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About Me Member Portrait Photographer Shiro Ang Yeong Hui22/Male/Singapore Recent Activity Deviant for 6 Months
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  • Current Residence: Singapore
  • deviantWEAR sizing preference: M
  • Print preference: Matte
  • Interests: Music, photography, films, guitar, drums, baseball, soccer, anime, manga, audio equipments, gaming
  • Favourite movie: Godfather, Pulp Fiction, City Of God, Infernal Affairs, Fight Club, Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo, Amelie.
  • Favourite band or musician: Iron Maiden, Dio, Beyond, Dream Theater, Skid Row, Tokyo Jihen, RATM, SOAD, Muse to name a few.
  • Favourite genre of music: Heavy/Power/Progressive Metal, Rock, Blues, Bossa Nova, Jazz and Funk.
  • Favourite artist: Range Murata, Hyung-tae Kim, Masamune Shirow, Tohru Fujisawa, Harold Sakuishi, Oh! Great, IFS
  • Favourite poet or writer: David Eddings, Neil Gaiman
  • Favourite photographer: Ciril, Zhang Jingna, Todd Owyoung, Hakan, Lara Jade, Sascha Huettenhain, Winterwolf, Nikola Borissov
  • Operating System: OS X Leopard
  • MP3 player of choice: Cowon D2 -> Cyro Silver X Copper -> iBasso D3 -> Triple.fi 10 Pro (Null Audio Enyo Cable)
  • Shell of choice: C.C.
  • Wallpaper of choice: C.C.
  • Skin of choice: Human
  • Favourite game: Life
  • Favourite gaming platform: I want a PS3 to play MGS4
  • Favourite cartoon character: Shiro Amada
  • Personal Quote: Got meh? (Lynn, thanks ah.)
  • Tools of the Trade: D300 + D70

Dad's camera equipment

Sun May 31, 2009, 8:30 AM
After a few years of saying, that is my mom will dig out my dad's camera equipment in the storeroom.

Today, after selling off my guitar amp, I decided to dig it out myself, since also in the pre-moving house mood.

Took less than a couple minutes for me to find out where it is, since I saw a camera bag.
(Well, you will notice a camera bag, if you seen enough of it, or you're a photographer.)

With anticipation and excitement, I open it up, saw a Nikon lens cap.
Dang! My dad is a Nikon user too!

Saw another pile covered in cloth, I quickly unwrapped it, and I found a Nikon F3HP + Nikon AIS 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5, and at the other side it was a camera flash, Nikon SB16.

Not surprised that the lens is full of fungus, man it has been 19 years since my dad has passed away, the puny 3 packets of silica gel is not going to last that long.

Camera body itself is in excellent condition, though the mirror and prism has minor fungus too, and the film back side-lining has dried out.

Flash is probably quite gg in my opinion, cause the batteries are in, means that it will probably corrode by now, and true it has.
Cleanup and remove all those corroded stuff, slot in new batteries, but doesn't seem to power on.

Anyways, I will attempt to bring everything to life once again, it's a memorabilia of my dad (which I have almost close to none memories of him), so I want to service it myself.

Camera body: Probably the easiest for me to service.

Lens: Not that easy, and not that hard also. Probably will look up on the net to find step by step lens cleaning, will probably ask fatigue on Clubsnap for tips if he don't mind sharing.

Flash: This is probably the hardest, don't even know whether the circuit itself is spoil by long years of non-usage, or the contacts that are damaged by the corroding stuffs (which is cleared away by me already though).

Will spend a bit of time daily on it, to bring the equipments to life.

Laters,
Shiro

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Mechanical tested the F3HP, winding ok, shutter speed ok, left putting a roll of film into test for the accuracy of shutter speed.
(Cleaned the mirror, bottom prism, exterior viewfinder, detach/screw-out/cleaned focusing screen.)
Other than that, the illumination in the prism doesn't seem to work (even with fresh batteries for the body), light seal foam has deteriorated, and I'm not able to clean 2 parts of fungus.

1) Internal of the prism, from what I figured, I need to strip the rubber seal (probably to prevent water or dust to get in), and unscrew several mountings and disassemble few parts to reach it.
Not going to strip it, cause I'm not confident to glue the rubber seal back as of now.

2) In the middle of the focusing screen, same as above, it's glued in between the glass and acrylic plate.

The focusing screen suffer minor fungus/haze growth, but the internal prism (internal viewfinder) has major fungus in there.

I mean all these doesn't affect anything to the image, but it makes focusing and viewing through it distracting, and yes I did say I want to bring it to a good condition as much as possible.

Next, I will probably find out on replacing/buying light seal foams, after that is to strip the lens out for experimenting and cleaning.

Nights,
Shiro

  • Mood: Optimism
  • Listening to: The Veronicas - Untouched
  • Watching: Going to watch Terminator 4: Salvation later
  • Playing: Did some maintenance to dad's equipment

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you have some great photography skills, and I'm featuring you in my next journal :)

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...Do you go ninja in the night?
:gallery:
Be sure to check out my gallery!
Thanks for the compliments and feature! :)

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whee!thanks for the fav!.8D
You're welcome Tamagogo!

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Love your gallery!! ^_^

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The body is a masterpiece show it to the world ^_^
Thanks. :)

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hey there. i was hoping i could get your permission to put up your kuroshitsuji cosplay pictures on my cosplay site on bebo! I have a cosplay site that helps people learn about cosplay and where people who have questions can ask.

here's the link: [link]

would help out alot to get your permission and of course I'll put a link to your DA page for people to check out the rest of your cosplay!

let me know

-Elly-

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<333 Loving my friends always <333
Sure no problem, just credit and link back to my DA.

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you are welcome ^^

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A blank notebook is only clean so that someone can come
and write on it...
Really appreciate the support!! :D

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Shall we hide this yogurt after having garliced it, or shall we hide it without garlicing it?
where are the kuroshitsuji photoshots taken??><

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I just love drawing fan arts.It's makes me happy at times~
Wished for a pEaCeFul and simPle life.~
National Museum, Singapore.

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nice photoshots!! luv the ones for kuroshitsuji~><

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I just love drawing fan arts.It's makes me happy at times~
Wished for a pEaCeFul and simPle life.~
Love your shots!~ :D
Shiro-kun~ Backstage photog! Wakakaka!

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Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
Thanks so much for the watch =D

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Can sins ever be forgiven?
...I've never tried

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:)

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hi awesome photos.....very very nice ^^
plz check out my gallery and yes hope y like anime....eh
Thanks. :)

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Thanks you too!
I like your photos!^^
Good luck!
Great gallery! Nice photos! *______*
Thanks. :)

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