I'm trying to shoot for these days. Actually I find myself using film more often than not (it's going to be a month or so before I get any of those back and digitized). But the DP1 makes for good company sometimes. I often just keep it in my backpack. Though the sights are often the same these days as I just travel mainly on the same walk to and from work.
I spend too much of my budget at convenience stores and eating out, though I am trying to cut back. It's easy though to stop on the way home from work and grab a guava juice or something.
Finishing work at midnight on the weeknights is okay. I like how quiet the city gets. The weekends are a bit more...something.
Silette LK
Silette LK, originally uploaded by jaeming.
I think this camera is one of the Agfa Silettes that dates from the 1970's.
One of the reasons I bought this camera (cheaply) was because I dug the idea that it had no Battery. It has a built-in light meter (no battery needed) of course.
I remembered this recently when I came across this, photographing with no batteries article: http://www.feelingnegative.com/camerabag/photographing-without-batteries
It really appeals to me to have an all mechanical camera loaded up with film, in which I never have to worry about the battery status.
I haven't got any digitized photos from this camera yet but here is a gallery of a few from other users:
www.flickr.com/photos/jaeming/galleries/72157623519346474/
My girlfriend recently took a visit home to China. She asked if she could use my camera, a sigma DP1. I had recently used it to take some photos of her graduation and she loved the results. I was hesitant since my girlfriend knows next to nothing about using this camera. As it turns out, she didn't take many photos but I was impressed by the ones she did. Here are a few below:
Handheld with the mirror-up mode. A bit over-exposed as well. Used the beautiful and classic Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4 lens.
The SD14 is not particularly known for it's ISO 1600 performance, but I like a challenge 
for the view
Recently visited Wellington. It was a nice reset but I can't but help feeling I'd like a more extended holiday. Coming this December hopefully 
we see what we see
The SD14 is performing beautifully, though I haven't had nearly as much chance to use it yet as I would like. I feel limited without a car. The city is diverse but there are a lot of people who frown at a big DSLR being pointed at them so for now I'm sticking mainly to still life.
an open window..
I had just gotten a package with my 24mm f/1.8 lens and though I was already running late for work, I took the time to fire off a daylight test shot looking out from my window.
I've tried to keep the colors faithful here from the original, just added a bit of contrast and a tiny bit of saturations. They say the Sigma SD14 doesn't have reliable AWB but I'm finding that kind of fun and really liked the color tones here.
satellite skies
This is where I work. DP1 shot. Inspired from the last post, I'm still playing with green/blue tones.
a building sees the sky…
I was giving the DP1 workflow an alternative try-out with Adobe Lightroom. The colors seems to be a little more flat and generally I find most of the presets available for Lightroom to be too severe.
This one worked out a bit more nice though. It was originally underexposed and a polaroid-type preset brought up the exposure and added a nice contrast, not to mention some interesting cyan/green tones.