Hong Kong, a city printed with inkjet

Old stuffs in Hong Kong

Kid shot with K20D

A very naught boy! XD

Edited with Lightroom

June 4, 2013 at Victoria Park, HK

 

The low light performance was very impressive indeed.  I was using ISO6400 in many of the above photos, which is already sensitive enough for candle lights.  The pictures, are very low in noise and have good details.  I was just shooting jpeg, surely will get better result if shot in RAW.

My K20D dead

With years of abuse, my K20D finally dead a few months back.  Well, it's not dead. It's very strong indeed, except I have broken the top cover and resulted in malfunction of the mode dial and light-meter switch, which makes the multi-segment meter and P mode gone.  Not a very big deal for me.

However, another problem make me put away the K20D in the deepest corner of my camera box forever:  it's a strange horizontal line on EVERY picture I took with K20D, jpeg or RAW.  At first, there was a dead pixel on every pic.  Easy fix with Pentax because K20D comes 'pixel mapping' function, handily in the setup manual.  It turns out to be a disaster:

INSTEAD OF JUST ONE DEAD PIXEL, A HORIZONTAL LINE TOGETHER WITH MAPPING ARTIFICE APPEARS ON EVERY PIC.  (See below pix)

While dead pixel can be easily fixed in Lightroom, the mapping artifice is very troublesome because I have to fix it manually.  

My K20D served a good 70,000 shutter count. So I just let it R.I.P. in my camera dry box. Amen,

I get a used K5 instead.

Street of Taipei

Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan

Contrast and color tuned in Lightroom.

Street of Tai Chung

I like those fingers. LOL

Instagram snap

The world has changed a lot.  Sometimes, I will use my phone to take snaps.  It works slowly, there is no depth-of-field control, but it does have the instantaneous as of Polaroid.  I like it indeed.

Street of Seoul

It was freezing -5 deg C. No one really wanted to stay on the street for too long. This beggar, without both legs, put himself on wasted tyre and dragged himself along the icy floor with his damaged hand.

Sad.

Sad Chimp

Back from my ski trip at Yongpyong, S. Korea

Took by Olympus T-610, a Tough P&S camera.

Depressed

Untitled snap with Pentax DA21 / 3.2 AL

A street snap with my beloved DA21, my "standard" lens for street snap. I love it's small size, but the slow focusing speed of the Pentax system is a bit annoying when doing street snap - it's just not fast enough in some situation.

Sometimes I have to rely on the decade old zone focusing technique, not ideal for digital images because you can easily notice the out-focus with these old-day technique when blow-up on your screen.

Another pic from my recent France trip

Red, and white

A snap in Shanghai

Corner

I am not sure why I like these kind of framing when snapping sad subjects. I just like it.

Baggage

Molome: a phone photo social network for non iPhone users

I don't want to spend my money on the every-one-have-it iPhone, but I really envy the photo-sharing social network such as Instagram. It can edit the photos on your phone, and upload to the social medias directly. Great for sharing quick snaps with your mobile.

I just found the Molo.me from the OVI market, i think it's a good replacement for non IPhone users. There are a few special effect to choose from, and I really like the square aspect ratio of the photos in Molome. Android and Symbian versions are available. Come visit my Molome page HERE.


Below is a snap with my phone I uploaded.