Da Nang thru my lens

Was on a business trip to Da Nang, Vietnam recently and have some time to spare for photography, thanks to the infrequent flight schedule that I have to stay longer than expected.

I was thinking of which camera to bring along for this trip and finally decided to go with the fully manual film camera. Packed my recent acquired Nikon F3, MD-4 motordrive and just 1 lens, the Nikon 85 f.18 AFD and I am all set to go.

It's been a long time since I last shot with films and this trip provides the idea practice site. My aim is to achieve photojournalist style of photography thru my lens of how I view Da Nang City.

On actual usage, the manual camera somehow limit me to shoot slower than usual, to think and compose every single shot properly before firing away. The lack of instant preview test my technical abilities and I can only imagine how my shots will turn out.
It's like back to basic and fundamental. The photos result will be my benchmark if I have pass the test.

I only shot a total of four rolls of films which means 36x4 = 144 numbers of photos, over a period of 6 days. I have 2 rolls of Black and White and 2 rolls of Colour negative. That's is far lesser than when I shoot with digital cam.

Almost can't wait to get the films process and I have it immediately sent to Fotohub the next when I am back in Singapore. The result turns out better than expected and well, it just look DIFFERENT from digital photos. Less sharp, less saturated but more real. And the best part, I do zero, zilch post editing, Point and shoot!

I guess film is going to stay with me for just abit longer.