Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Faces in Chow Kit market

* Don't smoke and ride *

It is public holiday again today! Woke up early in the morning and join the Shutter Therapist group for some shooting. We have a quick breakfast at Kin Kin Restaurant before heading to our shooting location, Chow Kit market.

* Catch it! *
* Hobby? *

Brought along my newly gained Yashica FX-3 super 2000 as well for some testing and real life experiences using fully mechanical manual camera. As I expected, it is never easy especially when come to ISO limitation. Well, I shall talk more about this after I developed the film roll and blog about it. I am pretty sure photo will turn out badly :/ oh well.. experiences

* One of my favourite shot of the day. The lighting filling on his face just right *
* Price tag *

I am given 75mm f1.8 this time around instead of shooting with 45mm f1.8. I have to admit that luckily I did not get the 75mm but 45mm instead. Don't get me wrong! The lens is very very really good and sharp! The only thing I couldn't accept is the focal length. 75mm is too tight! We are shooting in Chow Kit market and the place is tight. So yea, lens tight, place tight, hence my framing also tight. Then I told myself that it is my chance to just get headshot around for facial expression instead of playing with composition. Thus, this post photos all mainly focus on human faces shot by Olympus 75mm f1.8.

* Sharpness in 75mm in f1.8! *




I had to admit I am still not steady enough handling the lens. The market is abit dark in the indoor and I am force to push my camera ISO to 800 to shoot. But then again the shutter hardly reach my desirable value hence most of my shot turn out hand shake blur.. I wonder will the problem fix if I am handling Olympus E-M5, E-P5 or E-M1 which came with 5-Axis image stabilization :P



Overall, great experience with 75mm except it is being too tight and not suitable for the location today. Would be better if I use my 45mm f1.8. Oh well, I guess shooting headshot only wouldn't be that bad also right except those pics came out need really to be sharp. I need practise more!

Monday, November 04, 2013

Honda Hybrid Family Road Trip: A Journey to Ipoh

* My Honda Civic Hybrid.. I wish *

Finally! A time for me, myself and I to blog! If you saw my Instagram, I went for a short trip to Ipoh courtesy of Honda Malaysia. It would be my first time driving other car than Myvi and not to mention, it is Hybrid car! I am blessed to get Civic Hybrid from Honda Malaysia and the color just simply stunning & gorgeous!




* Awesome looking dashboard! *

Not gonna compare my Myvi with this car. It is far aparts in terms of everything. The Honda Civic Hybrid is big in size, larger interior which is very comfy inside and also awesome engine sound that nearly zero. Alright I'll talk more about the hybrid car when we go along the post ;)



Most of us bloggers stop by at Rawang R&R for a quick breakfast before start our journey to Ipoh. Heard that this is a must try Nasi Lemak. Not bad and wouldn't mind to have another one if I didn't get my breakfast earlier at home.


Done eating breakfast, we actually stop by nearest petrol station for some photo session with the cars. You know, being bloggers, photos is a must. In addition of video as well now. I am the driver of the day in Ipoh since my partner, Boni would love to drive on the next day.


So yea, we reach Ipoh after almost 2 hours driving - I didn't speed! Safety and follow the rules come first k? :P Eventhough I admit I do tempted to step more on the oil pedal to speed. There was once the car already on 160km/h speed without me realizing it. What can I say? It is damn steady car that I don't even have feel when the car already speed at 160km/h.



Alright back to the topic. We reach Ipoh and the first stop we are heading is the Tesco for the Honda roadshow. There are few activities going on in the roadshow such as car exhibition, test drive session, games, eco green bazaar and performances from local artists at night time. Check out my Instavideo for the Honda milestone in achieving eco green technology.


Oh wait, did some of you wondering what is hybrid car means? To put it simple, hybrid mean 2 or more things combine become one. In this case, Honda hybrid car is powered by an engine and assisted by an electric motor. Is that means it save petrol? YES! That's it if you remember to click on the ECON green button in your car :P That's the reason why Honda hybrid is a eco friendly car. Dont worry, the electric motor will recharge the battery whenever you step on the break. Good for during jam period huh? :P


The Honda's i-VTEC engine is assisted by an Intelligent Motor Assist (IMA) to generate powerful acceleration and impressive performance as well. Now that explain how I can speed until 160km/h without realizing it. Opss

Done with the roadshow, few of us tempted to visit some heritage area around Ipoh. Honestly, I dunno Ipoh have so many heritage places! The journey to Ipoh this time around it pretty fresh and new for me. Not to mention awesome foods! I will blog about it in saperate post :P









Went to the temple nearby and it catch my attention quickly. I always love to visit temple because it is a symbol and proved of existing of a religion. Too bad I couldn't read Chinese or else I really can stay there whole day learning the history and etc. Good job for them too for preserving all this heritage places for so long. Nah, don't worry we can contribute too in preserving the environment by start getting yourself... ourself a hybrid car! Save fuel, less pollution, greener environment! Sound like a good idea right? ;)



We went to visit Kellie Castle too. Another heritage building that worth visit if you never been to there.





Awesome landscape and architecture around there! Wouldn't mind to have some photoshooting session at there or even my wedding photo maybe? Haunted? Nah don't really care as long as the environment are preserved and well taken care.

Unfortunately we couldn't visit next location as we rushing back to the roadshow for performances on night time.



First time listening Danny One & Gina live. Just suddenly feel good when Danny One decided to sing "Love & Freedom" where I also followed him to sing along. He forgot the lyrics though.




The only song I like from Gina is "Forever". Well who care, Jing Ling is cute :3








Overall, awesome experience with Honda Civic Hybrid! If may be not as fast as Honda CRZ, but it is more spacious and ideal for people who love to car pool. Well, more specious = can fit 5 people = car pool = can save petrol + is hybrid car = save environment! Ok I got an awesome logic here because I already tempted to get one Civic Hybrid for myself. Oh did I mentioned that I actually got the car on Friday with full tank and when returning the car on Sunday after back from Ipoh, the petrol tank still got around 15-20% petrol left? I never pump the petrol at all this 3 days and I am very sure I used alot in Ipoh during hunting foods around with friends. If I remember correct the petrol consumption is around 15-14km per litre.

So if you wanna test drive a Honda Hybrid for 3 days 2 nights, just register yourself at http://bit.ly/IQcsrI. It is FREE of charge as long as you own a valid MyKad and Driving Licence!Yayyyy to Honda, the power of dreams!

For more information about HONDA, visit www.honda.com.my or www.fb.com/hondamalaysia.

All photos taken with Olympus E-P3, Olympus 12mm f2 and also Olympus 45mm f1.8. More photo in my Jackie A Journey Called Jloi Facebook Page :)

Saturday, November 02, 2013

My first Full Frame camera

Finally busy period is over!! Expecting more updates from my blog now :D So it is November already without realizing. Hope it is good month to go for everyone and we are heading to year 2014 very soon! So yea, I will be updating my Ipoh trips with Honda and also the remaining HK post coming next! But today I just wanna share something with everyone. I got a new camera! Nop not Olympus EM-1. I am patiently waiting for this and they don't have full frame yet. Sony A7/A7R? nop not Sony too. It is...


Ta daaaa! Yashica FX-3 Super 2000! Deary bought it for me from Thailand. It is SLR camera with fully manual setting! Been always wanna get a SLR to play with which is Olympus OM series. You know, sometime it is good to back to basic and classic. So yea, it is Yashica. Unfortunately it using it's own C/Y mount and can't use m42 LUL..guess I gonna pay a visit to Ebay soon for getting M42 to C/z mount adapter so that I can use my Carl Zeiss 50mm f2.8 which has 14 aperture blades for BOKEH!!


The lens I am having at the moment is 35-70mm f3.5. It is good enough for normal usage but I would love to play bokeh with my Carl Zeiss and also Helios 58mm f2. You must think I am crazing for owning so many camera now - Olympus E-P3, Sony HX50V, Yashica FX-3 and soon to come Olympus OM-D E-M1. Not gonna sell off my E-P3 since it has personal value in it.



Would love to bring it out for a street shooting someday with this Yashica. Ouch developing films gonna be costing :/