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上星期四下午，我跟朋友到了TVB電視城參觀。大學時，因為Raleigh International Mountain Marathon 的關係，到過清水灣一趟，那一次是因為公事。
這一次就完全不同，是參觀，去了古裝街、民初街、一廠........我當然會用相機拍一拍。
拍了11張，有8張都很滿意...........可到這裡看是那8張。

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1. TVB in Wiki
2. Raleigh International HK

Today, I passed thou’ PageOne in Tsim Sha Tsui, I found this toy for kids. This is one of the items in the series “Kids Lab”.
This is not just a toy, this is a real camera. If you wanna try to take pinhole image, you may buy this camera because it gives you convenience and great enjoyment at cheap price, the selling price is HKD100. On the other hand, it is a good illustration to teach people how camera works, how to take the images.
It uses 135mm film, which means you are not required to develop the film in darkroom, just pass the films to the developing film shops and digitalize the films. In long term, you save a lot of time and money in developing the films.

Extension
1) Pinhole camera in Kids Lab, Fun science.
2) There are many good toys for kind in 4m-ind.com

我對自己一向都吝嗇得很，對上一次買禮物給自己已經不知道是何年了。〈相機不算吧，因為那些是二手，能賣的〉
這年聖誕買了一份禮物給自己，就是這台 zero2000。它是一台針孔相機，由一個香港人設計及人手製造的，所見的金屬全是黃銅，木上的油是人手一層一層塗上的，我以前也用木做了一台，當然沒有這台方便及漂亮，但工料也要200多元，而這台則是1300元。其實800元也可以買到，我很佩服他設計的 shutter， 所也花多些買它回來。詳情請到這裡，然後指向 Deluxe Version，再指向相機上的 shutter，你便會明白加上 shutter 繩後，就可解決手震的問題了。

這些是用它來拍的：

	1. Lamma.winds	2. Wedding	3. Dinning
	4. Dinning	5. First Image by Zero2000	6. Lamma
	7. X’mas Party	8. Dinning	9. Wedding

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1. ZeroImage

每天都是拖箸疲倦的身軀回到公司.................這就是香港人最寫實的一面。

我的辦公室...

十二月八日
從今天開始，我的防潮櫃裡沒有相機了，只餘下一大堆拍完的菲林，有點失落！
這天是最後一天擁有XpanII，已找到買家。相機裡還剩下10張還未拍的菲林，上班時我便提起它隨手拍。
其實菲林相機有它的一大好處，就是會讓大家謹慎行事，不會什麼也拍，無論在構圖或曝光都會思前想後，還會使人期盼，因為過程需時。

我對菲林還是有一份堅持，我會用針孔相機來繼續我的菲林拍攝.....................tbc

Eventually, I found buyers to buy all my equipment. Today was my last day to keep them.

Lenses: Nikon AIS 50mm f/1.4 , AF 24mm f/2.8
These 2 lenses are very sharp and good for landscape. I sold to a guy in 2nd hand market.

Camera: FM2 + 35-70mm f/2.8-4
This set I sold to my church mate under market price. Honestly, I am afraid that she doesn’t know how to use and too heavy because FM2 is full manual camera. I hope she like it, or else, if she finds difficulties, she can resell to me.
FM2 is extremely good for beginner.

My Love, Hasselblad Xpan II + 45mm
This camera was the most expensive item I spent in my life, even MUCH more expensive than my laptop (It is talking about 2 laptops exchange 1 Xpan2). This is a rangefinder camera with dual format, you can take 2 frames (1 frame is 24mm x 35mm, 2 frames are 24mm x 69mm) at once. We call it as “panorama”.

Remark: The production line of Xpan has been ceased. Only in 2nd hand market you may find. Also, the official website of Xpan.com was not working, it has been forward to hasselblad.com and I couldn’t find any news about Xpan in Hasselblad already. Sound likes disappearing…..

The only official website I could find is his twin brother, TX2 of FujiFilm.
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1) FujiFilm TX2
2) Photos taken by Xpan.

Finally, I made a decision to give up film and change back to digital.
I used “back” because my first camera was digital – Nikon Coolpix 5000. Buying this camera was for travel.
At that year, I took a creative workshop – photography in UST. Lecturer spent 2 lessons to teach us making a pinhole camera by paper. The concept was extremely simple. You just need a dark-Box, no light can entry in the box except a hole in front and located a light-sensitive material at the back. This is what we called – pinhole camera.
At the beginning, we used photo-paper as light sensitive material, ISO 12, that’s why you may notice one of my photo in flikr took me a 4 hours to finish, but still failed. After developing the sense on metering (Light), we used film, I was astonished by the quality of films.
As a result, I resold my DC and bought a full manual camera Nikon FM2 to learn photography by myself.
By learning pinhole photography, you would learn a lot of useful skill and many concepts, especially developing the senses on angel of view because of no view finder, the concept of “depth of field”, and your sensitivity on light. I strongly recommend people who really want to learn photography, start with Pinhole, extremely useful.

Film has been engulfing by digital gradually, many camera and film factories have announced the film’s business was closed. I totally understand the reason, for example, the cost on taking 1 roll of slide, equal to the cost of slide (HKD35) + Developing (HKD30) + scanning(20), which is around HKD90 + time cost.
How about digital? You know the answer immediately.

.....................................................................................To be continue
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1) Photo taken by Pinhole camera using photo paper.
2) Photo taken by Pinhole camera using T-max film.

人勁，真的沒有辨法！HeHe

Today, I got an invitation from one China press—Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
They’re going to publishing a magazine called Spotlight by co-operating with Spotlight-Verlag in Germany. There is an interesting column “Panorama China”, which collects short writing pieces with photos taken in different places of China. And they will offer me remuneration.
This is my honor to receive this invitation, which allows me to increase the exposure in China. Very happy, Hehehehehehehhehehehhe!!

They read my photos thou’ flickr and then send me an invitation. I really recommend people to use flickr to share your photos, many cool photographers are using this to do so, I am just an amateur photographer, you may click my contact list in flickr, so that you view great photos taken by geniuses.

The following is a brief introduction of the Spotlight:
Spotlight’ is a unique lifestyle magazine designed for young, professional adults at an intermediate to upper-intermediate English level. Spotlight draws upon a wide spectrum of topics including current cultural and political issues, travel, literature, music, arts and business, resulting in a truly globalized perspective and a highly engaging read.
Spotlight is a monthly publication and each 64 page-issue comes with an audio CD containing recordings of all interviews and dialogues from the magazine. Spotlight’s fantastic visual appeal, up-to-date articles and language support are just a few of its attractive features.

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1)Their magazines, http://www.ell.com.cn
2)My Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinreader
3)My contacts in Flickr