Back and expect more regular updates here!!

Greetings people! Have'nt been posting here regularly mainly due to work commitments and also i have been busy travelling for holiday trips! But I promise I will be posting here on a a regular basis once again! I have a whole batch of photos from trips to Malacca, Tanzania and Sydney coming up! As well as some photography gear reviews that I have been planning to get out on the blog. So do look forward to it! ... In the mean time here are some of the shots I took while on my trek in Tanzania, Africa. I went there in late August, and no there was no ebola crisis over there ( that was mainly in western Africa and Tanzania is in the east)and most of us were pretty cautious of our hygiene during the trip.

These photos were taken during the trek up to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the world's highest free standing mountain standing at 5895m above sea level...more pictures will follow soon i promise! =)

B/W Film in Hong Kong

Just sharing a couple of film photos i took while exploring Hong Kong. Still in my opinion the most interesting place for street photography in Asia...well besides Tokyo,Japan that is..:)

Taken with Nikon FE,50mm 1.4 Ais and neopan 400.

Back after a long hiatus....

It seems like ages since i last wrote here. Well things have been rather busy for me. Starting a new a job, travelling around to different countries to sate my wanderlust...So yeah since now that things have settled down, ill probably start posting photos here again. Or you guys could just go to my flickr page to check those out too!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/grievor/with/11681757324

Just a couple of photos from my trip to Macau. Beautiful little place. All taken with the Fuji X100s.

A week with the Google Nexus 7

A week with the google Nexus 7

Just got my hands on the 2013 edition of the Nexus 7 by google . Going to have a week to play around with it and give my opinion on it. Having said that I am no stranger to android , having used the galaxy nexus, HTC oneX+ and galaxy note 2. However it was a definite first for me to own a device with the 7 inch mid range form factor and so far I am actually loving it. ( also pure vanilla android on the device always helps :) )

Shall update this space once I have thoroughly put the nexus 7 through a week of real world usage ! 

Well after a week of using this tablet, what are my thoughts about it? 

Specs aside ( you can probably find this with a simple google search) , I feel that for its price it a hell of a jem! Scrolling and browsing through the tablet was buttery smooth with no lag and the screen is sharp and crisp. Only gripe i had with it was that the camera wasnt very good.. but hey its a tablet! And probably that android apps werent as stable as compared to iOS ones. But all in all a real steal and good product from google!

FujiFilm X100s

Fujifilm X100s

As mentioned in my previous post, I made the decision to sell my nikon dslr gear and invested in a nice epson v600 scanner to take my film photography more seriously. However this being the 21st century how can i not own a digital camera ?

Here is The Fujifilm X100s my new go to digital camera. 

The reason why I picked the X100s was firstly because of its size and weight. Using nikon DSLRs and heavy F2.8 lenses i have come to realise that I honestly and truly hate carrying around my camera with me.It was bulky and heavy, kept getting into my way when i slung it by the camera strap. It was just uncomfortable for street/travel photography which i mainly shoot. Now i could have opted for something like the olympus om-d or even the xpro-1 /xe-1...however i wanted something with an optical viewfinder and compact( Xpro-1 isnt as compact as i thought it was) . So the X100s was the perfect choice for me. Together with its improved focusing system with phase and contrast detection and the new x trans cmos sensor, this baby produces fantastic images~! Will include a couple of samples below to show you what i mean. 

The retro "rangefinder" look, the manual shutter speed and aperture controls are something i fell in love with when i was using my film camera and I was so glad Fuji added these features into their X series cameras.

All in all i am really pleased with this jem of a camera and I will update this post or probably add another post after i have more time to shoot with it.

Really excited to take this camera out and shoot with it. It does exactly what I i want it to do for my type of photography .

The only think that would make me stray from this camera, is that Fuji comes out with a Full Frame XPro camera....Now that is something irresistible

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Taking film photography seriously..

Well the day finally came where i decided to take my film photography seriously...So one fine day i decided to sell ALL OF MY digital gear, (D7100 ,17-55 2.8,35 1.8,85 1.8 etc) and move entirely to film. Well since i already have my Nikon FE and my 50mm 1.4 Ai-s lens ( which is probably the only lens i would ever need to do the kind of photography i like)...what else would i need other than more film? 

Lo and behold the Epson V600 scanner..! This beast of a scanner wasnt cheap and honestly if you asked me a year ago i would say that you have to be crazy to fork out so much money for a flat bed scanner. But yeah i got it and the scans it produces from my film negatives are amazing! Wont go into details on the specs but here are a few samples right from the scanner.

All in all I felt that the V600 was a great buy, especially for those who are really serious about film photography.

However this being the 21st century i cant do with out a digital camera right.......( continued in the next post)