recently, I brought them out and shoot all the shots I’ve left in the film.

After getting the film to processed, and saw the outcome, my interest came back again. Have been surfing and checking out a lot of toy camera lately and my shopping and wish list increases.

OMG! I am so poor right now. Toy camera is cheap, the build quality is also cheap but I tell you what, it’s not a cheap hobby! Because you will have to spend for films, different type of films, send to shop to process, then scan into digital, it will be expensive.

Well, if you are into it, feeling arts, be sure you save a lot of money, earn a lot of money and never count how much you have spent, it will be a lot.

More shots are coming, don’t wanna post it all once. Not fun. Haha. By the way, the above shot is I did the scan from negative myself. Not bad right?

Tags: Arts, hobby, interest, lomography, Photography, toy
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4 More Days Left Until SPM Ends

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 27, 2009 – 2:35 am -

The SPM is very long, it started from 18th November and will be ending on 14th December which is almost a month, but then the exams are only 9 days and 5 days had past.

Not going to say so far so good now because the last paper I had on Wednesday, Additional Mathematics was pretty challenging, managed to finish all but then I knew I already got a few answers wrong. So hopefully, A it will be.

Tuesday was Moral paper, it was good because I’ve got all the moral values and definition in my head, it still running in there now, I just blah everything out on the paper. That’s the simple part of it, hard part was, a single word different from the definition will result a zero marks, hope I did no mistake.

I had plenty of time after that paper because it ended early in the morning.

Arron.

Wen Quan.

Charles.

Day 6, Additional Mathematics day was like an outing day for me. After paper 1, we had 4 hours in between until the next paper starts. Some went home, to sleep, to read, some stayed in school, some went I-got-no-idea-where and for me, I didn’t want to go home because I didn’t feel like reading, moreover modem spoilt and I couldn’t go online.

Chien Chern, Boon Hooi.

Found friends who were going out and joined them for brunch at Air Itam.

After that, went back to school, finding everyone didn’t want to go elsewhere and nobody wanted to go out with me, so I went to town alone, Prangin Mall, to buy a new modem and to develop my 120mm film. I just got plenty of time at that time, to town, buying, photo shop, and back to school, it just took me an hour.

When back to school, there’s like an hour more till next paper, real bored.

Forgot to mention, that whole day was black and white day, turned on black and white setting and mounted a 50mm lens. Weeeee, and thanks Jing Min for the last shot, skilled.

Tags: Black and White, BNW, chung ling, Chung Ling High School, clhs, Friends, Lifelog, Photography, School Life, spm
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