So yea... I'm blogging now cause I was so tired last night when I wanted to blog on my laptop that I fell asleep on the floor XD. Not the first time either so anyway... Yesterday had programming in the morning and seriously, I felt like I didn't do much... Why? You may ask, I just did a "do until password = "student" and "Loop" and poof... There goes my Lab 8 which is completed. And that was within the first hour, after that I basically was surfing online... I didn't know why I don't feel like programming but oh well...
So after school I went over to Tiong Bahru to give my answer to the shop assistant about my enquires before going home. I came home to do my programming(I do my homework now alright? Not like when I was younger XD) using extended desktop again cause apparently... It's troublesome to flip between Visual Basic and Microsoft Words. After doing like 1/4 of the coding... I kinda gave up more to the fact that I'm lazy hahaha.
I left home at about 5:55 to meet a guy to get my Metz flash and it is huge... Seriously big! Kinda scary but well... Took some test shot last night and it bounced just as well as my FL 50R and it feels more solid. Sadly... It works only with cameras with PC sync sockets... Luckily it has convertors so basically... It works with all my digital SLRs and my PEN as well as all my old film SLRs. But it's kind weird to shoot it with the PEN EE2 or the Pen E-P1, the rest are still alright.
So after meeting and a super crash course on how to use the flash which was basically VERY easy to use if you know how a flash works, but I have no idea why the manual makes it look so complicated. I went for the kopi session at TCC Funan. They asked how many people and I told them 20 and the guy was a little blur but well... They had really good service but I ended up sitting by myself for about 15 minutes... Anyway... Slowly, bit by bit, people came up until everyone was there. Total strength was like 22? Give and take a little and the regular guys were only like... 5 with 1 more of the old guys, namely myself, Mark (Marky), Jimmo (Mojims), Ben (Benares), Krist (Headfonz) and Aryanto (Aryanto). The rest are basically like new guys all ask many questions about the m4/3 which is a good sign that it's growing.
So yea... After the session there was supposed to be a shoot as requested... But quite a number of people went home leaving only myself, Jimmo, Mark, Krist and his friend. Mark drove us to Clarke Quay where we shoot for about an hour since there's nothing much to shoot there. Mark gave Jimmo and myself a ride home leaving Kirst and his friend to shoot cause he was teaching his friend.
And to add... I was using the Olympus Pen E-P2 and well... Lets just say it's a slightly taller E-P1 in black metal with an extra port for EVF(Electronic View Finder) or external microphone. I can say that for that 1 hour I was using it. The EVF is pretty good. It doesn't give me a dizzy spell like the Panasonic compact line with EVFs. I haven't tried the GF1 but the G1 and GH1 were ok but a little bit small as far as I can remember. But basically, other than the 2 art filters Diorama and Cross Process. Along with the port, it is essentially an E-P1. So if one doesn't shoot much videos, just got with the E-P1 even though it doesn't have the EVF. When I replace my E-P1 when it breaks down, I guess I will hardly use the EVF anyway.
So that's all for now... I gotta go to my secondary school friend Roysten's house to check his computer which has been giving him problems. Shall update more tonight. Good day to all!
A few images shot from the 1 hour at Clarke Quay, all shot on E-P2
Grainy film with 17mm, handheld without looking at the screen
Grainy film with 17mm, handheld without looking at the screen
Grainy film with 14-42, handheld looking though EVF
Cross process, not sure about lens, handheld without looking at the screen
Cross process with 14-42, handheld looking through EVF
Grainy film with 17mm, handheld without looking at the screen
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