1. What equipments do you use?
EOS system:
- EOS 3
- EOS 55 (Elan II E)
- 17 - 35mm f2.8
- 28 - 105mm f3.5/4.5
- 50mm f1.8
- 70-200mm f2.8
- 100mm macro
- 2X converter
3rd Party:
- 25mm extender (3rd party)
- 15mm fish eye (3 party)
Filters:
- UV filters
- 81B
- Polariser
- 2 stop Graduate filter
- Carl Zeiss Softar I
2. What films do you use?
I used the cheapest film on the market. Thus I use Sensia almost exclusively, but
occassionally Velvia. I tried the Kodak VS100 for my South America trip and liked the
saturation.
Buying rolls of films is still expensive as compared to bulk film. So I recently switched
to use bulk film, loading them myself on used canister obtained from the labs. I
usedProvia for my trip to Myanmar. I am now using Provia F and Velvia.
For people and record shots, I have no preference on the brand but usually a ASA 100 print
film.For wedding, I use Fuji NPH.
3. What scanner do you use?
I used to have the Nikon Coolscan II slide scanner.
The results are usually excellent. However, it shows the limitation of 24 bit when
scanning details in shadows and the blacks are 'dirty'.
To use the scanner, you have to buy a SCSSI card seperately and only a few specific models
are compatible. This will burn your wallet another S$250 and the hassle to install.
I'm now using the HP Photosmart S20 which cost about S$800. It has a USB connection and
thus no SCSSI card is required. It is a 36 bit slide & print scanner which
receives equally good review as the highend Nikon LS2000 that cost almost S$3000!
4. How do you produce such small size
graphic files?
First, I save them as high resolution TIF files which are about 5MB. I'll do the
necessary colour adjustment with an image software to much the orginal color of the
slides. I'll then reduce the size and save them as JPG. The resulting size will then be
about 20K - 50K.
5. Can I use your images?
Please refer to the copyright notice.
6. What is the price of XXXX equipment?
Don't ask me, I'm not a photo retailer.
Ask them instead.