time goes, you say?

via from the movie, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Time waits for no one.

That is exactly the reason why I cannot wait until my birthday to buy myself a camera. Sure I may have had Bubba last year and sure I may have said that I wanted the Canon Eos 60D, but fortunately enough, Canon released a new model on February 2011 which is a bit like the 60D but only cheaper and just as awesome. It's the Canon Eos 600D which I bought from amazon.co.uk.

So it was perfect timing that I was skype-ing with my friends when the delivery man had just buzzed my flat and I swiftly opened the door for him while grinning like a mad woman, waiting for him to hand me my goodies. I slashed the box open with my house keys and out came flying the brown papers and bubble wrap. 

Finally, after months of saving up, I have my 600D aka. Gaspard. This is the raw-est image of me about to unbox while causing a ruckus.

And now I'm hungry from all this excitement. Time to whip up some sandwich.

UPDATE: within the hour, I made some video test shots.

breathing life to the old cameras

Minolta 110 Zoom SLR Mark II

Kodak KB10

Time-Life camera

Polaroid Impulse

That's history in a basket right there. My parent's old cameras back in the days were a delight to my high-tech eyes because I never really know how to work these things. I was struggling with this old roll of film and feeling defeated, I finally went to my mom to help me with it. She got that thing out in seconds. Faceslap! 

Now the next challenge is to find films for these babies. I'm desperate to get them back from what they used to be. Here's the camera and their film equivalent. I just wish there's still some on sale here in the Philippines. 

Minolta 110 Zoom SLR Mark II = 110 film

Kodak = 35mm film (i think this one's pretty easy to find)

Time-life camera = 135mm film (found!)

Polaroid= Polaroid 600 Plus Film

I have the Time-life camera loaded up already (well, my mom did the loading. I was sleeping). What a thrill to finally have an old camera in my hands. I'll be off for nature walks or city strolls now. I wonder if this camera still makes photo magic after being cooped up in that basket for years.

Well, wish me good luck on my search for the films too. If you know any sites that sells those films please do let me know. Thanks!

monday can be friday

Mondays can be Fridays too. Well, maybe this time. 

Karaoke-d the night away with good friends. 

Orb balls are hot to the fingertip. I wanted to place my whole hand on it though.

I recently purchased Paolo's camera because he said he would never really use it and tada! I named him Bubba. :) This is one small step for me until I actually get the camera of my dreams, Canon EOS 60D.