Photowalk in Penang

I went to Penang during the long weekend break to relax and rejuvenate. It was refreshing to be away from the city. The past few months had been stressful for me.

There's no plan to do anything and just go with the flow and eat my way there. This time around, I brought along most of my film cameras as I need to finish off the roll. And to test out a few vintage cameras that I acquired.

A friend said to me before, why send the camera to fix when you don't know whether it has any defect at all? Why not take the cheaper option of putting a roll of film and start snapping? You can judge for yourself when the photos are developed. That makes sense. And that's what I did.

I am definitely in love with my "new" old Minolta 110 Zoom SLR. The results came out better than expected. There's no need to fix it at all. It has its usual grainy feel to it.

My husband and I took a walk around Penang town in search of the "famed" art murals by Ernest Zacharevic. The sun was scorching hot but it was worth it. I'm glad that we took the walk because some of the murals had fade.

These are taken with the Panasonic Lumix LX5 by Mr Hubs because I was busy with something else.

 

Little Children on a Bicycle - Armenian Street

 

Reaching Up - Cannon Street

 

Boy on a bike - Ah Quee Street

 

Little boy with pet dinosaur - Ah Quee Street

 

Little Girl in Blue - Muntri Street

 

This is a random one that we found. Beautiful.

 

 

 

There are a few more that we did have not found due to limited time. Will be back to Penang during CNY and hopefully look for the others.

Minolta 110 Zoom SLR - 1st test shot roll

My hub bought me a vintage Minolta 110 Zoom SLR for Christmas. I love the unique shape of this camera. Its dimension is 53.5 x 108 x 132mm and weights 430gms. Quite a heavy baby to carry around and it uses such small film. It is powered by two 1.5 volts silver-oxide batteries. (S76 or A76 here in Malaysia) It was a hassle to find its batteries in Malaysia at first because it is the flatten pancake batteries that is hard to find. But we found some at a shop in Subang Parade, selling calculators. And we recently found out that Daiso and Radio Shack carries a lot of this kind of batteries.

Just to share a brief history of this camera if you're interested to know. It is an inexpensive first ever 110mm film format SLR camera produced in the world by Minolta (1976 or 1977). Therefore, it has been around for 36 or 37 years. Previously, the 110mm film format was discontinued due to its lack of popularity. But thank you to Lomography for bringing it back! And I got this camera just in time to test out the new films.

I bought the Lomography Color Tiger 110 because it was the only film available then. It does not disappoint. I was keeping my fingers crossed everytime I take a shot and hope for at least a decent shot. The end result? I got mine back better than I hoped!

Here are some shots around Penang when I did my photowalk :

I've just reloaded the camera with Lomography Redscale Negative Lobster ISO 200. And hopefully it will turn out well. Til then.